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Legendary actor Richard Dreyfuss has some thoughts on Hollywood’s new diversity mandates

Via Not the Bee

Richard Dreyfuss is one of the great acting talents of the second half of the 20th century. He’s turned in some of the most iconic roles in cinema history: Roy Neary in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Matt Hooper in Jaws, Gordie Lachance in Stand By Me, many others.

He’s earned his stripes. When he speaks about acting, we should listen. Case in point: The new Academy Award guidelines which mandate that films “must meet certain [diversity] criteria for representation to be eligible for the Academy Award for best picture.”

Here’s what Dreyfuss thinks of them:

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The Feminist Lie

By Gerold

A life built upon a lie is doomed to failure. Feminism is such a lie. And, we see the consequences of this lie with the increasing frequency of sexual assaults.

I grew up in a small Northern Canadian mining town in the 1960s. We moved there when I was nine. You couldn’t drive to it because there was no road linking it. The only way in and out was either by plane or train. Automobiles weren’t necessary because everything was within walking distance. Consequently, not many people had cars.

Since we didn’t have a car, one of my duties was walking my sisters’ female friends home after they visited. I did it grudgingly, but I knew why it was necessary. The residential and mining construction boom meant that there were a lot of transient, single men, so a girl alone wasn’t safe. I realized this before I reached puberty. I knew this even before I understood sex.

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