Bubble Boy

[SPOOFE]

But Mrs Vetter calling for a boycott smacks of censorship to me.

I didn’t know that Mrs. Vetter was the Dictator of the United States, and had sent her stormtroopers to destroy all copies of this movie and execute everyone involved with it…

[Lamia]

*Originally posted by Kamandi *
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Agreed. But Mrs Vetter calling for a boycott smacks of censorship to me. Someone who may get some benefit out of this movie (ha!) may avoid it after hearing that she and others are offended by it. Not strictly censorship, but the result is the same. **

Uh, no it’s not. It would be censorship if Mrs. Vetter stopped the film from being made. It might be censorship if she got the film changed, depending on the circumstances. But all she is doing is refusing to watch the movie, and asking others to do the same if they agree with her reasoning. You don’t believe that people should be forced to watch Bubble Boy if they don’t want to, do you?

[Rilchiam]

*Originally posted by Kamandi *
As I said before, I completely agree that a film can be made that is disrespectful to the Vetter family. I disagree that this is that film. Since nobody has actually seen it yet, I believe that it is premature at best for Mrs Vetter to call for a boycott. Her asking for a title change simply because it refers to her son is ridiculous. She doesn’t own the phrase “Bubble Boy”. If anything, considering the phrase itself sounds vaguely perjorative, I’d thing she’d want to distance herself and her family from it as much as possible. Did she call her son “Bubble Boy” when he was alive?

This is everything I wanted to say, but better.