Hey folks! It's me Michael Bach, your Diversity Dude, and this is Monday Morning Musings.
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Hello there and happy...
Tuesday.
Yes, I know it's not Monday, but the show is called "Monday Morning Musings".
It's not like if you watch Entertainment Tonight in the afternoon that they change the name.
Think about that.
Anyway, happy Tuesday!
... because yesterday was Thanksgiving, here in Canada.
So, Happy Thanksgiving if you're here in Canada.
If you're not and you're watching this, you missed Thanksgiving.
It was pretty good, so there you go.
But I wanted to talk about a movie I watched last night called 'Boys in the Band.'
My husband and I watched "Boys in the Band."
It's on Netflix.
It is a revival, so this is a remake, of the original 1968 play, by Mart Crowley
and it was made into a movie in 1970, and it has now been remade,
and the play has been done many times over the years,
but the movie has been remade with just a completely star-studded cast:
people like Jim Parsons, and Zachary Quinto, and Matt Bomer, and Andrew Rannells, and and and...
And it's amazing!
It's a great cast.
And it's a great movie, and I feel like I need to give you a warning:
If you're thinking that it's going to be all up and cheery and fun, it's not.
It's a bit of a bummer because it was a play that...
It examined the toxicity of the queer community in the late 1970s,
and as I watching it, I kept thinking about how so little has changed
and how we could extrapolate further that this is going on.
Not just within the LGBTQ2+ communities, but within any community,
and how tragic it is that we spend so much time trying to cut each other apart and hurt one another,
the people that we care about.
I'm not talking about politicians, or I'm not talking about people that genuinely don't like each other.
I'm talking about people who are friends,
who are family, who love one another, and yet they're constantly trying to hurt one another.
And you see it in the simplest of things where... women referring to other women as 'bitches' and 'hoes', and worse.
And you see it within particular ethnocultural groups where they are reclaiming words that have traditionally been pejoratives,
but they're still using those words.
Like the N-word within the Black community.
And as I was watching it, I just felt this immense sadness
because I've done it.
I remember friends that I've had in the past where, you know, you go to these parties,
you go hang out with friends and you just find yourself attacking one another and being cruel to one another
and how wrong that is
and if you really care about one another, why are you trying to hurt one another?
And it just got me thinking that we just need to be nicer as a society,
and particularly now...
this COVID thing...
we need to be nicer to one another.
We need to be kinder and more deliberate in our verbiage.
So, something to think about.
Do check out 'Boys in the Band', available on Netflix.
Fantastic production.
Just a masterful production.
But be prepared to think.
There you go.
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I think that's all.
There's probably other things I should've said, but whatever.
Have a fantastic week
and I will see you on Monday, next week, for another episode of Monday Morning Musings.
Bye!
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