| You cannot impose today's morals, culture, and political correctness on art that was created a decade ago, two decades ago, or 50 or 100 years ago. What you can do is to create new art that reflects today's values. Should we criticize Sleeping Beauty because she marries a Prince because he rescues her? Should we criticize Eliza Doolittle for allowing a man to make her into his perfect woman? As everyone points out, this is a fable depicting one kind of culture? How many musicals and plays have there been in the past that involved love at first sight, and we didn't nit pic? There have been criticisms of Once on This Island for how it depicts race, gender, and station in life, but sometimes political correctness can be taken to absurd extremes. Political correctness should be a guide as to how we live our lives respectfully, without offending others. It should not be a means whereby we alter history or art to fit our current beliefs. |
