But… you haven’t!
How can we ever trust anything you say again?
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Yea, but it was intended as a joke.
Just because I didn’t know the gun was loaded doesn’t mean it’s my fault! Get a sense of humor, Mrs. Lincoln.
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Hrm.
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Looking at the guy’s twitter, it looks like it was not a joke of any kind after all. My guess is the reason they didn’t handle it sooner was they didn’t see it as a problem until the emails started coming in. And the reason they didn’t wait until after the broadcast is they handled the whole thing poorly.
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But the not-hurt feelings of the person who is the butt of the joke can be due to socialization or inexperience. That’s like saying if someone is drugged and then raped but doesn’t remember anything that happened once they wake up (and doesn’t contract any diseases or get pregnant), then ‘no harm, no foul’. It’s still wrong, even if the victim doesn’t recognize the problem.
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Did anyone else see this as a crash blossom?
(LA news show slut / shames weather forecaster / on air)
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We can’t talk about this anymore until it’s the biggest issue left to fix.
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Cuz we are out to change the world up in here, definitely not just venting a little at a culture that is indisputably EXTREMELY sexist, racist, and classist. BUT THERE IS SO MUCH AT STAKE HERE IF WE ARE WRONG!!! BECAUSE THIS ONE INCIDENT DETERMINES WHETHER SEXISM IS REAL OR JUST BOINGBOINGERS BEING SJW’S!!! I hope you get to the bottom of it.
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I now feel like BoingBoing really needs to step up its “cruel jokes at Moth’s expense” game.
sooo whens the retraction boing boing?
"Internet overreacts without looking into context"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8FLNs0yA6w
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Oh, so her employer says it was ‘satire’. Sounds legit. Kind of sounds to me like that dude that makes racist jokes, then decides whether he was kidding based on whether people laugh or not.
Edit: Also, examining the groups of offended, we have:
- Those initially offended by the ‘inappropriate’ dress.
- Those offended that she was handed a sweater, on air, and put on the spot in a rude way.
- Those offended at group two, who believe group twos members are being hypersensitive ‘social justice warriors’.
I think it’s pretty easy to see where the cream is in that douchebag sandwich cookie.
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Don’t let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya!
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Especially when the feelings of the person at the center of the joke could result in indirect/indiscreet retaliation if not complementary to that person’s employer. She looked genuinely surprised and baffled when handed the sweater. I don’t buy that it was some jokey trade-off.
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“Please allow us to mansplain why this isn’t sexist.”
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If she gets nasty emails, and her coworkers throw her under the bus because of it over the dress, imagine the emails she would get if she doesn’t just “roll with the punches” on this one, and decides to not play along with the casual double standards and sexism of broadcast news. (Don’t imagine those emails. Take a nap, wash the dishes, anything else…)
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I’m so glad the biggest issue left to fix is us discussing televised sexism.
Not the sexism that exists in pop culture, the discussion of sexism on BoingBoing. That is the worst. Thank god @cinquante_sept is here to tell us what is most important in life, he’s doing God’s tireless work.
I bet when he hangs his coat up, he can truly tell himself that this was the most important thing he can do in life, how to do the most good, and by goodness he made a difference and there wasn’t anything more constructive to do with his time but chime in on how we were wasting time on this issue.
The world is that much better for his continued, totally nuanced chiding and we have finally discovered that we were wrong, it was a “joke”, and sexism has never entered the picture at all.
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Hey, Hey. Let’s not all get hysterical here.
Oooh crap, the door is waaayy over there!
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I knowwwww but when people go out of their way to be so very helpful, it’s good for them to know their tireless efforts are appreciated.
I’ve been meaning to go to the mall and get a custom baseball cap made, with the cheapo iron on-letters. SJW and proud!
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