It sounds like you’ve made up your mind on the matter.

These are questions I would really like answered. More than I’d like to admit, I know I put a handful of women in uncomfortable situations (by being too grabby). There are no excuses for my actions, and they leave me petrified and sad for those who I may have hurt. I reached out to one particular person to apologize.…

What?

It certainly did me. It has forced me to re-evaluate a lot of my previous interactions with women. It has also made me realize I need to be exceedingly proactive in teaching my son about consent, boundaries, accountability, etc.

Hopefully ‘round the same time men do? Also, you’re a shit stain.

Gaah! The sound! It’s replaying over in my head.

That’s fair enough.

I think it’s safe to say that Tina Fey was aiming that one directly at Trump and his supporters.

This is very interesting, thanks for typing it all out. Perhaps the alt-right’s “success” in recent years is because their paradigm is clear: we hate people who will take over our land and muck up our blood-lines.

Yes, Tina Fey has always come across to me as one who wishes to stay out of the political activism, and I think that is fine. She does things that she thinks is funny, and she does not bend to every wind of “oh, that’s offensive.” While some may not, I respect that.

Might the tedium also stem from us over-analyzing/dissecting the words of a comedian spoken on a sketch comedy show? To me, that is far more tedious.

Well, I think to not find it funny is totally acceptable. As the saying goes, different SNL bits for different folks. But, my big issues with the outcry are the standards to which we hold celebrities. We expect them to “lead the charge” against our societal woes, which I think is strange.

Queue the 10,000 comments asking funny people to rebrand themselves as political revolutionaries. *wank off motion* 

I did not know this. Thanks for providing some context.

As the other commenter in this thread (Woke and Boke Bro) said, it’s all about the context. If Tina Fey had been commissioned by Barack Obama to actually delineate the next steps for handling this issue, we should call her out on this plan.

Amen, and amen. I could not agree more.

Jokes aren’t automatically sincere. They can be satire.

Yes, it often is.

Cool.