Mary McNamara: Despite what you may have heard, no one's trying to make white men feel guilty for being white men

Just before Christmas I received an email from a gentleman who was none too pleased by a column I had written about "Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood." His was not the first such response I had received - when the piece, which was actually about what I consider toxic nostalgia, ran in July, my mailbox and Twitter feed overflowed with missives from men expressing their belief that I am a moron, a racist (toward white people), a sexist (toward men) and, in a few cases, descriptors that cannot be reprinted in this paper.

For the record, this gentleman did not call me any names. He did say he had stopped his subscription because of writers "like you ... who made me feel guilty EVERY SINGLE TIME I read a review of a film that featured, wait for it, WHITE PEOPLE."

Again, this is not the first