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About a week ago I read a review for the new Sam Raimi horror flick Drag Me To Hell<\/strong>. The description offered went something like:<\/p>\n Christine Brown is\u00a0 a loan officer at a bank. When she refuses to give an old Gypsy woman an extention on her loan, the woman curses her to be dragged to hell.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n My immediate thought was: Gypsy curses<\/em>? Really, Sam Raimi? Really<\/em>? This is the best you could come up with? I hate you.<\/p>\n Nick Mamatas explains it all here<\/a> much better than I could because he actually saw the movie. The bottom line is: that’s some seriously fucked up prejudice and stereotypes that should not be acceptable at all. AT ALL. It’s like the dark side to the whole Magical Negro thing — Magical VooDoo\/Witch Doctor\/Evil Gypsy Person who will curse you with their evil, heathan magic if you do something like steal their jewelry, deny them their loan, kill their daughters, or just look at them the wrong way.<\/p>\n This is not okay. It’s just not. Do people who write this shit even get that Gypsies are real people<\/a>? Do they think they’re some sort of made-up folktale people who only exist for our amusement? If so, what the fuck is wrong with those people?<\/p>\n Movie makers, TV creators, fiction writers: stop with the Gypsy curses, already. It is: NOT Okay.<\/p>\n\n
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