C'mon on Guys, Stop it
Friends, I have a serious issue to bring up with you. With the Titular Head film festival coming up, I want to bring to your attention an issue that has long been overlooked on this campus for some time. Of course, I am referring to the feelings of the filmmakers.
For too long I've sat idly by as my classmates verbally attack any film that isn't perfect. And while the audience thinks it's all fun and games and that its “cool” to say all those mean things, it's not. It's mean, and you're all a bunch of mean bullies. Yeah, that's right I said it. I can't believe people would be so immature in Grinnell. I knew I should have gone to Oberlin.
C'mon, guys, stop the cruel heckling; it's not funny. Those boos and chants calling people stupid really hurt my – I mean people's feelings. Let's reverse the situation and pretend that you made the movie.
Think about if you were the one that spent a whole Saturday filming a movie that you and your friends thought would be hilarious but really makes no sense to anyone outside of you and your friends. You would probably get real excited for Tit Head. The emcee introduces your movie and you can't wait to share your hilarious story with campus. And then suddenly you're in the fetal position crying in the Harris bathroom asking for your mother with the faint sound of booing in the background. You don't feel too big now, huh.
Let me tell you the story of one Grinnell student who submitted a Tit Head film that wasn't received well. To protect his identity let's call him Duck Billups. Now after his film was ridiculed by an unforgiving public he went back to his room and cried himself to sleep. The next day he was so depressed that he ate 6 pints of Ben and Jerry's while going through another box of tissues. Do you people have any idea how expensive all of that is, or how long it takes to burn those calories off? I hope all of you are proud of yourselves.
It's not just the many hurt individuals that bothers me, either. It's that your behavior is totally unacceptable for the type of upstanding young folks you are. I am very disappointed in you.
I know a lot of you are thinking that Tit Head won't be any fun without the soul-crushing heckling. Well, you are wrong. You can still heckle at Tit Head. Just slightly change the message of your heckling. Let me give you some examples. If you see a less than stellar film and you want to tell the filmmaker that they “suck at life,” think instead about telling the filmmaker they made a, “very creative film.” Or, if you wanted to say that the filmmaker should have gone to a state school, why not instead say, “Way to give it a sporting chance, old boy.”
Try offering some constructive criticism for a change. Tit head is supposed to be a supportive, nurturing environment. Maybe you didn't know that because you were too busy booing last year.
I want you all to take one good long look at yourselves. You all suck. But you don't have to suck as much, and all it takes is a little kindness. You may think the best part of Tit Head is throwing beer cans at the stage but you can do that any weekend.
The magic of Tit Head lies in laughing with people, not at them. Titular Head can still be a lot of fun, and all we have to do is be a little nicer to one another. And this year had better be better. I don't want to resort to this but if you guys are mean again this time I am totally telling.
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