WE BETTER DRUMLINE!
Look, I’ve said my share of things. We all have. I’ve made jokes about blowjobs. I’ve dropped the n-bomb. The internet is nothing if not a dumping ground for the latent adolescent impulses of people who aren’t smart enough to have real ideas. But lately I’ve been getting extraordinarily fatigued by the tendency of virtually every “humorous” male blogger (with many exceptions, duh) to refer constantly to his desire to fuck all the pretty women and how hard his boner is over everything and the general attitude of frat boy sexuality as “comedic” trope. Can we please all give it a fucking rest already?
BREAKING NEWS, HUH.
I know that it’s boring and peevish to get worked up about the lazy stylistic choices of people who are just trying to eke out a couple of laughs by the end of the day, and you’ll notice that I’m choosing not to name any names or link any links, but seriously, you guys, get all of your shit together. It’s the 2009ies. In the words of Tom Scharpling, “we have a grown up president now, it’s time to grow up.” If this shit was ever cute, it is not cute anymore. The relentless and exhausting “voice” of the contemporary on-line-diarysphere is categorically misogynistic, homophobic, and racist, none of which stances I necessarily have a problem with if it was actually funny and/or had a wittily subversive commentary to make about misogyny, homophobia, or racism, but in general it absolutely is not and does not. If you were only to pay cursory attention you’d think the entire internet was written by a slightly meaner-spirited Seth MacFarlane. It’s just so much shit fuel poured on the fart fire. And also it is boring. We need a new general style guide for internet writing. I don’t know what that style guide will actually provide in the way of structural suggestions or tonal requirements, but I think the title will be “Actually Be Good At Writing, You Fucking Idiots.”
Oh look at me, Professor Blog giving a lecture on Pots Names For Kettles. Obviously, I should not have come back. My bads.
January 5th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
I don’t read those sorts of blogs (except Byron Crawford (and he’s bad enough)), but I feel you (nullus).
And I think you are smearing Seth MacFarlane. Compare the episode of Family Guy where Peter has to go to feminist reprogramming camp to the South Park where the boys go to…gay camp or whatever. You know the one I mean. SP uses a premise like that to take every opportunity for an obvious gay joke, whereas all of FG’s jokes are at Peter’s expense. Not to get all fanboyish, but his consistency on these kinds of jokes is actually the central pillar (nullus) to my MacFarlane apologia.
But also, more on topic this post on “one of the most undignified things that male privilege does to some men, which is causes them to think they’re funny when they’re not.”
January 5th, 2009 at 10:42 pm
MAN HOW ABOUT THAT GABE DELAHAYE? I’D SURE LIKE TO DROP SOMETHING IN HIS DRINK AND THEN SHOW HIM THE BOOBS THAT MAKE MILWAUKEE FAMOUS. SCHLITZ ON THAT, FAGAROOS!
PS BONERZ.
January 6th, 2009 at 12:31 am
@tps12
I think re: the problem with unfunny privileged men being confused about it has a lot to do with this study.
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