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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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seperis
2013-02-28 05:04 am UTC (link)

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

When I was a kid (ie, the eighties), there was an entire massive industry for backpacks and little girls purses in animal form. I know this because I was in fourth grade, his name was Rococo, and he was a racoon backpack. A very small backpack that could hold one (1) book and all my pencils, but his arms wrapped around my shoulders and I felt his love all day.

I know that is beside the point, but that is the most random thing I have read like, ever. Especially considering the Etsy frog-purse, made from a real, whole frog, mouth as opening. Which thanks to this post, will re-invade my nightmares tonight. Goddammit.

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queencallipygos
2013-02-28 03:30 pm UTC (link)

My niece apparently received a puppy purse as a gift from someone this Christmas and digs it. (She is four, so who the hell knows what she puts in it.)

I checked out the web site for the maker of Quevanzhane's puppy purses yesterday - and if you log on now, the very first thing you see is a temporary splash screen apologizing that they are totally and utterly and completely sold out, but they're working like crazy to make more and here leave us your email so we can let you know when we're ready...so I think that this is now a trend that Quevanzhane has revived singlehandedly.

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	seperis 2013-03-05 02:53 am UTC (link)
	...Quevanzhane is basically creating new ways to be awesome. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	queencallipygos 2013-02-28 03:32 pm UTC (link)
	Oh - and I was a teenager in the 80's and got a koala backpack myself as a gift. From my aunt, who had one herself. (She had season tickets to New England Patriots home games and would bring it, and got to be known for it amongst the other season ticketholders to the point that when she forgot it once strangers were asking her "where's your bear?") (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	seperis 2013-03-05 02:54 am UTC (link)
	dies laughing I miss Rococo so much right now. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	anthologia 2013-03-01 08:18 pm UTC (link)
	I still have a bengal tiger backpack. :3 I found it on a mad cleaning spree last summer, so I cleaned her up, named her Pandora, and started using it again, sometimes, though it doesn't hold much. It's even staring down at me from its place with my purses with its cute little face and paws. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	seperis 2013-03-05 02:52 am UTC (link)
	You have no idea how envious I am right now. I'm seriously missing Rococo; he's now the perfect size for a large purse. An awesome large purse. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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