I still don't get the offended thing. It is not my job to prevent other people from feeling negative things. If they want to be offended, they will be, and there is something in them that validates that feeling. If they didn't need that, they would not be offended. It's about time people started taking responsibility for their own feelings rather than projecting responsibility onto others, including the media, "role models", peer groups etc.

As for celebrating illiteracy, look at any mainstream film where the "cool" people shun education and celebrate "coolness", success by diminishing others, etc. This is a fact of the media. Anyone who celebrates education is labelled a nerd, an outcast, etc. Now, people can either accept that or reject that, and in doing so choose whether they should be offended or not.

If the media is to be blamed for promoting prejudice, it is the consumption of that media which validates it. Just because some movie robots are interpreted by some as being racially prejudiced (which I personally did not see until I heard others complaining) does not mean I am going to be prejudiced against African-Americans, gangstas or whatever they were trying to be.

I saw Mudflap as a hero, resilient and competent, for the way he punished Devastator, and the rest of his character was bluster and role-playing, like most people do. Sure, these aren't real people who made this choice, they in my view the Twins represent real people who make that choice.

Forcing people to change their views or take responsibility for what you are feeling can be just as offensive as the reasons for the offence taken by the first person.

Having said that, I too am disappointed in the way the movies are turning out, but the comics have shown oppressive, genocidal Autobots for some time, and this was, after all, a "blockbuster", not a fan film.