Oh man... I could tell you some stories about several bands listed in this article. I was in a weird, kind of exploitive relationship with a guy in high school and so I was very much in the scene from the 2004-2007 era in Vegas. I was close with several local bands who were always “on the verge” of making it and some…

I was big into emo but what appealed about it to me was relating to the frustration and feelings of disenchantment, betrayal, tragic romance, bitterness, and self-loathing. It wasn’t until some years later that I recognized that the men who wrote these songs weren’t even remotely considering that the reason some women…

In spite of being somewhat aware of these issues individually, I was never really able to articulate why this genre turned me off. I just kind of dismissed it as not for me in like 2006 and never gave it much thought. The angry, lonely, maybe suicidal, maybe murderous whining just didn’t do it for me, and there was…

I was just outside of the age to get into the Emo movement, but even then, the nature of the scorned male seem so preposterously a cover for dudes who would and did act just like the dudes that the evil women they sang about were interested in. The idea of a love unrequited forever in music has seemed like a breeding…

This is peak Jezebel. Delighted about a white man who literally says that gay people don’t deserve Pride Month, just because he takes a shot at white women.

He’s not wrong but a white guy railing against white women for complicity in white supremacy is like Hitler railing against Eva Braun for being complicit in anti-Semitism.

But I don’t think that is what he did.  He essentially said “you did this too” and not “you benefited as a by product of having the same race as men like me.”  I think it is a little off to think that a group of people who could be raped by their husbands with impunity/beaten by their husbands with impunity/had no…

Frankly, as objectively accurate that bit may have been, considering the rest of the monologue, I don’t believe even for a moment that he actually gives a shit. It was just a convenient mask for his misogyny, and misogynistic idiots are falling for it.

Nothing is more woke than a man calling women bitches, amirite? :D

Burr on LGBT people in the same speech:

A white man issuing that criticism is absolutely punching down. If it came from anyone else it would be legitimate criticism. Coming from him, together with shitting on LGBT people and people with Covid19? He wasn’t punching down, he was stomping down with steel-heeled boots.

Enslaved? No. Lynched? In several countries to this very day.

What I read up there was super misogynistic. When a man is calling women “bitches” and other choice words, his message is lost, regardless of whether it’s a valid message. He’s just as bad as the people he’s purportedly telling to sit down, if not worse, because he clearly doesn’t even know how to talk to us.

Things I’m fine with/agree with: Criticising white feminists for making racism about them, instead of standing to the side as supportive allies, and/or choosing to fight against hardship aimed at women as a whole.

Things I’m not:
- Doing so by calling women ‘bitches’.
- Saying the LGBTQIA+ community hasn’t experienced…

I mean, it IS misogynist, though. That’s his whole schtick: white guy punches down, then squeaks about hypocrisy when he gets called on it, then all the white boys feels smug for ‘pwning the libs’ or whatever.

I was unfamiliar with Bill Burr until this. I simply didn’t find him funny.

I mean, that’s his entire comic persona. He also definitely is very much in the “Fuck the PC police” mold of comedian. He frequently subverts those tropes cleverly (there’s a reason he hosted SNL and not, like, Adam Carolla), but he also definitely just sometimes wades in shittiness. I mean, “white women need to shut…

I also hate that he is getting all of this attention for this bit, as if he is the first comedian to make this point. There are far funnier lady comedians who have been making this point for a while.

I honestly don’t watch a lot of his content in full because I feel that there are many other smarter and funnier comedians to pay attention to, but when someone’s jokes become championed by far right “news” organizations...ehhhh....it’s one of those, “liking Bill Burr doesn’t make you far right, but sometimes it’s…

I think some of the backlash may be due to the fact that Bill Burr has a long history of maligning feminism in general. In an old bit he suggested that Michelle Obama isn’t qualified to give speeches and stated that the only reason she is liked is because she is a woman. He does with feminism what Chappelle does with…