sheenalgernonstjames:

nihilistic-void:

Can we please stop making scary shark movies? Sharks are pure sweet babies that don’t deserve this slander. They just have bad eyesight. Don’t be mean to them.

^^^^^^^^ the author of Jaws became a major activist to protect sharks, after he saw the damage that his book (and the movie it inspired) caused for them. He was a conservationist and everything, later in life. 

From an article about this: 

“The shark in an updated version could not be the villain,” Benchley wrote in “Oceans in Peril,” a piece for the 1995 Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibit titled Ocean Planet. He added that if he were to do it all over again, the shark “would have to be written as the victim, for, worldwide, sharks are much more the oppressed than the oppressors.