This is ridiculous.

ewilliam · 2013-02-25T21:06:54+00:00

I got maybe 2/3 through it before the lizard part of my brain forced my hand to move the mouse up to the little "X" in the tab. That was brutally awful. One of the worst things I've had the displeasure to read in quite awhile.

One of the things I find most interesting (and very sad) about modern western society is that "Professional Complainer" is apparently an accepted career path. People who read deeply into every facet of society with one goal in mind: to find things to complain about...even if those things aren't really there, and instead are mere constructs that are the result of strained, cringe-worthy mental gymnastics.

I just feel bad for the author - life must really suck when seen through the eyes of a sad little professional complainer, where all humor is stripped away and reduced to some kind of supposed subterfuge to attack some "oppressed minority".

Stabeezy · 2013-02-25T20:45:52+00:00

I think this woman MAY need to take it down a notch. Grow up. It's called humor. Welcome to the real world.

5th_Law_of_Robotics · 2013-02-25T21:51:13+00:00

“Django Unchained,” he said, was “the story of a man fighting to get back his woman, who has been subjected to unthinkable violence. Or as Chris Brown and Rihanna call it, a date movie.” Relationships are complicated, and it can take a woman more than one attempt to leave an abuser. But if any woman who goes back is told that she has forfeited sympathy and can be written off with mockery—that the whole thing is now an amusing spectacle—then we’ll end up with more dead women.

Comedy is serious business.

That was the movie that, I'm guessing based on everything Tarantino has ever done, where scores of men were killed without a second thought, possibly to comedic effect and always violently?

But yeah, trivializing violence against women is a terrible thing.

How old is that? Quvenzhané Wallis, who was nominated for best actress, is nine years old. “To give you an idea how young she is, it’ll be sixteen years before she’s too old for Clooney,” MacFarlane said. (And what is too young?)

Seems like this was a slur against Clooney.

But the misogynistic low point involving Wallis was a tie between MacFarlane and the Onion. After a clip of her performance in “Beasts of the Southern Wild” played—in which she acted strong and independent and ready to yell back—she pumped her arms joyously. “Everyone else seems afraid to say it, but that Quvenzhané Wallis is kind of a cunt, right?” the Onion tweeted. The line was deleted an hour later. But rather than being an aberration, it was of a piece with the evening.

Was it of a piece? First off it's the onion. Second calling someone a cunt isn't the same as pointing out when they've posed nude.

Act assertively, and we’ll put you down. (As with the Salma Hayek thing, there may have been a racial strain to this one, which only makes it more enraging.) And anyway, when you grow up, we’ll just want you to show your boobs

But don't you dare suggest feminists lack a sense of humor.

What the women actually showed during the evening was that they worked a lot harder, and a lot smarter, than Seth MacFarlane.

And for 3/4s the pay probably!

Shirley Bassey sang “Goldfinger,” and Adele sang “Skyfall”—it’s notable that two of the better moments in the show involved Bond films—and Barbra Streisand was mesmerizing with “The Way We Were.”

So acceptable entertainment = women singing.

No jokes or anything like that. Just ladies singing.

What a dull life.

When Daniel Day-Lewis, accepting an Oscar for best actor that was presented by Meryl Streep, joked about the two of them having done a “straight swap,” scuttling a plan for him to play Margaret Thatcher and for her to be Lincoln, one wanted nothing more than to see each of them in those roles—not because having them dress in drag would be fodder for a future MacFarlane number but because of how Day-Lewis might convey Thatcher’s temporal power and the strength that Streep would bring to the role of a President.

Yeah I think your read may be off on that assessment.

Anyway that's as far as I could get.

LAMFF · 2013-02-25T20:17:00+00:00

Women like this "writer" make me more of a misogynist than any joke ever could.

Super_delicious · 2013-02-25T20:53:52+00:00

http://m.quickmeme.com/meme/3t4wjv/

gicstc · 2013-02-25T22:39:58+00:00

This is great example of Poe's Law

"Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of fundamentalism that someone won't mistake for the real thing."

And subsequently, the real thing can often seem like a parody.

callthebankshot · 2013-02-25T23:09:05+00:00

I'd love a detailed explanation of why that slam on Clooney is misogynistic.

GrundReport · 2013-02-25T23:27:31+00:00

I knew this article would end up on /r/MensRights. They got Seth MacFarlane, the guy who created a cartoon that showed a baby eating horse semen, to do the Oscars. He was just doing what he does best. I dunno what the hell they were expecting.

AskMeAboutUnicorns · 2013-02-26T00:31:50+00:00

I've seen people complain about much less in this subreddit.

gwolf100 · 2013-02-25T22:01:44+00:00

They do understand that he was taking a jab at Chris Brown right?

OztinL · 2013-02-25T21:44:23+00:00

I'm no fan of Seth but I think it's pleasant he reminds us that actors are really just glorified prostitutes at the end of the day.

Honestly - You have one of the most hackneyed "comedian" producers out there whose entire shtick is to be as offensive and boringly vulgar as possible and you're going to judge all male hosts based off his performance?

AndyAndrophile · 2013-02-25T21:51:13+00:00

This is why we laugh at you, feminists. Woman could weave a fucking misogynistic victimhood narrative out of a goddamn Teletubbies episode.

When I was younger I used to be worried about the censorious power of the perpetually offended fascist Christian right. Now, with their recent seemingly inexorable slide into irrelevance, I never would've imagined who would so eagerly take their place. In some ways I increasingly see the thoughtcrime panic-mongers of the far left feminists as actually being more sinister in a way. You could always make fun of the Christianist wackos and expect a laugh, but publicly mock the idea that feminism is all light and shining virtue and you're a Bad Person<sup>tm</sup>

Hanz0rz · 2013-02-25T20:49:17+00:00

Why would you show your breasts if you don't want people commenting? The moment you become famous your life isn't really private any more. Articles like this just show me more and more that the world is over sensitive and naive.

DavidByron · 2013-02-26T00:49:18+00:00

Feminists would say it was sexist whatever happened. That's what they do.

rogersmith25 · 2013-02-25T22:30:33+00:00

I regret clicking that link. The entire point of writing a ridiculous article like that is to generate clicks from people sharing it to say how ridiculous it is. Every frustrated view they generate from us is money in their pocket.

2013-02-26T02:43:12+00:00

Yes of course, if only Seth MacFarlane had stuck to making jokes about acceptable targets there would be no problem.

Oh, and as an aside, aren't the self-appointed "stronger sex" awfully senseitve and thin skinned? They ought to know what real abuse is, such as that inflicted by government agencies and enforcers on men.

MrStinky · 2013-02-26T03:23:45+00:00

This article should have been called "Good for the goose but not for the gander."

If a female host made all of those jokes -- nobody would have said shit about the "misssss-ogyny" but rather would have praised them for being "edgy" and "sardonic."

Instead we get this tripe

Seand0r · 2013-02-25T21:51:01+00:00

Maybe that’s reading too much into it.

Who says there's no truth in this article? I knew it was there before I saw it.

Vordreller · 2013-02-25T22:45:28+00:00

"Looking for nails on low water"

thejam15 · 2013-02-26T03:35:39+00:00

Isint this a news site? Rants are not news. His performance may have been crude but so what? We can say what we want as much as the writer say what she wants.

applepasta · 2013-02-26T04:52:11+00:00

The reason no one could appreciate the humor was because it was Seth Macfarlane. No humor to be found.

Modron · 2013-02-26T05:46:44+00:00

Oh, for goodness sake! That's just the nature of comedy. It will always poke fun at people in some way or another, and will target all kinds of people - not just one gender, or nationality, etc., and an attempt to appeal to all types of humour. It will always cross the line between humour and insult for certain groups/subgroups that a joke might be about. Just take it with a pinch of salt and learn to laugh at oneself, when one is a member of a particular group of people being made fun of! There is an element of truth in every joke, and people need to stop taking themselves so ruddy seriously. If the author found that insulting, she should watch British comedy! Just take Jimmy Carr as an example in this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JHnMyiWNk4

funnyfaceking · 2013-02-26T06:57:21+00:00

i can't help but think that if there were as much public condemnation of sexism against men, /r/mensrights would be singing a different tune

Crimson_D82 · 2013-02-26T11:14:52+00:00

In the words of Carlos Mencia "If you can take a dick, you can take a joke."

Irrelevant_Tosser · 2013-02-26T12:13:03+00:00

It seems to me that the far better reaction would be if the actresses had stood up in triumph as they were mentioned in the song. That would show women's pride in their own sexuality. Why is it such a big deal to show boobs, or to see them? Showing shame is what gives power to the shame, the actual act of showing your boobs in a movie has no shame in itself.

ThirdEy3 · 2013-02-26T14:30:40+00:00

I literally had a girl unfriend me on facebook, create lies about me that I said girls 'ask for it' when she used this and the 'statistic' that 1 in 4 women are/have been raped and I provided sources that disputed that notion....fucking hell

thereverendwho · 2013-02-26T14:31:12+00:00

Many commercials on T.V. portray men as idiots who need women to solve their problems for them, and men with their shirts off, but make a boob job at the Oscar's and you are sexist.

2013-02-26T15:42:21+00:00

This is actually hilarious. The media and the actors themselves seem to confuse themselves with the parts that they play or have played.

As soon as we stop paying attention to these media whores, the sooner they'll go away. Who the fuck watches the Oscars anyway? THAT is a circlejerk to behold.

ZorbaTHut · 2013-02-26T15:50:26+00:00

I'm really starting to wonder what the word "misogyny" means.

DerickBurton · 2013-02-26T23:15:02+00:00

I don't bother to follow most things in popular culture any more. Can't say I'm worse off for it tbh.

montesleight · 2013-03-03T08:34:42+00:00

I watched the oscars, regrettably, and this woman say a completely different show. Seth MacFarlane's whole career has been saying mean and somewhat crass jokes and this lady doesn't seem to know that. He's a funny guy but the oscars is a tough gig to have I would imagine.

The "We Saw Your Boobs (sung by gay men)" sketch was kinda stupid, but when i saw it I did think it was too sexist for that show. He put a Daniel Tosh joke on network tv basically, nothing to lose sleep over.Poking fun at the whole 'women providing boobs/sex to make up for not seemingly having value elsewhere' topic will always offend someone. The feminist extremists should spend more time spreading the idea that women don't have to "post tits of gtfo" because they have inherent value instead of attacking men. To them it's fucking mars vs venus and dogs and cats battling to the bitter end.

DeanOnFire · 2013-02-25T21:04:16+00:00

Honestly, the only thing that offended me at the Oscars was the amount of times Zero Dark Thirty was nominated. Seth was just being Seth, doing what made him rich and famous in the first place, much to the dismay of people like Amy Davidson.

TracyMorganFreeman · 2013-02-26T00:56:07+00:00

Taking a joke seriously is like reading a quote out of context: Any conclusion wrought from that starting point is axiomatically flawed.

Squirming_Coil · 2013-02-26T02:01:12+00:00

Par for the course from the newyorker

platypod · 2013-02-25T20:07:12+00:00

I agree, why we pay attention to these walking egos is beyond me.

Thievishmetal69 · 2013-02-26T00:53:21+00:00

My bet, MacFarlane took a shot at shithead feminists on comedic level the average person could relate to, and this is her way of getting back at him.

Petty opinion article is petty.

boddah87 · 2013-02-25T21:02:03+00:00

I think everything this woman said made perfect sense, and I am a man.

Title	This is ridiculous.
Author	JesseBrown
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Date	February 25, 2013 7:23 PM UTC (13 years ago)
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