If you think, as this guy apparently does, that our society “panders to women’s every whim,” and if you express that view in public, you might get burned for it, as happened here:
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Sometimes a reasoned debate just isn’t in the cards. That applies to about 98% of what MRA’s say, as far as I’m concerned. (The remaining 2% mostly relate to food and other necessities of daily survival.) I’ll just let Liz Lemon close this out:
Via Huffington Post
The latest gaffe (metedura de pata en español) from the Romney camp involves a question of skin tone. I honestly cannot believe I am writing this.
Mitt Romney appeared to be a touch more tanned during an TV interview for Spanish-language channel Univision on Wednesday, prompting suggestions the Republican leader had piled on the make up to make himself more appealing to Latino voters.
I desperately want to call bullshit on this, so that I may continue to cling to a modicum of sanity in this world.
I’m not the only one. Adam Mordechai at Upworthy posits a few hypotheses, and I fully expect to see some good SNL skits about this soon. I just have two comments to direct to the floundering presidential candidates.
1. Don’t refer to anyone as an “illegal alien.” I would say don’t do that on Univision (seriously, what is wrong with you?) in particular, but just don’t say it anywhere.
2. You’ve got a meme here, Señor. I say own it. If you have the ability to transition between former Massachusetts Governor Romney and Generalissimo Romney, you need to own that shit. You might not be the first Generalissimo, but you could be the greatest.
As far as I am concerned, 30 Rock and Community are two of the greatest sitcoms of the past few decades. That could just be that the sitcom format has evolved to the point where the bizarre meta-narrative offered by these shows is one of the few original ideas left. Community has a brilliant ability to dangle standard sitcom tropes in your face, make you think you know where the show is going, and then surprise you. 30 Rock is a television comedy about television comedy, always skirting the event horizon of its own humorous singularity. I’m not good at cosmological metaphors, so I hope that made sense.
Anyway, both shows have persisted despite, as the hipsters might say, being too good for the TV masses. Community even made a triumphant comeback from the brink of semi-cancellation. Still, it’s disappointingly unsurprising that NBC may “gently” cancel both shows, along with the almost-as-brilliant Parks and Recreation:
A trio of devastating television developments today: NBC reportedly plans to raze 75 percent of its beloved Thursday-night comedy lineup. The rumored casualties: 30 Rock, Community, and Parks and Recreation—all three of which represent some of the smartest (if only moderately watched) comedic output by any network right now. Instead of canceling the shows outright, the Peacock network will reportedly announce shortened final seasons for each at next week’s annual “upfront” presentation in New York City. The fourth Thursday-night sitcom, The Office, which is in its eight season, is predicted to remain on the air.
Bite me, NBC.
