Misogyny is not pretty
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Submitted by vastleft on Mon, 09/15/2008 - 9:56am
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I'm just five minutes into Bill Maher's "Real Time" show from last Friday, and there have already been more blatantly misogynistic jokes than I have time to scribe. Several mock the idea of a mom in the White House, and one involves Palin's daughters' pubes.
Stay classy, Bill!
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Sadly
Maher has some issues about women, which unfortunately he at times shares...I won't link but he has a past history about some things.
Is he the kind of guy we can write or would that just feed the problem? (Because feminism, as Shakes says...)
He's heard a lot of complaints
And he just shirks them off.
They all do
Remember, misogyny remains the only bigotry considered to be nothing more than being rude or frank. So it's like telling someone to mind their manners.
Oversensitive
Maher is a comedian. He takes shots at everybody and does not worry about political correctness. He is concerned about Palin's lack of credentials. We all should be. Besides being ignorant of issues that any vice-presidential candidate should know, she is also mean and vindicative. Ignorant, mean and vindicative is quite a scary mix. Frankly if you mistake honesty for misogyny then you are just feeding into the McCain/Palin strategy. I guess anybody who makes a joke about a woman or is critical is misogynistic. And by the way his crack about her being a stewardess is not that far off, except I bet a lot of stewardesses know more about the Bush doctrine and foreign policy then she does.
Funny, Janeane Garofalo who was on that show
Thought that material was inappropriate, too.
"I guess anybody who makes a joke about a woman or is critical is misogynistic." Nice strawman there. I have a rather black and risque sense of humor, but at the heart of some jokes is prejudice, and when you hammer away with one such joke after another, it's plain you're seeing what Al Franken calls "kidding on the square."
Frankly if you apologize for misogyny then you are just feeding into centuries of marginalization.
Sorry...
But Maher, in my observations, has a woman probelm; he just does. I really think that on most issues he's brilliant, but it's always been my observation that his commentary on women is particularly and exceptionally angry and venomous, almost always being less smart and snarky than his other commentary. He's never going to change, because he's always right; always.