Breitbart Stupid And Terrible Again, This Time About Sex, Innocence, Race And Shirley Temple
We always kinda forget that Breitbart has an entertainment section, because the only thing that ever goes on in it is culture scolding or promoting those terrible Christian movies no one will ever see, but today they weighed in on Shirley Temple's death so we thought we'd go over and LOL at it. We were not disappointed. Well, we were disappointed in that it is stupid and terrible, but we were not disappointed in that it met our expectations for stupidly terrible Breitbartian things, so yay us, maybe?
First, some completely confused thoughts about race!
Temple was innocent enough that when she danced with the legendary black dancer Bill Robinson in The Little Colonel, no one gave a hoot that the interracial teaming was a watershed moment.
We're not even sure what this means. Does he mean that the moment passed without notice, because that was definitely not the case. It was controversial enough that the scene had to be cut before the movie was shown in the South. That's not racial transcendence! Is he saying that another, less innocent lady, would have caused more of a stir if she had touched a black man? Help us out here, Breitbart minion.
No sexualizing children in the 30s? Try the Baby Burlesks - Miss Temple's first films.
I know very little about the folkways of Facebook. I do have an account, but I only log into it every month or so, and I only do that because I have a couple of relatives who have decided that FB is the only way they are ever going to communicate.
Nevertheless, even I can figure out what this situation means, as (obviously) can you. Your question isn&#039;t really &quot;what does this mean?&quot;, but &quot;any ideas how I should handle this?&quot;. Being 66, and pretty much post-relationship and get-off-my-lawn, my first suggestion would simply to be frank. After all, the reality must actually be apparent to <i>him</i>; he&#039;s just in denial.
As an alternative, persuade someone else to give him the news. They can mention it to you, also, so if you have to discuss the matter, you can cite the bad-news-deliverer. Acknowledging bad news is less stressful than supplying it.