I find the Oscars tedious, and only watched a few minutes last night — I bailed shortly after Captain Kirk made his appearance — but apparently I should have stuck around, if only to watch the insufferable Seth MacFarlane’s award-winning performance as Unfunny Misogynist Asshole Host.
What, you say, he didn’t actually win an award for that? Well, yes he did: Having read a number of accounts of the whole sorry spectacle, I’m awarding MacFarlane the non-coveted Man Boobz Boob of the Day Award (Oscar Edition). In the wake of MacFarlane’s performance at the Oscars, in which he devoted a whole song to actresses’ breasts, I should note that I am using the word “boob” to mean “nincompoop.” Which, to be honest, is an undeservedly mild epithet for a guy who punctuated his comments with repeated jokes about rape.
A few of the highlights of MacFarlane’s night:
That song-and-dance number about how great it is to see so many boobs in films – including, specifically, in The Accused, and Monster, and Boys Don’t Cry. You know, during the rape scenes in those quie serious films.
MacFarlane’s animatronic teddy bear (from his movie Ted) joking about attending an orgy at Jack Nicholson’s house – you know, the place where Roman Polanski raped a 13-year old girl.
Oh, and then there was MacFarlane joking about how 9-year-old Quvenzhané Wallis would be too old to date George Clooney in about 16 years. (What, is Heartiste writing MacFarlane’s jokes?) And his bizarre domestic violence joke about Chris Brown and Rihanna. And on and on. (See here for many more examples.)
Getting into the spirit of the evening, whoever was doing The Onion’s twitter account decided it would be hilarious to refer to the aforementioned 9-year-old Quvenzhané Wallis as a “cunt.” The Onion later deleted the tweet and offered an apology for it.
Somehow I doubt we’re going to get an apology from MacFarlane.
Here are a couple more takes on the whole unfortunate evening.
Why Seth MacFarlane’s Misogyny Matters (Vulture)
Seth MacFarlane and the Oscars’ Hostile, Ugly, Sexist Night (The New Yorker)
Oscar Watch: Was That Awful or What? (NY Post)
EDITED TO ADD: Oh, joy! The Men’s Rights subreddit weighs in on the issue, in a thread sort-of-responding to that New Yorker piece.
EDITED TO ADD AGAIN: Actually, r/mensrights has two threads on the subject; here’s the other one.
Really, I’m less concerned with Seth’s response than with the Academy’s. With any luck, they’ll try to avoid this sort of thing in the future. Seth has already shown what he thinks of critics.
So he might not be the host of the Academy Awards again. I doubt he cares. He still has 3 major TV shows and just made a movie. How will he survive and have a way to voice his opinion?
So, Brandon, that said, why do YOU care if we complain? Other than that you hate when straight white guys are brought up short for asshole behavior.
So he can voice his opinion, but we can’t voice ours, because he wouldn’t care? I don’t give a fuck if he cares or not.
hellkell, does he know you exist?
I think all the trolls here and on other sites I visit are burning me out.
Or maybe I’m suffering from the high burn out rate from my job.
Just can’t right now.
So because he doesn’t know we exist, our opinions are invalid? That is one of the dumbest of many dumb things you’ve said.
BrandonWorld is a strange fucking place.
You just said it isn’t his opinion, he was talking shit. Make up your mind.
If this lameass bloke is so rich and powerful and blah blah blah, why do you feel the need to sneak back to this site and tell us how nasty we are for criticising him? You don’t seriously think we expect him to read our words, do you? What’s it to you, either way? How does this affect the all-important World of Brandon?
Brandon cannot stand it when a man is being criticized for sexist behavior.
So are sockpuppets not being re-banned any more? It’s not as if NNY is even trying to deny that he’s Brandon.
melody, internet hugs!
Have some Golden Retriver puppies.
http://youtu.be/QZv70PG9eXM
I’d like to know how shitty you have to be at IT when it takes you the better part of a year to figure out how to cloak your IP.
That thought occurred to me too, hellkell.
Boring troll still being boring, I see.
If there are any Avengers fans lurking, you gotta check this out. There’s a thing on Tumblr where people are taking Jack Frost, Merida, Rapunzel and Hiccup and putting together gifs of them with Avengers quotes. “Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons” (yes, it needs a catchier name, but wev.)
http://pandreaa.tumblr.com/post/43833149472/the-big-four-as-the-avengers-kind-of
http://pandreaa.tumblr.com/post/43848194238/the-big-four-as-the-avengers-kind-of
I need to watch “Rise of the Guardians” now.
The Avengers will always be these two for me … 🙂
Brandon: pecunium, There were plenty of people that found what he said funny or shocking.
That they are morally suspect, at best, is also true. Just because shitty people laughed doesn’t mean the jokes are worthwhile.
Lots of people approve of things which are wrong. The South thought so strongly enough to fight a war about one of them; as Seth was aware when he did the show last night.
My only “case” is that I find it funny that a bunch of people telling Seth what a shitty person he is and I bet his only response is “Oh well, can’t make everyone happy” or “Then don’t watch me or my shows”.
Got it. He does things which are actually offensive, which are bemeaning, and even degrading, and you think it’s funny people call him on it.
And you say it’s not because he did anything wrong, but because “haters gonna hate”. You, personally, dismiss them, out of hand, because… oh right, you don’t see anything wrong in degrading people, discounting their work, mocking their acheivements and generally kicking the underdog.
Hellkell, No. I don’t think Seth gives one rats ass about you, me or this site. He is going to do what he wants and no amount of you complaining is going to stop him.
Ah… we see the value you place on him. He is the walking embodiment of the Brandon Philosophy of Life: Fuck You Jack, I Got Mine.
I know how to hide my IP, ffs, and my involvement in IT never went beyond sales.
Could be that Brandon’s IT career is as imaginary as Ashley was.
BTW: this is a reminder to the SF area boobzers that I’ll be in the bay for about a week, starting the day after tomorrow.
Wait, are we sure Brandon/NNY isn’t really Seth’s mother? Just read his posts (in which he argues Seth is the best thing ever) in Betty White’s voice then get back to me.
And why should I defend that I am not this so called Brandon? I know I am not, so why should I care if you think otherwise?
Shiraz, Anything in Betty White’s voice would kick ass.
I’m just ignoring the stupid, but last page cloudiah suggested David put an HTML guide up, and that maybe I could write it? If he wants to post one, I’d be happy to write one up.
Pecunium — I directed a torture question at you on twitter, but idk if 140 characters is going to work.
Everyone else — that question was about this — http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/02/ending-forced-genital-normalizing-surgeries/273300/ — and whether forced gender “normalizing” surgery amounts to torture.
I’d say I don’t want to derail with that conversation, but fuck if it isn’t more interesting than the current crop of trolls.
Anyone else who’s not Brandon still around? Because he’s much too boring to talk to for any length of time.
Ok, I can’t ignore that!
“It’s so called Brandon”
Cuz it’s totally suspect that there was once a guy posting here under the nym of Brandon! Guys, guys! Are you lying about Brandon’s nym?!
Derail away!
I don’t know that I’d say it’s torture because torture has a more specific definition, but I would say that it’s unethical and that I don’t see any reason why any operation that is going to be done can’t wait till the kid is old enough to have some say in things.
Right, it’s just a coincidence that you have the same hobbyhorses–women having standards and men being criticized–and the same shitlord posting styles. Of course.