Born Wrong

I’ll never forget at the beginning of my freshman year at Columiba my dad sat me down and basically questioned all my choices that I had just made (and paid for). He asked me, in so many words, if I really thought I was going to make it in Hollywood. At the time, I was going to school for directing film and he argued that everyone in Hollywood was male and Jewish and since I wasn’t either one of those there wasn’t any way I was going to make it. His argument made me laugh a little, because I knew I wasn’t born wrong I still had to the skills and the drive to make it but for him my goals were simply out of reach. When it comes to the arguments of race and class and gender and individualism in today’s society, I just think that since everything is supposedly socially constructed then all I have to do is construct an image of myself to other people that I am qualified and fully able to do what is asked of me. I’m not going to let some theory that since I’m not the right race I’m not going to be able to succeed. To me there is no such thing as being “born wrong.”