It's upsetting! I want to fight with Videogum on twitter for some reason!
No GABE, not everything needs to be a meta...something on...narrative....jokes...
SOME THINGS ARE WHITNEY. I GUESS I'LL JUST WATCH THAT NOW.
I saw that Snow White trailer yesterday and just LOST IT. But now I'm worried that the movie is 90% Kristin Stewart looking pensive in the woods, and we've already seen most of the Queen's stuff.
But oh man. THAT MIRROR, YOU GUYS.
"If you're clever, you pull the box all the way out of the drawer..."
I have a funny feeling he's going to regret his choice of words there at some point.
It's funny - I noticed a little smile when he was showing his tattoo-face, and I found it very endearing. I wasn't kidding when I said he was pretty in an earlier comment.
Is it weird that I see so much vulnerability here? Like you could say "he's hiding himself, he's covering himself up" but you could just as easily argue that he's showing a great deal of himself (irrespective of the "I have no skin" joke).
But then, I like tattoos.
I think it's a slim and unimportant distinction. Tracy wasn't performing for people in his living room. Comics don't have some kind of confessional seal on what goes on in a comedy club, and I have never heard anyone say that a comic has a reasonable expectation that excerpts of his act not be repeated lest people draw harsh conclusions about him.
Maybe the act was meant for a closed audience because it was full of nasty bullshit that a wider audience would react to very sharply.
But anyway, back to the matter at hand, you shouldn't call people "mongs." Mongs are amazing. Half the people in the world have them. They give birth to us.
Wait. Shit.
Nobody's talking about banning anyone or anything, and GLAAD didn't force Tracy Morgan to do a damn thing. Who's talking about protecting or coddling anyone?
As a matter of fact, I said on this very website that I *love it* when someone reveals themselves to be a disgusting bigot. I want them to have a bigger platform, a bigger microphone. I want my enemies visible, audible, and recognizable for the haters they are.
I came to the conclusion that using the word "pussy" to denote weakness was literally wrong - it was incorrect and stupid and completely antithetical to my whole value system.
Ain't NO babies comin' out of my penis. We do NOT have the strength.
Interesting question...I'd say it's different because "mong" is specifically a racial term used to denote mental defect, whereas idiot, imbecile, and moron are all terms specifically coined to do the same, without attaching the negative association to something like an ethnic group.
I'm honestly not sure how I feel about Ricky at all, other than that he has kind of gone off the rails. But permit me to rebut you, using Tracy Morgan as an example, who I will happily chastise and hold hostage for the rest of my damn life:
That motherfucker was not portraying a character onstage who is so hideous and stupid that he would actually stab his son in the heart if he acted "unmanfully."
He is that character. He IS the guy who said that. He might not literally do it, but there was an honest feeling there, and the joke was "you're not supposed to say this shit, but we're all thinking it, right?!" Otherwise he wouldn't now be saying that he "doesn't understand what he said that got gay people all upset."
I was chastised by a friend once for using the word "pussy" as a derogatory. I thought she was being totally prudish and unfair - I mean come on, I know vaginas are amazing. I'm completely impressed by and respect them...so I was forced to ultimately come to the conclusion that using a slang term for them as an insult that implies weakness is wrong. It just is. And if anything, I'm much, much funnier than when I used to whip out "pussy" in a semi-ironic "I'm gay so I can talk like an idiot bro" sort of way.
We are what we say. It creates our world. That said, I think comics should push the envelope, every time. And they should have the pussy to take some heat for it if the core of that joke is ugly and mean-spirited.
Gum fact:
"Mongol" refers to a citizen of the Mongol Empire, which conquered a vast swath of the known world, kicked some serious ass, and kind of started globalization. (They invented the passport. They were awesome. Brutal motherfuckers if you messed with -which is to say did not surrender to- them, but awesome). China, India, and Korea more or less have the borders that were established for them by the Khans.
"Mongoloid" is an absurdly racist and offensive term that harkens back to...you know how people with Down syndrome kind of look different? Well, people of "learning" in the 18th or 19th century basically thought that this was the inferior traits of the Mongol conquerors expressing themselves generations later.
http://www.amazon.com/Genghis-Khan-Making-Modern-World/dp/0609610627
The Gum You Know.
If I ever see that an original episode of the Twilight Zone is on, I will watch it. And if it's a marathon, I will fill my DVR with that marathon and just bliss out.
For no other reason than that, this is what we get. The price of liking chocolate is that every fifteen minutes someone is trying to feed you something brown.
It isn't chocolate.
Thank-you, Brandon Kelly, for permitting me to look down my list of accomplishments in life and feel damn good about myself.
I STILL have not been in the physical presence of people playing the game of golf. 30 years going strong.
Ok, I wasn't planning on commenting here, but when I clicked I was overwhelmed with "Why the fuck does it look like the back of Tim Allen's fucking head?!" So there. I guess.
Also, I got a glow-in-the-dark promotional not-Livestrong bracelet to promote Supernatural, when that show came out, and I hear it is still very popular. So yep, this works, and hard.
Can we talk for a minute about how Lafayette keeps getting possessed and doing really obviously, dramatic, memorably illegal shit, and nobody ever even MENTIONS it later?
"Kidnapped our baby and held him at gunpoint? Cut your boyfriend's throat? LOL, you crazy gay medium fry cooks!"
I mean I guess we can't talk about that, because if we're setting the bar that high we will literally be here all day. But I kind of needed to say something.
"Things had never really recovered from the night a few months earlier when they’d had a horrible argument and Ernie had locked himself in the office and spitefully bent all of Bert’s paperclips. He was mournful and apologetic the next day, but they both knew it was over."
This...touched me. After the Allison Brie/Gillian Jacobs fic, I have to ask...Gabe are you OK?
I understood exactly how you felt in that interview. Is it possible you have written a fictionalized account that perfectly captures being the experience of a gay man trying to connect with himself and his fellows on the internet in the tense political environment of the early-21st century?
Layers within layers.
I really thought we were almost rid of Tara this time. That would have been so ballsy!
I will be PISSED if Vampire Jessica burns up. She has always been one of this ridiculous show's saving graces.
Can we all agree that this would get higher ratings if they just reran the original show? It would be so charming, and more in line with what viewers might actually enjoy than a reboot.
And who the hell will they get to play Endora? Sherri Shepherd and RuPaul are both entirely too busy.
I have never watched a CopperCab video, and I am not about to start now.
Don't think this has spared me the haunting sense of " Someone stop this. Oh god, why is everyone just watching? Somebody...somebody stop it!"
So don't worry.
Whenever I go to sleep in a hotel bed I actually comfort myself with the thought "Hey, maybe the last people who used this thing were encased in latex from head to toe." Because IT HAPPENS.
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