I don't think she's pretty, not in a leading-lady kind of way. I mean, she's not ugly, but she was in all these Clint Eastwood movies, and she's always supposed to be the one that everyone wants. It does help that she's usually the only one who's clean, and that the only other woman onscreen with her is usually Ruth Gordon. But still.

 

People always tried to rape her. No matter what movie it was. People were always getting raped in Clint Eastwood movies, which I always found rather disturbing. I mean, it makes my skin crawl to think about. Maybe that's why I don't feel bad when Clint Eastwood shoots them in the head with a .45 300-grain wadcutter. Except that one movie where Sondra Locke killed them all herself and Clint Eastwood had to arrest her. Which I guess is supposed to be like, ironic or something, like when he played an entymologist and drove a VW Bug. Except that I just made that up. But it would be ironic.

 

I don't like things that show rape or talk about it or even suggest it, the same way I hate to see people hurt like that scene in Robocop where those gang guys shoot Peter Weller's hands off, or that part in Terminator 2 where he walks naked into a biker bar and starts killing people. I guess because they're bikers it's supposed to be ok, but even though they were probably mostly scumbags, I still don't think it's ok to just walk naked into a place and start killing people.

 

But movies like Death Wish, where Charles Bronson kills people we know are guilty, don't bother me as much. Because those people are guilty and we know they're guilty and they deserve it, or anyway in movieland they do. And anyway they get to die quick. I guess I figure folks like Jeff Goldbloom ought to know better than to go breaking into people's homes and terrorizing them, and if Charles Bronson comes after him later with a gun, he's getting what's coming to him. That's how it would work if they were Klingons.

 

Basically, I don't like people who are mean. Like the other day, I went to a convenience store and the clerk there got in a big stupid argument with a customer. When I got out of my car I saw this woman next to me in a fight with her drunk ugly boyfriend and then she went inside and kind of threw her money on the counter and the cashier got all mad and they started a bitchfight. And there was totally no reason for it.

 

I mean, I'm not always nice to everyone, but I do believe that everyone should make every effort to be nice to me.

 

But I hate to see people hurt, especially for no reason and especially when someone does it on purpose, and especially when someone does it on purpose because they just like it. I guess it kind of falls in the same category as those jerks in high school who tried to make themselves feel like big shots by putting everyone else down. Sometimes I insult people, too, but I'm mostly just kidding around.

 

Sort of.

 

I really really hate it in movies when dogs get hurt, like in that John Wayne movie Big Jake when that dog got hacked with a machete, or in the first Jaws movie when that guy's dog disappeared from the beach. I don't know why it bothered me less that John Wayne killed a dozen people in that movie, or that all those folks got eaten by that shark. I guess because I figure  those people lived in the Old West and they knew the risks, and those other people should have at least known the risks of swimming, especially that one that went skinny-dipping alone at midnight. But the dogs didn't ask for any of that. They were just doing what dogs do. It just didn't seem right.