While I laughed here and there, Think Like A Man felt Racist as Hell

[SuikodenII]

Think Like A Man was a surprisingly OK movie, for a romance movie, anyway. My only problem...the entire premise that black men had no idea a popular BOOK, written by a popular black comedian, selling out everywhere...EVEN EXISTED. Even in the "pre-internet" age, how can this be possible? What kind of message is this movie trying to portray us as, only knowing of popular culture if it's in a movie, video game, television program, sports, or music CD? However, you put it in a book, well it somehow proves invisible to the black man (even in a book store, ) since apparently WE CANT, excuse me, DONT READ.


But now I get it, since this movie was written by two white guys, and when you have white people writing for black characters it always comes off, intentionally or not, as degrading and/or completely misinformed. As Ice Cube said in Boyz, "I CAN read, bytch!" With all that said, still recommended for silly laughs w/ Kev Hart, but I have some serious problems with this premise.

 

[Majestic Pape]

I got no problem with the idea of men not knowing about a book written for women.

 

[SuikodenII]

I got no problem with the idea of men not knowing about a book written for women.

I have no problem with them not READING it as it's intended for women, but to not know it exists...

 

[Grifter]

I didn't know the book existed till I heard my mom talking about it.

 

[Mowgli]

I didn't know the book existed till I heard my mom talking about it.

Me either. But i dont watch tv or listen to the radio.

 

[Majestic Pape]

I have no problem with them not READING it as it's intended for women, but to not know it exists...

To be honest, I never knew the Hunger Games existed until a week after the movie came out.

 

[duck]

Think Like A Man was a surprisingly OK movie, for a romance movie, anyway. My only problem...the entire premise that black men had no idea a popular BOOK, written by a popular black comedian, selling out everywhere...EVEN EXISTED. Even in the "pre-internet" age, how can this be possible? What kind of message is this movie trying to portray us as, only knowing of popular culture if it's in a movie, video game, television program, sports, or music CD? However, you put it in a book, well it somehow proves invisible to the black man (even in a book store, ) since apparently WE CANT, excuse me, DONT READ.


But now I get it, since this movie was written by two white guys, and when you have white people writing for black characters it always comes off, intentionally or not, as degrading and/or completely misinformed. As Ice Cube said in Boyz, "I CAN read, bytch!" With all that said, still recommended for silly laughs w/ Kev Hart, but I have some serious problems with this premise.

so being unaware of the existence of a book makes something racist these days?

 

[jwinfield]

You're putting way too much thought into this.

 

[Fillerguy]

 

[Return of the Jedi]

I dunno, did anybody actually know this book existed? I'm a white male and I never heard of it until I heard of the movie.

 

[JMurder]

*sits back and watches this thread turn on it's creator*

 

[Kemyran]

I have no problem with them not READING it as it's intended for women, but to not know it exists...

Grasping for straws. I'm a black man. I literally didn't know sh!t about this book until the movie came out. And the fact that these characters didn't either isn't even remotely something I would call racism. There was clearly no ill will intended by anyone involved with this movie. Its a simple plot point, nothing more and nothing less.

This thread was poorly conceived and has a tinge of racism in and of itself. Oh, so because Steve Harvey is black and a "popular" comedian, every black male on Earth knows about each of his literary endeavours?

If anything... the only point you can really make about this movie on that level is the absurdity of a book "selling out everywhere" in 2012. Bookstores are fukking closing. Get it on Kindle/Nook/iPad/etc... there is literally a neverending supply of all books.

 

[trick]

very few people read nowadays. grasping for straws here.

 

[villain]

what book are ya'll talkin about

 

[Golayitdown]

Now that u mention it, why the pages of the book gotta be white!?!