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.
@princesssunnyburn, yes. Everyone who likes anything anyone does wants to get into said person’s pants. Clearly.
What he’s trying to say is, zhe’s in love with Seth MacFarlane. Which, you know, there’s someone for everyone, i guess.
Um i guess that because i liked Cloudiah’s writing above…hellooooooo cloudiah! *exagerated wink*
I’d like to see DS do talent agent work. “Loads of women claim they find my client offensive, but they sit there in the audience because they want to feel his love rod in the slobbering maws of their c***-pipe!”
“… We’re hiring a Master of Ceremonies for a retirement luncheon, not an orgy.” *phone down*
Echoing bad_dog, ban DS.
Was Arks banned originally? My memory is so bad.
I just found a good picture of what I think Arks/DragonBoy thinks a glistening sea urchin (of LOVE!) looks like. Image is SFW but also a little terrifying.
Well hi there, heidihi. [leers]
I see the blockquote monster finally got me. I feel like I’ve completed a rite of passage :,-)
You’re awful people, really. I told you my friend died, and even though that’s pretty much all you know about me, all you people did was post well-wishes and recipes. Honestly, I don’t know why I hang out here.
On a subject of movies and tv, I would love to see a project where they take a book and make it into a movie or a show where, when they cast it, they describe each character’s personality with carefully non-leading language, have people of all races and genders read for the roles and them be chosen by people who don’t know the story or the gender/races of the characters in the source material. Be especially good with a fantasy/sci-fi book which would usually be heavily male and white, and tend to have ensemble casts.
The original Alien was written that way: all the characters were gender-neutral in the screenplay so they could be could be played by any actors. The screenwriters sort of assumed that Ripley, as the main character, would be played by a man, but Ridley Scott decided to cast Sigourney Weaver to attract a female audience.
So basically, if you cast a woman in a gender-neutral role, you get one of the most kickass female characters of all time.
To be fair, I believe some of our recipes did call for bittersweet chocolate.
@cloudiah HUBBAH HUBBAH *removes all clothing*
wow. MRAs were right, this really does work.
@emilygoddess my gosh i’m so sorry for your loss. <3 to you and yours.
@heidihi, that really is what it seems like. Personally I think he looks like a squinty bowl of self satisfied porridge, and while I agree with general consensus that his voice is rather nice, I wouldn’t want him anywhere near my nether regions, partially because he doesn’t do it for me and partially because I’m pretty much convinced that he couldn’t find the clitoris with the help of a map.
Thing is, I’ve actually watched quite a bit of each of his shows, before I became completely disgusted with him. If you watch any of them for any length of time, it becomes pretty apparent that he’s got some issue with women, particularly with teenage girls. As if they don’t get shit on enough. Just look at how the teenage daughter character gets treated in every one of his shows; Roberta from the Cleveland Show is presented as selfish and slutty, with no prospects for the future other than getting “famous” (this is doubly problematic when you consider that the Cleveland Show is about a black family and Roberta falls into just about every negative stereotype there is about young black women) Haley from American Dad is a liberal mouthpiece presented as a slutty, pot smoking hypocrite, and don’t even get me started on poor Meg from Family Guy. The abuse she suffers at the hands of her family is borderline triggering. What’s even more disgusting, IMO, is that when fans began to express dislike for how she gets treated, Mcfarlane offered up an episode that basically amounted to telling us Meg HAD to be abused, for the good of the family, because if she didn’t everyone else suffered. So that… makes it okay?
Uhhhhg.
I used to love Family Guy in college, but then my dad bought me the Family Guy album. It takes a lot to be so obnoxious and offensive that even Fox won’t let you go all-out…
It’s funny, because MacFarlane is actually a pretty hardcore liberal. Yes, Haley is a caricature, but it’s meant as a contrast to the equally ridiculous conservative caricature that is her father. As a rule, all of his shows have a distinctly left-wing sensibility.
But then, modern gender feminists/Social Justice Warriors are more like a bizarre splinter cell of mainstream liberalism. I suppose MacFarlane doesn’t fellate the politically correct phallus enough and/or engage in adequate penance for his white penis.
Yeah, yeah, you”re pining away for him and know he’d never be interested even if he was bisexual or homosexual, Arks. We get it, you don’t need to go on with your fantasies.
Oh and Arksy, what happened to your gay porn sub gravatar? You really should use it, y’know, it says all that needs to be said about your thoughts on sex. Think of all the strain you’d save yourself typing the same thing over and over again.
Draggy, McFarlane doesn’t get a free pass for being overtly misogynistic just because he’s on ‘our side’ of the political spectrum.
though if this is how you see this sort of thing, I guess it explains why MRAs are cool with letting abusers, racists, and terrorists represent them.
Hi all! Been busy for the last couple of days, between my car not turning off (turns out there’s a recall on it for exactly that), preparing for an office luncheon (turned out delicious), and my mother’s reaction to being newly partially retired,(let’s organize ALL the things!)
Not that I’m complaining about that last one. I was just not expecting to be asked to put a bookcase together first thing Sunday morning. Thank heavens it’s an IKEA bookcase.
I know, I know! How did I manage to put a bookcase together without help from a man? I’m sure Seth McFarlane would have helped me if I’d flashed my boobs at him!
I never watch live TV anymore thanks to the DVR, so I just fast-forwarded through all of Mr McFarlane’s unpleasantness once the trend for the evening became clear.
Despite Draggin’ Arks’s assertion, I have to say I find Mr McFarlane rather ordinary looking. If I passed him on the street, I probably wouldn’t recognize him. And as for experiencing a manatee/clam/waterfall/sea urchin/spackle/love phlegm reaction between my legs, I’d have it for Timothy Spall before I had it for Seth McFarlane. Mr Spall is a talented actor, has been married to his wife for over 30 years, and comes across in interviews as a really lovely person.
People who are ugly on the inside and pretty on the outside tend to start seeming ugly on the outside too, once you get to know them.
QFT
And vice versa, I find. Once you get to know people, they stop looking like their initial appearance and just look like themselves, if that makes sense.
Yes, but if every woman there stood up and walked out, that would definitely be something worth talking about. Hell, I’m sure some of the men there wouldn’t mind taking that walk either. As it stands, everyone sits and the assholes continue thinking that they’re so brave saying what everyone is thinking.
And as for the onion… What the fuck?
Hey Bad Dog, want some more snow? We got plenty coming our way tonight. I could send you some.
“The audience was up 3% from last year’s awards hosted by Billy Crystal and improved 11% among the key adults 18-49 demographic to a 13.0 rating…showed even greater gains among young and male viewers, up 20% with adults 18-34, up 34% with men 18-34 and 16% with men 18-49.”
To see Seth McFarlane feminists can just look in the mirror. The problem will continue to get worse until hundreds of millions of disenfranchised men find relief from feminist legal persecution. Relief that will only come with the continued rise of the MRM.
Google “full text” followed by any major bill that you want. Housing, education, violence, health, whatever. Then search the document for the word “woman” and search for the word “men”. Learn the truth.
How do you think men feel about being excluded from billions of dollars of institutional protection by their government? How do you think men feel about being denied eqaul protection by the courts?
The worst part is that men, boys, and fathers fare FAR worse than women, by any measurable standard, in each of these areas. Health, education, violence, housing. Your evil feminist campaign of bigotry and hatred is generating a lot of anger in men. Anger that fools like Seth McFarlane harness for personal gain. Anger that the MRM will harness for transformative social change.
Equal protection under the law for all.
Equal protection of government for all.
Bye, bigots.
Your pretentiousness, smugness, and stupidty make me want to crawl into a fucking hole.
Ooh, Anthony’s back! Any progress on the plan to divide the US along the Mississippi river?