nflstreet:

comedian: *tells a good joke*

tumblr user in the back: HAHAHA WHAT A SHITPOST

drunken-rambling:

feminismshmeminism:

micdotcom:

President Obama takes a stand against “coddling” college students

On Monday, President Barack Obama held a town hall in Des Moines, Iowa, on college financial aid. During a Q-and-A session, he delved into the contentious national debate over the so-called new political correctness. He didn’t use hotly contested terms like “trigger warning” or “microaggressions,” but he points to the greater idea as being problematic.

Well this is going to throw some of my followers curve ball, lol

Huzzah!

A MILLION TIMES YES.

(Source: mic.com)

thetallblacknerd:

*yearns for the days when I could watch cartoons and not hear people turn it into a thesis on the current social climate and power struggles*

thetallblacknerd:

Lmao so the majority of the games shown let you be either but we can’t have that now can we?

banderboucher:

(Boring asshole voice) it’s like….the more connected we are to our smartphones….the less connected to humanity we are…..(aggressively chugs own dick)

diarrheaworldstarhiphop:

salon:

Yesterday, Jerry Seinfeld — a famously “clean” comic known for staying away from controversial issues — issued some strong words on the topic of political correctness. After stating that political correctness is hurting comedy and railing on college kids for being too sensitive on an ESPN podcast, he later went on Seth Meyers to say that “there’s a creepy PC thing out there that really bothers me,” because some of his old routines riffing on gay men no longer play well with audiences.

Jerry Seinfeld’s not the only stand-up who’s upset

“We are addicted to the rush of being offended.” We are. it’s not enough to just, walk away, ignore the comedy that upsets us. We arent FORCED to sit through routines or the tweets a comic we don’t follow made, we aren’t FORCED to read gawker articles about it either, we read them because WE are seeking a reason to be upset rather than choose to maintain a safe space we built for ourselves. We opt to project our insecurities and demand people condescend to us.

we force those around us to bow to our entitlement complexes. People who never would attend a comedy show for Seinfeld are demanding he alter his behaviour for their insecure personal tastes. The people who are furious at Seinfeld and other standups are not people who really ever attend standup routines, these are people who are content to sit at home and shitpost on twitter about how upset they are for all their peers to see, to get a rush from the favourites and retweets that pour in from their witty sarcasm and righteousness. They are truly addicted to GETTING MAD, they aren’t merely coming across these things that crashed their safe space.

These issues came to a head with the recent Trevor Noah flap, in which people dug up a number of old sexist and racist tweets belonging to the soon-to-be “Daily Show” host. While Noah was roundly criticized in the media, a number of comics came to his defense, arguing that the problem wasn’t Noah’s bad jokes, but an overly sensitive public. As Jim Norton wrote in Time, “Trevor, while tweeting things with the intention of being funny, had gone … yes, you guessed it – over the line!… In his rush to be funny, he had broken what has become the new golden rule in American public life, which is to never say anything (or, God forbid, joke about anything) that may be deemed even remotely offensive or upsetting by any segment of the population for any reason thoroughly addicted to.”

This is very important because some people, upon hearing that relative nobody Trevor Noah was replacing Jon Stewart, set about scouring his whole internet history to find reasons to dump on him.

Who the fuck does that aside from someone obsessed with finding things to be upset about, what the fuck. The left has an addiction to getting offended, let’s stop pretending it isn’t so because if that weren’t the case, the left wouldn’t be concerning itself so fucking much about LOOK WHAT FOX NEWS SAID TODAY!! which accomplishes fucking little then making everyone look like petulant, fragile grownup children.

Comedians, like any professional, build their career around testing jokes and routines, and with that comes mistakes and, naturally, bad jokes. But they aren’t making jokes for the writers of jezebel, they are making jokes for those who want to have to comfort zones challenged, dancing that fine line is where gut punch laughter comes from. Alot of humour comes from what’s unexpected or pushing a taboo, or yes, offending someone, because even when you are wanting to joke about fox news or something a republican said, you would be offending a conservative in the process. But why is their offense no matter but your offense dire and truly worth condescending to? To concede offense is to declare how feeble and insecure you are. Your strength and so called righteousness revealed to be farce which must be buttressed by the control of language of those around you.

Yes it’s possible to produce a joke that isn’t inflammatory but you wouldn’t know what is or isn’t unless you test that infront of a crowd, which is what comedians have to do, and yet they are now punished immensely so for trying.

In an interview with Frank Rich in New York Magazine, Chris Rock said he stopped playing colleges because they are too conservative: “Not in their political views — not like they’re voting Republican — but in their social views and their willingness not to offend anybody.” He also discussed how the prevalence of social media forces comedians into self-censorship. As he put it: “It is scary, because the thing about comedians is that you’re the only ones who practice in front of a crowd. Prince doesn’t run a demo on the radio. But in stand-up, the demo gets out. There are a few guys good enough to write a perfect act and get onstage, but everybody else workshops it and workshops it, and it can get real messy. It can get downright offensive. Before everyone had a recording device and was wired like fucking Sammy the Bull, you’d say something that went too far, and you’d go, “Oh, I went too far,” and you would just brush it off. But if you think you don’t have room to make mistakes, it’s going to lead to safer, gooier stand-up. You can’t think the thoughts you want to think if you think you’re being watched.”

Scott Capurro, the fiercely polemical comic wrote a long screed about political correctness in Time Out, arguing for the importance of pushing boundaries, especially from his vantage point as a gay comedian seeking to “test audiences and see if words could change their perceptions.” As he put it, “I don’t ever want the audience to know what side I’m on. I’ve got no sides. I’m trying to deliver more than one argument. I’m like the US Army: I don’t take a position, I’m just there to help clear up this mess of confusion about political correctness, because there is none. Everyone’s boundaries are different, thank Goddess. If we all agreed, nothing would be funny. If at least parts of the crowd aren’t shaking or angry by the end of my set, they haven’t got their money’s worth and I feel a bit dirty, like I’ve let down the contingency of cantankerous, crabby, clarifying comics by smothering myself in sticky, gooey kindness.” He concluded that “comics shed light. We’re as necessary as a lightbulb, yet harder to replace.”

Lisa Lampanelli, the edgy comic wrote a piece in the Hollywood Reporter titled “How Political Correctness is Killing Comedy,” writing “Here’s the problem: Comedy, probably more than any other art form, is subjective. What jokes crack up your mom, your little brother, and your gay best friend will be completely different — unless it’s a video of a guy getting hit in the gonads with a piñata stick. That’s funny to everyone….If you like safe, generic comedy, that’s fine. Go on a cruise ship and crack up listening to the comedian point out the hilarious differences between loafers and shoes with laces. But don’t go to one of my shows and be outraged by what you hear. Going to my show and expecting me not to cross the line of good taste and social propriety is like going to a Rolling Stones concert and expecting not to hear ‘Satisfaction.’”

(Source: salon.com)

thetallblacknerd:

Y’all focus too much on labels and not enough on the actions of people tbh. Like being  a feminist or christian or w/e doesn’t really mean shit if you do fucked up things ya know? I could be a teacher, that doesn’t exempt me from being racist,sexist,bigoted or anything negative. People use labels far to often as a way to deflect any sort of criticism.

judal-is-my-spirit-animal:

feministingforchange:

lil-purrfect-femme:

For once, men need to see how it feels to be living in rape culture every day.

Since it’s very difficult for women to actually hurt men, they should be allowed to rape men who promote rape culture.

This way- if men continue to promote rape culture after being raped, they’ll have to think about not just all women, but themselves. Taste of their own medicine.

I’m not afraid to stand up for my rights

THIS IS NOT FEMINIST, THIS IS GROSS AF!!! NEVER WISH RAPE OR ANY OTHER VIOLENCE UPON ANYONE ELSE EVER, FOR ANY REASON EVER, GOT IT?!?!!? 

Also, men get raped too so don’t even pretend they don’t know what it feels like. Go after RAPE CULTURE, don’t attack individual men or wish/commit harm upon them. That’s petty, wrong, gross, and (i can’t stress this enough) incredibly unfeminist. 

(Source: lil-purrfect-femme-blog)

thetallblacknerd:

champagnepepes:

allores:

sometimes you gotta remind your man he ain’t the only one that want you

follow for more emotionally abusive relationship tips 

Doubtful the people cosigning this have a man

fhoantells:

“I just want Bruce Lee to hold me as long as he can.”

I’m dying.

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That’s so cute