Nanette is probably the most powerful thing I have ever seen. That is not hyperbole either. 

1. Fuck you.

You sure seem like you like lectures, based on this comment thread.

Your opinion might have more weight for me, if you weren’t a man. (based purely on your name)

Oh, I got a nice, laugh-filled evening just thinking about how uncomfortable dudes looking for yet another unexamined, guilt-free experience got from being so brazenly called-out.

LOL ok, troll.

I’m a queer woman and laughed quite often over the course of her special so maybe this just wasn’t your type of thing.

She didn’t say “This is no longer a comedy show,” she said “I’m thinking about quitting comedy because it no longer provides something important in my life,” and then she examines why. You are all over the responses on this article saying things that are factually inaccurate and telling people they’re wrong for…

We must have watched different things, because I clearly remember the audience laughing. And comedy doesn’t have to simply ‘be funny and make people laugh’. Lots of comedians offer social commentary. She went hard and much more serious in the last 20 minutes or so, and if someone left feeling angry that it wasn’t joke…

Actually, the only line in the show that refers to her own rape is quoted in the article: “And it was two men who raped me when I was barely in my twenties...” She didn’t go into any further detail. I understand you found the show as a whole unpleasant, but calling a sentence referring to rape “an extremely detailed…

Weird. I thought it was hilarious. It’s almost like comedy...is...subjective.

Talk about missing the point. Why is “WHAT COMEDY IS OR ISN’T” the holy shrine boys are whacking their nuts against about this?

Agreed that the comments tend towards scary and gleeful shaming. But I think that’s an audience (/ human?) problem vs. the account’s problem. There are a lot of people who, like I said above, ARE part of the problem and will be like HA! Cellulite! But the more and more we as a public see images of women looking…

It can be both things. We can applaud her for her honesty and bravery in detailing very personal things AND we can concurrently sympathize with audience members who expected a traditional comedy show and ended up with something different.

You know that Netflix makes non-comedy things, right? Like, why are so many people shocked by this? The trailer is super clear about how it’s not a traditional comedy show.

I haven’t seen it yet, but not once have I seen it referenced as comedy- mostly I hear about people crying after they see it, and Netflix’s trailer that autoplays in the app starts with the “I’m quitting comedy” thing, so I’m not sure how you were so duped.

A lot of those women became millionaires and even billionaires selling young girls a body image that was no more real than anime. There is value in pointing out how much of a lie the image is. And I have to ask, is the lie not misogyny? Is photoshop, hours of make up, surgery, and a team of experts to post a single…

I almost quit while watching Nanette, because the first 20 min is a true comedy special and, while I chuckled, I didn’t think it was super funny. Then that switch fucking happened and the next thing I knew, I was sobbing and I’ve watched it like 3 times over. It’s so so good. 

I laughed very very hard. Repeatedly. I also cried. If you are also capable of a wide range of emotions you may enjoy it.

Sasha Barron is doing God’s work since God abandoned our country in disgust when President Troll strolled down that tacky escalator 3 years ago.

my favorite thing is when people blame other people for words and actions that came out of their own body. LOL