Members Scotty Posted March 24, 2010 Members Share Posted March 24, 2010 Seems some Irish-Americans are upset over the St. Patrick's Day episode of OLTL. Link: http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/One-Life-to-Live-has-dishonor-of-first-ever-PADDIES-Award-88930077.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members YRBB Posted March 24, 2010 Members Share Posted March 24, 2010 soap opera -- or is that "daytime drama"? Talk about prejudice. Pot meet kettle. Btw, they expect Roxy to be politically correct? How obvious they have no idea what they were watching. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Juliajms Posted March 24, 2010 Members Share Posted March 24, 2010 Really? I'm Irish American and I just don't get their point. What did Roxy's scenes have to do with stereotyping or bigotry? Is Roxy even Irish? I mean, maybe I would see their point if only Irish characters were playing drunks, but I don't think that is the case at all. All kinds of people use St. Patrick's day as an excuse to get drunk and drink green beer. Not much news in that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members YRBB Posted March 24, 2010 Members Share Posted March 24, 2010 They obviously have not been around New York --or anywhere for that matter-- on St. Patrick's day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members All My Shadows Posted March 24, 2010 Members Share Posted March 24, 2010 Placing the blame on OLTL is kinda silly. If they want to take down St. Patrick Day/Irish stereotypes, they've picked the wrong place to start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Scotty Posted March 24, 2010 Author Members Share Posted March 24, 2010 Same here...I'm part Irish (my paternal grandmother's grandparents immigrated from Ireland to the U.S. in the 1860's), and I wasn't offended by it either. And it's just typical Roxy behavior. Apparently, they don't regularly watch the show, or else they would know that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vee Posted March 24, 2010 Members Share Posted March 24, 2010 Oh, my God. I have Irish blood and I did not give a [!@#$%^&*]. I thought it was hilarious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Scotty Posted March 24, 2010 Author Members Share Posted March 24, 2010 ITA....and what's next? Blond people becoming upset? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Juliajms Posted March 24, 2010 Members Share Posted March 24, 2010 Yeah, I just don't see how Americans celebrate St. Patrick's day as any sort of stereotype against Irish people. It's a holiday used by all kinds of Americans as an opportunity to get drunk and have some fun. In Ireland people may use it as a day to go to mass and such, but that's not how Americans roll. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members marceline Posted March 24, 2010 Members Share Posted March 24, 2010 LOL! Talk about a reversal of fortunes. This show can't please anybody anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Scotty Posted March 24, 2010 Author Members Share Posted March 24, 2010 I guess some people see it in sort of the same way that certain people view Halloween. But it's all done in the name of fun....it's not like Americans are intentionally trying to piss off the Irish or anything like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Juliajms Posted March 24, 2010 Members Share Posted March 24, 2010 I think they lost me when they said they've never seen a worse case of bigotry. Please! What bigotry? Maybe they should have just pointed out that the way St.Patrick's Day is celebrated in the U.S. is not traditional and given us an overview of the traditional celebration and the reason for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members All My Shadows Posted March 24, 2010 Members Share Posted March 24, 2010 They've obviously never watched the episode of Family Guy where Peter and the Griffins go to Ireland to find his birth father. Like, when the airplane lands, the runway is COVERED in empty beer bottles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members chyti Posted March 24, 2010 Members Share Posted March 24, 2010 It is obvious that the guy doesn't watch the show his wife does was upset by it and pointed it out to him and he in turn became upset about it, yet either way it was a stereotypical scene depicting how some people preceive Irish people as heavy drinkers. For someone not familiar with the show and just catching a glance it does look bad, doesn't matter if you are Irish and it didn't bother you it did this Irish man and his wife. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Juliajms Posted March 24, 2010 Members Share Posted March 24, 2010 But so what? Just because this guy is offended that does not mean he has a logical argument and we all have to agree that those scenes stereotyped Irish people. I have yet to hear anyone explain where the bigotry in those scenes lie? This guys argument was incredibly weak. Who were the Irish people we saw drinking heavily? Has Roxie ever been identified as Irish? I've been watching this show for years and have never heard her identify as Irish. Yes, the scenes were cheesy and OTT, but that does not make for a case of bigotry. If any group of people being shown drinking on St. Patrick's Day is bigotry (never mind the worse case of bigotry someone has ever seen)then the word has been expanded to the point of being meaningless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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