>then having to update it based on a silly criticism.

He didn't have to update it. He chose to update it.

>Thankfully we have the PC crowd around to tell Mr. Lee what movies are his actual top films.

Or you know, we just infer that his most recent statement of his opinion is most likely to be representative?

That's how the PC thing operates. "You don't have to revise your opinion. We'll keep piling on the guilt and doubletalk meantime. I'm sure you'll make the right decision, because you're not a bad person right?"

And equally, the opposition says "He changed his stated opinion[0] after a social justice flavoured criticism? There's absolutely no way he could agree with them, so he must be lying out of fear!"

I prefer to assume people are telling the truth about their opinions until shown evidence to the contrary.

[0] EDIT: Which, incidentally, was never asserted to be complete, and indeed solicited suggestions for improvement.

Its clear that both are true, to some degree. He clearly overlooked good movies directed by women, guilty. He clearly responded to criticism and overrode his original judgement to satisfy them. Its never black and white (unless talking about race; then its always black and white!)

>He clearly responded to criticism and overrode his original judgement to satisfy them.

Why is it clear that he "overrode" his original judgement by adding films, rather than simply being reminded of some he hadn't considered?

>The films that he was "reminded of" all happened to be directed by women

Well yes that's my point? I'm saying that on seeing that comment he thinks "Films by women? Oh that reminds me of X, Y and Z! They should be on the list too!"

Its not clear he hadn't considered them.

Maybe he accidentally left such films off his list, realized his mistake when it was pointed out, and corrected it.

Why assume the worst?

>Why assume the worst?

Who is assuming the worst? I'm not the one who's claiming that the guy deliberately left women off the list. I'm assuming he sat down, thought of a bunch of movies and made a list. It probably never crossed his mind that there were no women.

And, honestly, I have no idea why it even matters. Had it not been pointed out to me, I'd have never even thought about the gender (am I allowed to say that word?) of the directors. It seems irrelevant to the subject matter.

Who is claiming that he deliberately left women off the list?

Isn't it worse if it wasn't deliberate? Then, either he unconsciously marginalizes women. Or his first list was right, and now its patronizing to pad the list with lesser movies because equality.

Everybody is biased. The average person is blissfully unaware. Better people are aware and attempt to compensate. The worst of us are aware and embrace it.

We all do things like this. It says nothing about us, other than that we're human. Our character is shown by how we deal with it, not by whether we do it at all.

That. Exactly. This is a regular guy, doing his best to behave better. All the rest of the discussion is just hot air.

Then why do I call that 'worse'? Because its actually harder to change when you don't realize you need to change.

Considering that Lee's reaction was to essentially say, "Oops, thanks for pointing this out, here's some more," I'd say he's doing OK. But somehow everybody's losing their mind over it.