The movie is brilliant... But Isn't that weird??

Racism will never make sense that way.

I think the point was that young, ignorant ladies of this time had children for the sake of leading a "perfect" little life with a complete family. They weren't prepared to deal with the reality of looking after them, however. You see this clearly in the book with poor Mae Mobley. Aibleen even goes as far as suggesting that Mae Mobley will be exactly the same herself when she grows up, despite how close she is to Aibleen, as it's just the way the majority of young white women were then.

I don't know if that was the reality, but that's what the book seemed to suggest.

It makes no sense. It never will. Sipsey (Cicely Tyson) said it best in Fried Green Tomatoes.

"Oh it don't make no kind of sense. Big ol' ox like Grady won't sit next to a colored child. But he eats eggs- shoot right outta chicken's ass!"

Black women used to nurse white babies back in slave days. A lot of YTs were just trifling back then.

It seriously made absolutely no sense that they will let them prepare their food, take care of their kids but be disgusted by the help. What the hell kind of retarded thinking was that?

So it was okay for them to touch what they eat, but they couldn't use their bathrooms for fear of disease? like, seriously wtf?

One ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them.

I see it as a class issue. Those of the upper classes were fine to let others do the nitty-gritty work of raising kids so they needn't soil their dainty fingers. The British were like this, looked down on the "help" though the racism was not so raw as we had here in the U.S. 1960s. What was important was maintaining superiority of station in life and circumstance.

In the early 1950s, I was for a few years when I was 3 to 6 years old, cared for by a very young black woman. In this case class was not an issue, my mother was no longer with a husband but taught high school and Frannie cared for me while she was gone. I loved and adored her. Frannie lived with us intimately, slept in the same house, ate at the same table and, of course, shared the plumbing. I was bereft and unconsolable when she later had to leave.

Trivial maybe, but I found it odd that they provided a separate bathroom for the maid because of the purported threat of disease but did not provide a sink for the maid to wash her hands after using. So much for hygiene.

Racism doesn't make sense; that's the fundamental principle of it!