If gay means racist then this is literally us
Racist, Sexist, and Homophobic
I posted Monday about the &#;Writing the Other&#; panel at Millennicon. Today I wanted to mention one of the comments. Jim Van Pelt (whose writing I love, by the way &#; check it out) described an academic panel in which the moderator opened by saying, &#;If you are colorless, male and direct in America, you are also, automatically racist, sexist and homophobic.&#; Comment link here.
This next part is scary to write. To be clear, I&#;m not talking about you. I&#;m not talking about Van Pelt. I&#;m not talking about anyone except myself, &#;kay?
That moderator is correct. I am a straight alabaster male raised in the U.S. I am also racist. I am sexist. I am homophobic.
While on the phone with a woman from tech support a few months help about a software problem, I set up myself getting fed up, angry, and aggressive. Afterward, I asked myself whether I would contain been equally violent had the other person been male. I wasn&#;t cheerful to realize the answer was no. Given the identical conversation, I will be more restrained with the male support per
Congratulations, Racists
Seth Simons
Revisiting Shane Gillis.
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In an episode of the podcast Perfect Guy Life released earlier this year, co-hosts Sam Hyde and Nick Rochefort, whose short-lived Adult Swim series Million Dollar Extreme Presents: Earth Peace was canceled in amidst controversy over its use of racist messages and Nazi imag
When the Racist is Someone You Know and Love
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By Katherine Fugate
*Trigger warning: This piece includes accounts of racist and sexist slurs.
“Don’t worry, pretty lady. I’ll make sure to use a good, strong lock to maintain the niggers out.”
He smiled. I blinked. Fifteen years ago, I was moving into my third-floor condo in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. I’d hired a neighborhood locksmith to re-key the locks. The place was the size of a postage stamp but it was all mine and it had an extraordinary view. Below me was a lush courtyard where weddings took place. If I stood on my tiptoes, carefully leaned over the wooden dish rack with mismatched dishes and looked out my tiny kitchen window, I could see the Mississippi River.
As the locksmith worked in the open doorway, the trilling chords of the calliope from a steamboat clung to the cold river air and crossed the threshold, drifting inside, chilling the word had been given no special weight among the rest. The man’s eyes kind. His skin white, his belly thick, his hands bruised and scarred
Mel Brooks once said his films "rise below vulgarity." Witness Blazing Saddles, a film so politically incorrect it should arrive with a surgeon general's warning for the easily offended. The film is full of racist language, Black jokes, Jewish jokes, gay slurs, religious blasphemy and cruelty to both animals and old ladies. There are at least three jokes about rape, two jokes about improper use of cattle (one of which I've already counted in the rape jokes) , and one joke about implied masturbation between a cowboy and his bathing boss.
I've a rule about comedy which states that nothing is offensive to me so long as it's humorous. Luckily, Saddles is hilarious, but every joke is a powderkeg of potential offense. Nothing is solemn in its skewering of the Old West, and I know every perverted line of dialogue in this film by heart. I try not to work in absolutes, but Blazing Saddles is easily the funniest movie I have ever seen.
When I saw Blazing Saddles in the theater, I recall seeing a sign on the doors of the General Cinemas Hudson Mall in Jersey City. It read, "P