It's SO upsetting to have a Chinese person portrayed by a Swede
Viewers have been warned about an 'outright offensive' character in the iconic movie Flash Gordon.
The British Board of Film Classification has added a warning about Ming the Merciless, advising the audience that the character played by the late Swedish actor Max von Sydow is a 'discriminatory stereotype'.
The 1980 movie was reclassified as a 12A earlier this year, and the BBFC said Ming is 'coded as an east Asian character' and would now be considered, 'dubious if not outright offensive'.
Earlier this year, Gone With The Wind was temporarily removed from HBO Max over concerns about its depiction of slavery.
On its website, the BBFC warns: 'An alien character is coded as 'Asian' due to his hair and make-up, although he is portrayed by a Caucasian actor.
'The character derives from the film's dated source material, but some viewers may find the depiction offensive.'
Apart from the fact that Ming is not a human being, but a member of an alien species, he doesn't look at all East Asian. He has a long, pale face, a long, thin nose, and blue or hazel eyes. Everyone knows East Asians have round, flat faces, small noses, and dark eyes.
A top UK law firm is erasing the words ‘he’ and ‘she’ from documents - to the horror of feminists
Julie Bindel
Seeking to embrace transgender ideology, the law firm Clifford Chance is removing all mention of ‘she’ and ‘he’ from its legal documents in favour of ‘they’.
In a development straight from some Orwellian nightmare, the firm has unveiled a computer program designed to ‘eliminate gendered language’.
Shouldn’t feminists like me be happy? After all, many law firms still begin letters ‘Dear Sir’ (rather than ‘Sir/Madam’) and have documents that use only ‘he’.
In a word, no. I am actually sickened and furious.
Far from showing a commitment to end the age-old sexism in our legal system, this is yet another example of the slow eradication of words and terminology to describe women in the law, business and society as a whole.
The change in terminology is not about being more female-friendly. Far from it. It is about pandering to trans activists.
Another change adopted by some firms is a requirement for staff to end their emails with ‘he/him’ or ‘she/her’ next to their signature, so the recipient knows how to reply.
On its website, Clifford Chance admits its decision could be seen as virtue-signalling but adds: ‘The reality is that, as well as being respectful of trans and non-binary identities, it is also a sensible and practical action to take.’
So there we have it. None of this is about being more inclusive of female staff or clients. Rather, it is aimed solely at appeasing pressure groups and their woke allies.
Such an approach is a cheap and easy win for Clifford Chance and potentially, a neat way to obscure any possible inequality. If all staff become ‘they’, it obscures how differently the sexes are treated as employees.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9060529/Why-save-word-woke-brigade.html
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