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.
I know you were referring to metronomes, but I prefer to believe you were talking about Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd singing opera.
I want to make a Tell-Tale Heart reference, but I’m too sleepy.
Anyway, like Kittehs’ I read through old threads for fun (and to mine material for my blog) and I stumbled across one from not long after I rescued my two kitties; one of them, Hazel, had developed an infected mouth wound that caused her face to swell up alarmingly and she had a high fever for a while. My vet kind of scared me, even though generally she is pretty cool. I ended up spending a few sleepless nights with the sick kitty. You guys were all very sweet and comforting. Hazel is now snuggled up against me, being adorable.
That is one twitchy kitty! 😀
aworldanonymous, so glad to hear you’re making friends at college, that’s really good news. 🙂
Tulgey – LOL!
cloudiah, awww!
Wow, everyone here is so mean and negative and angry. It just goes to show that MRAs must be right about feminism, because you’re all so bitter and hateful.
(Just thought I’d get the ball rolling for FactFinder in case he decides to jump in later.)
Yup. It’s all the hatin’ on cats and bulldog puppies and sloths and otters and goats that really marks this site.
(Well, I admit there’s one otter who isn’t popular.)
And fish, can’t forget how much we all hate fish!
So much so that I didn’t go out and buy enough Ich killing meds to deal with four rounds of Ich (not including the present one). I just hate fish so much that I didn’t even bother treating their current case of the nasties, figured survival of the fittest and all. Nope, didn’t even think of the issues in dosing scaleless fish, that’s how much I hate my loaches!
(It’s been a fun day >.<)
The loathing of fish around here is frightening to behold. ::smh::
“Butbutbut FREEEDUMB OF SPEEEEECH !”
Grow up, people.
Sad, sad fact is that most sexist douchenozzles don’t realize that they are sexist douchenozzles. Those who do rarely care.
And the “can’t tell if sarcasm” spends to other threads! Pretty sure is sarcasm? *is tired*
Also, clearly I hate catfish, not like I have ~25 1~2″ ones and one 1’~ one or anything.
“FREEDUMB OF SPEEEEECH” <3
Of course you hate catfish, Argenti. They're fish that don't know their place! They want to be cats!
Or they're cats that want to be fish! It's all wrong! It's unnatural! Superdogs! SCIENCE!
Oh gods, not the catfish are cats or maybe cats are catfish. My mother’s cat keeps climbing onto the 29 gallon tank, my father insists she just wants to play with the other cats (the 3 cories that weren’t born in my tanks are in that tank)
It is indeed all wrong! It’s Spanish! No Russian! No wait, they’re the same thing! And they wear see-through mini-skirts and have lots of kids that we have to support on welfare!
Lol, that’s half true, I do get welfare, and I do support my fishies…’course, I get the “you’re nuts!” sort of welfare (yeah, on that note, I’m serious, I’m only going to get more nuts between now and St. Patrick’s day, rapist ex #1 and such…I don’t do March)
Now I’m seeing a catfish wearing a see-through top and mini-skirt … and sitting crying on a street corner … aaaaiiieeeeeeeeeee!
Tumblr was blowing up last night over all of this. It’s one thing to joke about adults but can we leave 9 year olds out of it? Is that too much to ask? Quvenzhané Wallis handled everything so well though, including correcting the reporter who wanted to call her Annie (omfg, I can’t even with that). She is going to grow up to be such a boss. Her parents are doing it right!
ANNIE? Just because she’s lined up for the role? Let me guess, the reporter couldn’t spend two seconds Googling to see how to pronounce her name before they spoke to her …
@dragon whiner
1. No insinuations were made. You were straight up called a douchebag.
2. It is not “woman logic”. I am a guy and I think you are a douchebag.
cloudiah, I second Kitteh’s awww!
I am trapping some ferals tomorrow to get them neutered. One of them is the mom of one of our kitties.
After my wife rescued the little one from a racoon, she spent 3 days at the vet, and then I spent a month keeping her warm. Now of course, I am just one of the help.
::snorfle::
Arksydragginarse has been here long enough to know that act decently = get treated decently, act like a douchebag = get treated like one. But oh noes, one must be nice to someone who spews bile about half the human species!
I had an extra chuckle about his attempted “imaginary friend” jibe tonight. Mr K has something like 100 000 descendants. If he’s imaginary, that’s setting a really high bar for who’s real.
(Yes I’m deliberately skewing what dimwit meant, ‘cos it made me laugh.)
How old is your wee raccoon rescue kitty, joanimal? So glad to hear she came through all right … and of course you’re just one of the help. It’s the natural order of things.
@kitteh
It does seem odd doesn’t it? (Its actually a beautiful name and kinda fun to say). I do not understand why there is not some professionalism (OMG another ism) that would motivate the reporters to learn an interviewee’s name.
She is one year old and almost fully grown. She is completely healthy, except she can’t climb trees because of the leg that was almost chewed off. But that is kind of a blessing at my age, I can’t climb trees as well as I used to.
That’s what I thought – both about it being a lovely name and the reporter’s slackness. Hell, the pronunciation’s on Wikipedia, it isn’t hard to find!
Yeah, must be that ism. Professionalism is an oppressive ideology, y’all!
Second awww of the night! 🙂
The only reason I’ve seen so much Family Guy is because from the ages of 19-21, almost every man who I dated or whose house I stayed at (I used to travel all over New England photographing bands so I spent almost every weekend staying at someone’s house in another state) owned Family Guy box sets and would play them for me. It was back during the beginning when the show wasn’t so OTT and I was not into social justice at all so it was funny enough to watch without me needing to demand we watch something else, but I remember getting to a point where I’m like, making bets with myself over whether or not a dude was gonna pull out the Family Guy box set haha. For someone who has never tried to watch Family Guy, I’ve seen way too many episodes.
@Marc I WOULD LOVE JOEL MCHALE! Can I just mention the time that I met him after seeing him do standup and my bf was going to take a pic of us together and he goes, “Is that your bf?” I said yes and he goes, “Let’s make him jealous” and hugged me so hard I thought he was going to crush me while simultaneously flipping off my bf. Luckily my boyfriend is not the jealous type and thought it was funny. But I was kind of dying inside because I’ve loved Joel McHale forever. Ok, that’s enough pathetic fangirling.
This. It felt more like the type of teasing high school boys do to girls who wind up with their nudes texted around the school and not a legitimate, adult attempt at humor. Not to mention that he wasn’t even poking fun at gratuitous nude scenes that are obviously just thrown in there to give men boners. There are respected actresses who are trying to create art.
As for that apology, I’m glad they made it and they made it without trying to make excuses or saying shit like, “I’m sorry you felt bad.” On the flip side, I’m a little irked at the people who are mad at that apology! People are like, “So what, do you want me to THANK YOU for apologizing? I don’t HAVE to forgive you,” and other things of that nature. This is the type of thing that I think makes people afraid of participating in social justice because there’s always going to be someone who will consider you a horrible person no matter what you do. Don’t apologize? HORRIBLE PERSON! Offer a non-apology? HORRIBLE PERSON! Offer a real apology? WHAT DO YOU WANT A COOKIE OR SOMETHING? Like it’s some rando on tumblr’s apology to even accept in the first place. I think that someone who offers a sincere apology and shows willingness to learn and change deserves a second chance. It’s not like the apology ended with, “You’re welcome.”
@joanimal Unfortunately it seems motivated by race and the prejudice against “weird POC names.” A couple of really good quotes I saw last night mentioned how every white person knows how to pronounce Zach Galifianakis’s name, and how people would be fawning over it if she was a little french girl. I understand looking at it and being like, “I have no idea how to pronounce that name,” but, as a reporter, it’s kinda your job to figure that out before you speak to the person.
There was even a joke made about this in that movie Horrible Bosses