This is funny I was *just* telling my husband about the Frozen controversy and he was like... Really?? But why??? And then I wasn't sure I hadn't hallucinated the whole thing
I don't really get this article. If it's an attempt at satire, it falls very flat. It is not clear who or what it is satirizing. So, let me try to make sense of it.
The "author" is someone, supposedly a "male." Let's say "he" is a "cultural warrior." And he is hyper-concerned about how a "trad" culture is being appropriated by another culture. I'm not even sure that I could say a "non-white" culture. It's a lot like how Native Americans might feel about their culture being appropriated by a non-Native American culture. This person, in his hyper-sensitivity sees, to paraphrase a 50's meme, a communist under every bed. Every thing is interpreted through this lens.
How am I dong? So, I do see something like this resident in our culture on both and all sides of the divides. We have "woke" intrusions found in every kindergarten and white supremacist dog whistles found in every public pronouncement. Hardly any "innovation" or public pronouncement by politicians or any public figure passes unnoticed by the guardians of the Great Divide.
I watched SNL when it first came online. But I've stopped watching it a very long time ago. Maybe I'm just getting old (older?), but I find it juvenile, what we used to do in school yards, teasing the fat kid or the one who has a speech impediment. It's too easy. Satire is a very fine art. If it's going to work, it has to hit everyone between the eyes. Otherwise, all you are doing is mocking, and there's no honor in that.
So, while I think my initial reaction to the article may have been too harsh. I'd still suggest that this is not CHH's forte, and not what she is best at. Just sayin'.
Having read other's responses, I see I am in the smallest of all minorities. I confess that my response is derived from a lifelong distaste for making fun of another person, no matter who they are (and I'm not really sure that any living enfleshed person is being targeted here). Maybe it's because I always imagine that it's me that is being outed.
The best way to read this, is to read it with Gaston’s, from Beauty And The Beast, voice in your head.
This is funny I was *just* telling my husband about the Frozen controversy and he was like... Really?? But why??? And then I wasn't sure I hadn't hallucinated the whole thing
Saturday morning satire. Love it!
I don't really get this article. If it's an attempt at satire, it falls very flat. It is not clear who or what it is satirizing. So, let me try to make sense of it.
The "author" is someone, supposedly a "male." Let's say "he" is a "cultural warrior." And he is hyper-concerned about how a "trad" culture is being appropriated by another culture. I'm not even sure that I could say a "non-white" culture. It's a lot like how Native Americans might feel about their culture being appropriated by a non-Native American culture. This person, in his hyper-sensitivity sees, to paraphrase a 50's meme, a communist under every bed. Every thing is interpreted through this lens.
How am I dong? So, I do see something like this resident in our culture on both and all sides of the divides. We have "woke" intrusions found in every kindergarten and white supremacist dog whistles found in every public pronouncement. Hardly any "innovation" or public pronouncement by politicians or any public figure passes unnoticed by the guardians of the Great Divide.
I watched SNL when it first came online. But I've stopped watching it a very long time ago. Maybe I'm just getting old (older?), but I find it juvenile, what we used to do in school yards, teasing the fat kid or the one who has a speech impediment. It's too easy. Satire is a very fine art. If it's going to work, it has to hit everyone between the eyes. Otherwise, all you are doing is mocking, and there's no honor in that.
So, while I think my initial reaction to the article may have been too harsh. I'd still suggest that this is not CHH's forte, and not what she is best at. Just sayin'.
Having read other's responses, I see I am in the smallest of all minorities. I confess that my response is derived from a lifelong distaste for making fun of another person, no matter who they are (and I'm not really sure that any living enfleshed person is being targeted here). Maybe it's because I always imagine that it's me that is being outed.
legit I thought this was a guest post. I should have known Cameron Hearst Helmsley was behind it
Hahahah very funny
For anyone who doesn't get what this article is satirizing, here is a prime example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kSimEe6-Yw