The sexually degrading jokes aimed at women we don’t like? They’re getting old. I’m looking at you, Matt Taibbi.
Now when I read [Michelle Malkin's] stuff, I imagine her narrating her text, book-on-tape style, with a big, hairy set of balls in her mouth. It vastly improves her prose.
Later in the comments he says:
“Michelle Malkin spouting those goofy right-wing platitudes of hers with a set of balls in her mouth is funny. You’re just going to have to accept that. There’s nothing either of us can do about it.”
Just… what Piny said, again and again.
via Deanna.
Matt Taibbi is a well-known misogynistic ass. There’s a reason he writes for Rolling Stone. And a reason that I (finally) recently canceled my subscription.
Matt Taibbi? Low-hanging fruit. What Cara said.
Dude was appalling in his eXile days, and still is. He’s also so full of frat-boy bravado and hubris even to this day –after his Russia misadventure– that it kind of amuses me.
Come on, how is a joke supposed to be funny if it’s not either misogynist, racist, hetero-sexist, cis-sexist, or anti-immigrant? If a percentage of the population isn’t degraded in the process, it can’t possibly be funny. And if you don’t think it’s funny, you’re just to sensitive. I’m sorry if you were offended.
Oh, I forgot ableist. That’s funny, too.
cf. his “About Me” section on the same page: “My main ambition in life is to someday strangle that chick in the Progressive Insurance commercials who is always waving her hands back and forth and screaming, “Discount!!!” Anyone who has suggestions for how to dump her body without being caught is welcome to write to me. I already have plenty of plastic and a staple-gun.”
yeah, the bad-boy-gonzo-etc. thing gets old reaallllll fast.
Thank you.
The thing is, I appreciate some of his journalism. This article from Rolling Stone clarified a lot for me, and other pieces of his have usefully broken down the economic crisis. Unfortunately, it always has to come with his misogynist Liberal blowhard witticisms. I don’t like them anymore coming from him than I do coming from Rush Limbaugh. And I really don’t really need to read that psychopaths on Wall Street “gang-rape[d] the American Dream” to frame the actual information he’s sharing. Ugh.
I always die a little when he appears on Rachel Maddow. There are far more intelligent and insightful people who can explain the economic shit-storm a lot more clearly and with less douche-populism than Matt Taibbi, many many many of whom have no trouble doing so without oppressive language.
I’m confused. Weren’t all the “teabagging” jokes really about fantasized sexual degradation of those people? Are we objecting to the sexual degradation or that the objects were often women? It would seem to me that fantasized sexual degradation of people regardless of gender is not a good thing – especially when, as here, the objects (male and female) probably would themselves object to having scrota indiscriminately dipped in their mouths, so part of the fantasy is the notion that the whole thing is forced on unwilling participants. The double entendre allows people to fantasize that Sean Hannity ordered a tea bag, thinking he was ordering a sachet of Orange Pekoe, only to find a scrotum in his mouth (at least initially) without his consent, right?
Honestly, I appreciate anything in Michelle Malkin’s mouth that keeps her from spewing more of her particularly irksome brand of hate speech, but I do see what you’re saying here.
Still, though, this pales in comparison to what’s going on on the “other side.” Here’s merely one example: [via Teablogging.net] Why Liberals Hate American Patriots
Be sure to scroll down to the part(s) about the angry, man-hating dagger lesbians.
“Weren’t all the “teabagging” jokes really about fantasized sexual degradation of those people?”
Most of the ones I’ve seen have revolved around the Fightin’ Teabaggers not knowing what the fuck it meant or the incongruity inherent in staid killjoys blustering and pontificating about how their massive public teaparties were going to radicalize/resurrect/reclaim the haterade-sipping, massively sexphobic conservative movement.
This guy is such an ass, I cancelled my HBO thanks to him on Bill Maher. They way he made fun of older women during Hillary’s campaign was shameful. I like to call him ‘frat boy’ because his dialogue is like out of a misogynistic frat house.
Matt’s problem is like most liberal men, he vastly overrates his intelligence and so thinks crap like this is even funny. Don’t compare him to Rush. At least Rush is somewhat creative in his humor. Jill, you need to start dating conservative guys – we know how to do things right.