To the Editor:
In response to Robert Dapice's letter that appeared in your January 13 edition, I just want to say something. That part in "Braveheart" when the king throws the homosexual lover of the prince out the window was the funniest, most entertaining part of the whole movie, and I think anyone who doesn't find it entertaining is way too sensitive and failed to understand the movie.
Not only was that scene thoroughly entertaining in a cinematic sense, it was also effective in conveying the underlying social feelings of the era, that homosexuals were targets of abuse and slander, a sentiment that unfortunately has its advocates in even today's highly over-sensitized society.
The lover of the prince was a jerk in the movie. Whether he was gay or straight, short or tall, black or white, does not really matter. The fact is he was a jerk, and his death provided some entertainment for us all.
I personally was not laughing because a homosexual had been murdered; I was laughing because a jerk had been murdered.
I think that the people in this school are generally way too sensitive and read into things way too much (particularly things that appear in the school's publications).
If people would just lighten up and have a few laughs once in a while, maybe this would be a better place and we wouldn't have to listen to all of these cry-babies all of the time.
I know I am not as eloquent as your writers, but I feel my letter speaks for a large and growing part of the student body. In closing, let me say that I think the Dartmouth Film Society's next film should include that clip from "Braveheart" played over and over again, so we can all go and have a few laughs, something that is lacking at this school.
