Not really. I just don’t think that’s a very portable joke and generally telling someone they are unappealing in that way generally is not taken as anything other than a “fat uggo” slam. It’s like anything else - the host (and even us commenters) don’t get to control what message is received and the joke is imprecise…

There’s a difference between a professional stand-up comic on stage with their insults ready and an improv comic that thinks he’s there for an interview.

There is always a difference between a joke made at ones own expense and a joke made by someone else at yours.

I can’t but helping ultimately this is a body/attractiveness joke and not a joke relating to gender dynamics which she would absolutely get a pass on. This is an conventionally attractive person putting down a conventionally unattractive person.

It could be the family, not the location. Which is something I keep in mind knowing how many people from the north go off on how terrible the south is keeping in mind that historically this could be someone from a southern slave-keeping family insulting someone from a northern abolitionist one.

Nope. It’s where you went. Dallas has been largely Democratic since 95 with a brief interlude of Tom Leppert who frankly seemed rather Independant flavored for a Republican. And the state gerrymandered the districts, so you see Republicans overstated in terms of population (like most cities though since that’s coming…

For me, I think the disconnect is a conversation requires “dialogue” and that actually is going to require everyone to deal with data they don’t like. Some porn consumers will have to assimilate the idea perhaps their favorite actor/actress has a pretty dark story or that something they like has flaws. Some will have…

Truthfully, it was the two sides of the internet fighting about it that turned me off more than anything. As quite a few commentators have pointed out, it may have been just better to let those trolls scream into the void. And then if you did see it, it felt entirely too political what your reaction was so it wasn’t…

Consider the narrative from a different way if you don’t understand it. The “Clinton’s” have been a political family in the spotlight for two decades. What Trump is now, took over two decades of congressional hearings that never went anywhere, people holding on to perceived slights, and the entire RNC’s collective…

Talking, sure. But talking doesn’t actually do anything. In the end, someone has to provide training. Or someone has to become a better kind of police. Or someone has to work on community outreach. Or someone from the community has to help foster reengagement between the cops in a neighborhood and the constitutents.

It also wouldn’t be short. The next president gets at least the next two Supreme court Noms. If we go from a 5-4 to a 6-3 court (probably one of the next will be RBG), the consequences wont be 4 yeas. It will probably take 10-20 years to unscrew up the court. And if that happens, liberals better be a super majority…

There was a time when there was no such thing as “professionals.” As much as I can dig your sentiment, the only thing “professional” means is good enough to play at that level and has a support system.

People care because it’s about what the party looks like after the election, that’s it.

Pretty much. She was describing a family/boyfriend interaction that actually sounded like gatekeeping.

Because she’s far from the only person that’s done it. It’s a historically grey area in Presidential administrations as different Admins have had different ways of protecting communications they don’t want ultimately to become public.

Honestly, this has been so long that no one actually presents this story correctly. Monica Lewinsky ALSO lied about it on a sworn affidavit in the Paula Jones investigation. Monica and Bill were telling the same story until...

How? There’s nothing to step up. This is what Clinton supporters worried the Sanders campaign tactics would ultimately result in. This line of attack was used on the left successfully as well after being 2 decades old on the Republican side. There is no defense for it as Hillary was part of her husband’s White House…

The problem ultimately becomes that Harvard would have to write some sort of policy allowing one form of club but not another. And I think no matter how well intentioned, any such policy might inevitably become dated quickly, be awkwardly written by necessity, and Title IX challenge prone. It might just be that this…

“(no, making fun of a bigot isn’t bullying the bigot)“

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