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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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	queencallipygos 2013-02-26 09:58 pm UTC (link)
	I actually had this conversation with someone else - the aurochs stuff makes sense in context. The main character, Hushpuppy - who is only six - hears a story about aurochs and cavemen from someone, and the "aurochs" that appear in the movie after that are her own imagined version of what aurochs maybe looked like. So they're not really "real" aurochs. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	spawn_of_kong 2013-02-27 12:59 am UTC (link)
	Ah, that does make sense. Plus I hear that we may soon be seeing more auroch-like aurochs in future episodes/seasons of Game of Thrones, so it's all good. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

full_metal_ox
2013-02-27 09:51 pm UTC (link)

What Queen Callipygos said; ever see Tarsem Singh's The Fall? The film, set in early twentieth-century Los Angeles, deals with the friendship that develops between a six-year-old Eastern European immigrant girl and a Hollywood stuntman convalescing in the same hospital; a lot of screentime is devoted to the ongoing tall tale, very loosely based on the Western movie he'd been working on, that he makes up to amuse her.

The story-within-a-story is portrayed as Alexandria imagines it, with splendidly outrageous results; for example, her Old-World frame of reference casts the "Indian grieving for his squaw" as a turbaned, bearded, and scimitar-brandishing Asian, and Luigi the fireworks expert as a Chinese.

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