EDITOR’S UPDATE: The YouTube I embedded below went dead sometime yesterday, so I’ve replaced it with the “official” video, straight from the NBC Web site, possibly including (Sometimes the commercial plays, sometimes it goes straight to the video) an irritating 30-second commercial up front that they included, not me.
So if you don’t feel like being shilled to, just take my word that it’s last week’s Saturday Night Live clip of Tina Fey as Sarah Palin and Amy Poehler as Hillary Clinton. If you do watch it, take heart in the fact that NBC made a nickel in advertising thanks to taking down a free YouTube video using a 200 dollar an hour lawyer.
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First I will embed this, and then, after four days, I suppose I will actually, you know… watch it…
I’ll admit that that was as funny as Saturday Night Live’s been since Hans and Franz… but considering Hans and Franz was to comedy what crotch rot was to key parties, that’s not saying much.
So: Saturday Night Live was funny for a change. Well, funnyish. End of news item. Full stop. Right?
“The portrait was very dismissive of the substance of Sarah Palin, and so in that sense, they were defining Hillary Clinton as very substantive, and Sarah Palin as totally superficial,†McCain advisor Carly Fiorina told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell on Monday. “I think that continues the line of argument that is disrespectful in the extreme, and yes I would say sexist.â€
Now, don’t get me wrong: if I had to be on Saturday Night Live any time after 1978, I would hate myself, too, but since that’s not the point, let me address myself directly to Carly for a moment on her reactionary and automatic cries of “sexism!” whenever someone speaks ill of her candidate: Thanks for the downer on a Wednesday morning, Tits.
I’ve got news for you, Carly: not liking a woman does not automatically make you a sexist any more than not liking Edward Furlong makes you a Terminator.
Look around you, Carly: it’s 2008. Not only are most dudes in Generation X or younger not particularly sexist, but we have been trained to believe that we are inferior to women in every way, to the point where I’m sometimes almost ashamed that I don’t have the privilege of getting a monthly dork bleed. You want proof of our rote indoctrination? Go to any school and take a look at every word problem in every math textbook I ever had between first grade and high school graduation:
“Jane has three dollars, and Dave has four dollars. Jane invests her money in a bank account accruing 5.9% annual compounding interest for one year, while Dave spends his money on Coors Light. After a year, Jane divests and reinvests in a six-month certificate of deposit at 6.2% non-compounding interest, while Dave has unprotected sex with a bi-curious frat boy at a bathhouse and contracts herpes simplex 2. Showing all work, calculate why Jane was paid a dollar less than Dave.”
It’s the 21st Century, Carly. If all you can fall back on when someone criticizes your female candidate is to call two women sexist, all it means is you’ve got nothing else. Because modern guys are fully and completely aware that women are just as capable as men of big things like ruining a well-respected multinational corporation.
Look at her, Carly. She’s a creationist with a jones for The Rapture, a foreign policy doctrine that you could get off any t-shirt at an Anchorage gun show, and a history of treacherously grabbing taxpayer money with both hands. The fact that she’s a woman only means that we can just call her a redneck skank and cut through the treacle.
However, being a gentleman, I will refer to Sarah as a “redneck drooling moron.” We Gen-X guys have learned it’s important to respect women. Otherwise they won’t blow you.
[tags]Saturday Night Live, Carly Fiorina, Sarah Palin, Tina Fey, sexism, political humor, dark humor, satire[/tags]
