It is reported that three different labor unions representing over 80,000 flight attendants are calling for a boycott of the movie Flightplan, starring Jodie Foster (eonline.com). The movie apparently paints flight attendants in a bad light which, the unions contend, is thoroughly unacceptable. What a bunch of crybabies!!!
First of all, I don't even care to watch this movie, nor am I some freakish fan of Jodie Foster or other person that is in this movie. But what stirs me is how any group can be so thin-skinned about the plot of a FICTITIOUS movie that they feel that they should ask for a nationwide boycott! I'm not even sure what shocks me... that we, as a society, have not changed from the days of banning books because of their 'potential' impact on the masses... or that unions have become so irrelevant in most of today's workforce that they have been driven to complain about a movie rather than worker's healthcare and such.
The simple fact is that you can pretty much plug in any movie or videogame or book or whatever in this report, and find some national or international group belly aching about insensitivity...
lemme hear all your thoughts.
First of all, I don't even care to watch this movie, nor am I some freakish fan of Jodie Foster or other person that is in this movie. But what stirs me is how any group can be so thin-skinned about the plot of a FICTITIOUS movie that they feel that they should ask for a nationwide boycott! I'm not even sure what shocks me... that we, as a society, have not changed from the days of banning books because of their 'potential' impact on the masses... or that unions have become so irrelevant in most of today's workforce that they have been driven to complain about a movie rather than worker's healthcare and such.
The simple fact is that you can pretty much plug in any movie or videogame or book or whatever in this report, and find some national or international group belly aching about insensitivity...
lemme hear all your thoughts.
