Originally posted by G.P.girl
white people have never had to feel that, they've always been the ones to discriminate against every other race there is in the world at some time or another in history. so they don't know what realy racism is. they just don't like being at the wrong end of a white person joke...JMO
I started to reply to this the other day, but got interrupted and never did.

That is patently untrue.

Ask the Irish who immigrated here at the time of the potato famine in Ireland, who, when they went to get jobs, were met with signs "No Irish Need Apply."

Ask any immigrant group who has faced the same discrimination.

Ask my grandfather, the son of new Swedish immigrants to America, who was looked down upon by siblings for marrying a "foreigner" - my grandmother, who was the daughter of French-Canadian immigrants to America. If they were still around, you could ask my grandmother and her siblings, who were looked down on in their Massachusetts hometown for being "dumb Cannucks" because their first language was French.

Ask the Huguenots, essentially thrown out of France because they were protestant, not Catholic.

Ask the Armenians, slaughtered by the Turks for, well, being Armenian.

History is full of "white of white" discrimination, and "black on black" discrimination. Ask the ghost of the victims of the Rwanda massacre of just a few years ago, killed brutally by a different ethnic group, both groups are "black." Ask any black American girl or buy turned down for a date because her or his skin was "too dark." Or made fun of for being "high yellow."

The movie looks pretty darned dumb, in any case, and I won't be paying to see it. It is peculiar that women playing men is not nearly as common, or regarded as a source of comedy in film or television, as men playing women. "Yenta" wasn't exactly a comedy, and the only other "women playing men" roles I can think of are "women playing men impersonating women" as in Victor/Victoria and more recently "Connie and Carla," which I'm also not planning on seeing.