I think it is a compliment, actually. People get their boxers in a bunch over the slightest things these days! Save your wrath for local governments that want to infringe on home schooling. These kinds of petty crusades just validate the stereotypes.
Wilonsky is well known in Dallas media as a “sophisticated” journalist. Which means that he revels in filth and cultural decay.
The Dallas Observer is an “alternate lifestyles” type publication that has a couple of redeeming values, exposing the fraud that exists in Dallas City Hall politics.
Wilonsky is a lightweight. If he likes a movie then I very seldom even see it.
I saw the previews of the movie and thought, “Finally something that I can take my girls to see.” If he said that, maybe I was right.
I thought kids were homeschooled for that very reason, to keep them out of the environment of the public school system. I didn’t see the episode you’re talking about, but is the general impression that Nancy Drew is stupid and so only homeschoolers would like the movie because they, by extension, are stupid? Or that it is non-violent?
If the latter, it goes without saying that most parents who homeschool would prefer their child see a non-violent, family friendly picture. Am I mistaken? I’m not defending this guy, like I said I didn’t see it. But wondering what the insult was?
I think that was actually a compliment indicating the relative innocence of home-schooled kids.
Apologize for commenting without reading as many others may have already voiced this sentiment.
Grow some thicker skin.
I’m surprised anyone bothers to watch that show in the first place....
Seems like a compliment to me- not intended as one, but what the hey.
In fact it’s an endorsement, and I’ll be sure to get the kids to it, since we haven’t been able to go to the movie theater for want of something non-offensive (including intellectually) in a long time.
I suspect that the Nancy Drew movie doesn't contain enough filth to entertain a public-schooled 12 year old. (But I also doubt that was what Wilonsky was getting at.)
Liberals add enough faux-”I’m offended” and other forms of whining to the world. We don’t need to add our own.
I saw the trailor for this travesty; Nancy Drew it is not. An agendized version, that would be unrecognizable to its author? Definitely.
That, my friend, is a compliment!
It also sounds like a recommendation.
If Wilonksky hates it, I'm sure I'll enjoy it.
In Ebert and Roeper's world, the few kids they know go either to the government schools in a well-financed district, or more likely, to some sort of expensive private academy. It's not that they are trying to be jerks, they just don't know any better.
The best cure for blind prejudice is knowledge. Hopefully, these gentlemen can acquire some.
As a homeschooling parent, I have to say that you can be too sensitive and too quick to take offense. Yeah, he said it, and yeah, it was insulting, but who cares? He’s a film critic and nothing more.