Damn, that’s a cold ass Frosty.

LOLOL. GET IT? MACKLEMORE!

I am referring to the owl and the dog. Chill out, owl and dog.

Take it easy.

Add a little white vinegar to the water.

Well, hold on a second! You don’t sound like an asshole and there is no need to apologize, but you are actually conflating a few things here.

When I write a post about how a car commercial is racist, that’s because that car commercial is racist. It is NOT about how “racism can never be used in a joke.” The same goes with calling something out for being homophobic, or misogynistic. What you seem to be interpreting from this post is that I think that it is OK to make fun of women, and that is because I do think that. But you are also incorrectly interpreting my past statements to suggest that I DON’T think it’s OK to make fun of black people or gay people. You are wrong. I think you can make fun of whoever and whatever the hell you want. It just happens that when you start making fun of these groups, especially as a white person or as an institution (The Onion), sometimes (most of the times, really) you’re going to do it wrong, and in these cases you should apologize.

The argument being had right now about whether or not the word “cunt” is as bad as racial slurs or homophobic slurs is a very valid one, and I would not be surprised if I end up coming away from it with a different opinion about the word than when I came in (although for now I am still weighing all of my options!). But you are absolutely WRONG, not an asshole but WRONG, to suggest that because I have complained about racism in the recent past that I have therefore not written about misogyny, because I have, and I believe the record will reflect that I have spoken out against it just as vehemently. (Although I also have to admit that for as thoughtful and considerate as your comment proves that you are, it’s weird that you are somehow making this into an EITHER/OR issue, as if somehow even if I was saying that women’s issues are not important, that somehow makes my distaste for racism invalid. Huh?)

But, frankly, I have always found “bad words” to be a distracting semantical straw man that diverts attention away from the much more serious issues of genuine oppression. So yeah, I guess in that sense you are right. I definitely think the word “cunt” is in and of itself less problematic than, say, black face. Words are definitely important and we should all take our time in choosing them, but they are not the root of the problem, no.

By that logic though you can say the same about the word “dick.” Now, before this sets off any alarm bells there are some very obvious differences that I obviously recognize: for one thing, calling a dude a “dick” does not in and of itself dredge up the legacy of when men didn’t have the right to vote, or hold jobs, or leave Downton to write editorials for the newspaper, or any of the things that were only recently amended and are still obviously very problematic. Moreover, the word “dick” does not have the same violence or eye-twitchy reflex-hammer of the word “cunt.” Agreed! My point is just that there are reductive words all over the place on both sides of the aisle, and unless someone can show me that the word “cunt” was systematically used to encapsulate the genuine legal and social issues of women, then it is going to continue to be a word that I think can be funny or at the very least fine if used in a thoughtfully constructed joke context. (If we’re talking about the world outside of jokes then no one should call anyone anything other than Sir or Ma’am.)

Hahahhahah! As if there is nothing more horrible on this Earth than breaking the fourth wall? A truly sad day!!!!!!

Nazi costume.

I think your reading of Zoe’s nemesis is overly simplistic. She’s using the technology thing to needle Zoe because it’s something that she looks down upon, for sure, and maybe (maybe) that’s because she doen’st understand it or doesn’t want to evolve, but mostly it’s the seasoned veteran who has worked hard to get where she is feeling the inexplicable frustration and jealousy that accompanies watching a much younger and much less experienced person have a meteoric rise to the top.

It’s not as obvious as what you are saying, though. Like, I tried watching The Expendables the other day and I had to turn it off after five minutes. It was so awful. And Shoot ‘Em Up was way to wink-y for my taste. The reason I think something like Fast Five works so well (and also Die Hard 4, which was my favorite trip to the theater that year) is that they DON’T wink at you, or at the very least, you’re not sure if they’re winking at you or not. It’s played 100 percent straight. But also, in general the movie either has it or it doesn’t. The Transporter is fine, for example, but I’m not rushing to see more Transporter movies. It’s honestly a pretty special combination that fails more often than not.