That's a very reasonable way to look at it, and how I approach things as well. That's not sarcasm (I know it's hard to differentiate mocking and sarcasm online). For instance, for whatever reason I had Comedy Central on as background noise years ago, during their "lowest common denominator" phase, and heard a Larry…
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Some of the commenters are criticizing the author (I think she did fine) but can you imagine this written by Sims or Saraiya? Hoo boy…
He used to swear all the time. Remember his bit "what's the big fucking deal with this shitty-ass airline food?"
Our queen (never a king) shall be elected between the most oppressed and the most strident ally. May the best womyn wyn!
Finally, some common ground we can ALL agree on!
I think his larger point was college-aged audiences, some as young as his daughter but up to 30.
His daughter had every right to slap her grandmother right in her sexist, heteronormative face. Fuck you, Gammy!
Did you tell her that paper comes from dead trees?
It might sound like "I should be able to say whatever I want without people getting offended. People don't have the right to get offended by my words and actions. I get to decide what are valid reasons to be offended and not the audience," but it often can be "I can't even explore this topic," or "you're not…
Justine Sacco was so fucked. She made a joke that, if Sarah Silverman had made it, would've been understood as being satirical. Since she was a nobody… well, maybe next lifetime, Justine!
To be fair, I hate oversensitive thinkpiecers as much as the next guy, but I can still see casting Aryan Emma Stone as someone half-Asian was completely stupid and 100% avoidable.
Oh don't you worry… the backlash will come. It comes for us all.
Start with tumblr, shitlord.
Were they attacking him, though?
Seinfeld still holds up twenty years after it was on the air?! *gasps so hard I faint dead away*
And Jeremy Piven has more hair now! He's aging in reverse!
My cat's breath smells like cat food.
Is he doing that? I remember Chris Rock saying much of the same thing.
For a lot of people the extended unemployment is more time to post on tumblr.