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Oscars Unfunny
Double header! I may engage in some hyperbole in the following paraphrases, but I've also had like, five cups of coffee. Please bear with me.

First Unfunny: Seth MacFarlane.

Second Unfunny: Onion makes joke that not only falls flat, but takes out several bystanders and kills a kitten on the way down. The premise was, they called nine year old Oscar nominee Quvenzhane Wallis a cunt. The joke was that no one would ever say such a thing about her. Except, in fact, people were saying that shit about her, and say that shit to little nine year old black girls all the time*. Link is Laura Hudson's explanation and commentary on the matter.

The Onion has apologized (that's the tumblr apology, I'm not linking to the facebook one because the comments hurt my soul even more), which moves us to phase 2 of the problem, where there are now people in the comments and elsewhere shaming the Onion for apologizing for insulting a nine year old girl.

Here's one where because his friends are dicks to each other, it's okay to dehumanize a nine year old girl. Other arguments include the assumption that all jokes are sacred, comedians never fuck up, and somehow it's a personal affront when someone else apologizes for hurting someone. Also humour is dead forever because they apologized. No links to those ones, those are in the comments and you can't make me go in there to paste.

You can't.

Speaking of comments, even positive posts about Quvenzhane were filled with nastiness in the comments.

Also for some reason some people think a nine year old girl should not have had a purse shaped like a dog.

I'm going to repeat nine year old girl some more.

Sidefail: The visual effects community sees red in the wake of Oscar protest and on-air snub. They didn't pay a VFX house, people are out of work, and when a guy tried to talk about it at the Oscars they cut the mic.

*Do not take my emphasis on the youth of Quvenzhane Wallis to in any way mean I consider that appropriate to call anyone of any age. I just feel so bad for her. People wouldn't call her by her name in the interviews, MacFarlane made a sex joke about her, and etc, etc, etc.

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	quantumreality 2013-02-26 03:44 pm UTC (link)
	It looks like the Onion tried parodying Seth MacFarlane and failed horribly. :O Also, what is with the hate for a child, anyway? :( Just because she has a name which looks unpronounceable (dur, did anyone ASK HER FIRST so Seth-the-douchebag could say it properly?) doesn't mean people have a right to treat her like crap. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	ekaterinv 2013-02-26 04:29 pm UTC (link)
	No one can ever go lower than Seth MacFarlane. Parodying him by trying to be more misogynist than him is like parodying Rush Limbaugh by trying to be more misogynist than him. What would have been funny is if they wrote an article in which they pretended Seth MacFarlane said anything that made it look like he thought women were human beings. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cmdr_zoom 2013-02-26 08:03 pm UTC (link)
	this. ugh. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	franzen 2013-02-26 10:46 pm UTC (link)
	There's no way to parody misogyny, period. Anything you think is so over-the-top as to be satire is actually believed by a sizable group of people and being preached on a daily basis. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	khym_chanur 2013-02-27 12:58 am UTC (link)
	I dunno. If you said that women were literally space aliens, and are here on Earth stealing men's Precious Bodily Fluids because their alien technology uses semen as a fuel, I think that'd be over-the-top enough. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	full_metal_ox 2013-02-27 09:36 pm UTC (link)
	That's actually only about a couple millimeters away from Dave Sims's infamous Light-Sucking-Void rant. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	full_metal_ox 2013-02-27 10:02 pm UTC (link)
	:( Just because she has a name which looks unpronounceable (dur, did anyone ASK HER FIRST so Seth-the-douchebag could say it properly?) doesn't mean people have a right to treat her like crap. Just a thought: "Miss Wallis" would've been a reasonably safe (and courteous) option. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	starlady42 2013-03-01 03:39 am UTC (link)
	It's not even that unpronounceable. It's pretty phonetic. Qu-ven-zha-nay. (The e has an accent letting one know how to pronounce it.) I feel like people aren't even trying. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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