Comments on: Return to Mammyville & Godless Women https://the-orbit.net/blackskeptics/2012/01/30/return-to-mammyville-godless-women/ Just another The Orbit site Tue, 03 Apr 2012 05:41:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.6 By: arnold clavio https://the-orbit.net/blackskeptics/2012/01/30/return-to-mammyville-godless-women/#comment-554 Tue, 03 Apr 2012 05:41:46 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/blackskeptics/?p=193#comment-554 arnold clavio…

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]]> By: ik https://the-orbit.net/blackskeptics/2012/01/30/return-to-mammyville-godless-women/#comment-553 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 18:09:28 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/blackskeptics/?p=193#comment-553 I have heard that, in it’s time, the book was much more progressive than the movie is nowadays. Is this true?

]]> By: Critical Mass Progress | Return to Mammyville & Godless Women https://the-orbit.net/blackskeptics/2012/01/30/return-to-mammyville-godless-women/#comment-552 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:01:57 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/blackskeptics/?p=193#comment-552 […] var addthis_product = 'wpp-261'; var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true};Share|From Sikivu Hutchinson at Black Skeptics Blog: The Help, the latest entry in the white woman pining-for-Mammy-atonement series, has garnered […]

]]> By: Scrawny Kayaker https://the-orbit.net/blackskeptics/2012/01/30/return-to-mammyville-godless-women/#comment-551 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:42:18 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/blackskeptics/?p=193#comment-551 My spousal critter brought The Help home a couple of weeks ago, and we watched it with our 11-year-old. That’s probably the best you could say of it: a sugar-coated way to introduce white tweens to Jim Crow.

]]> By: Juniper Shoemaker https://the-orbit.net/blackskeptics/2012/01/30/return-to-mammyville-godless-women/#comment-550 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:13:52 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/blackskeptics/?p=193#comment-550 Count me in as another person who has never had any desire to read this book or see this film because she’s sick of Hollywood stereotypes of black American women. It strikes me as bizarre that The Help should be a bestseller in 2012, but maybe that’s my optimism talking again.

]]> By: Miki https://the-orbit.net/blackskeptics/2012/01/30/return-to-mammyville-godless-women/#comment-549 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:53:01 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/blackskeptics/?p=193#comment-549 Great post. And I’m just going to add…

..I HATE these kinds of movies. I hated them when I was Christian and I hate them as an atheist. They’re always patronizing in their simultaneous condenscension and pity.

]]> By: F https://the-orbit.net/blackskeptics/2012/01/30/return-to-mammyville-godless-women/#comment-548 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:06:08 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/blackskeptics/?p=193#comment-548 I kind of wondered about this film. I assumed it would be the same old tripe, but I can’t pay enough attention to H-wood long enough to check. So thank you for the commentary.

And the prayer. That is my kind of prayer.

]]> By: Alyson Miers https://the-orbit.net/blackskeptics/2012/01/30/return-to-mammyville-godless-women/#comment-547 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:57:57 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/blackskeptics/?p=193#comment-547 In reply to blackskeptics.

Idiot author didn’t even give the character a different name from her real-life inspiration. That takes narcissism, to think no one will notice.

]]> By: blackskeptics https://the-orbit.net/blackskeptics/2012/01/30/return-to-mammyville-godless-women/#comment-546 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:47:13 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/blackskeptics/?p=193#comment-546 In reply to fredericksparks.

The book was one big white woman’s burden thinly veiled autobiographical apologia, replete with “authentic” black dialect from the author’s upbringing as a privileged white girl pining for her long lost wronged mammy. Zero evocation of the sexual violence black women have suffered working as caregiver domestics in even the most “benevolent” homes; nor was there any deep substantive engagement with black women’s political resistance to Jim Crow terrorism and apartheid in the very community and time period the novel was set in.

]]> By: Alyson Miers https://the-orbit.net/blackskeptics/2012/01/30/return-to-mammyville-godless-women/#comment-545 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:43:43 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/blackskeptics/?p=193#comment-545 I believe that the acting in The Help is excellent. The story, on the other hand…

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