― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 14 November 2005 21:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Monday, 14 November 2005 21:07 (eighteen years ago) link
surely you are from the British Isles, then?
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 14 November 2005 21:31 (eighteen years ago) link
Sexism? It's merely concision.
― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 14 November 2005 21:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― petesmith (plsmith), Monday, 14 November 2005 21:58 (eighteen years ago) link
With "dominatrix" I think it's just that the sex matters more explicitly!
― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 14 November 2005 22:03 (eighteen years ago) link
I read that it was sexy hitler - funny and hot!
― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 14 November 2005 22:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 14 November 2005 22:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 14 November 2005 22:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Acid house girls and flowers (fandango), Monday, 14 November 2005 23:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Hairy Arms, Hairy Arms, Tuesday, 15 November 2005 00:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 01:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 01:32 (eighteen years ago) link
The modern word "sexism" doesn't really get at what's unsettling about Jewess/Negress, which has more to do with racism, alterity, and the droit de seigneur. The linguistic sexism is trivial; the loaded element is its implied subhuman sexualization of the object - as jaymc notes, it places her in a different species altogether (the oh-so-asking-for-it female counterpart of the leering, hooknosed Ashkenazi or the robust and rapacious Negro punished with death for daring to look a white woman in the eye.)
Let's ask JP Sartre! "There is in the words 'a beautiful Jewess' a very special sexual signification, one quite different from that contained in the words 'beautiful Rumanian,' 'beautiful Greek,' or 'beautiful American,' for example. This phrase carries an aura of rape and massacre..."
(Sarah Silverman is of course funny and fine. A little wax works wonders.)
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 01:58 (eighteen years ago) link
I do think Lenny Bruce became MUCH less funny once weighed down with legal matters and smack, but arrests aside there was more derring-do in his approach than SS's, which seem on the 'meta' side (again, I haven't seen more than a few minutes of her).
On the non-hot side, one more "interesting but not-so-funny" view (he DOES think she challenges liberals, like Bruce):
http://www.chicagoreader.com/movies/archives/2005/1105/051111.html
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 21:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 21:46 (eighteen years ago) link
.......uhh
― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 15 November 2005 23:20 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.moviepoopshoot.com/interviews/images/sarah/sarahbutt.jpg
― Sarah Silverman Must Die, Tuesday, 15 November 2005 23:36 (eighteen years ago) link
*a lot of time, and not a lot of other-person's-ass
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 01:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― recovering optimist (Royal Bed Bouncer), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 01:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 02:09 (eighteen years ago) link
http://photos1.blogger.com/img/85/2126/640/jews.jpg
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 14:09 (eighteen years ago) link
Oh yes, incessant worrying. It took me weeks just to formulate my own opinion of her, let alone make assumptions about her own opinion of herself. Believe me, it is very time-consuming. Fortunately for me, my schedule is not bogged down with other-person's-ass.
― Sarah Silverman Must Die, Wednesday, 16 November 2005 14:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 17 July 2006 21:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Monday, 17 July 2006 22:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― pleased to mitya (mitya), Monday, 17 July 2006 23:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 00:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 00:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 02:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 02:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 02:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 02:23 (eighteen years ago) link
One thing: her bit in The Aristocrats was not only funny, it was truly disturbing (in a good way, I think, but I'm not entirely sure of that). I believe that what she's brought up front and centre -- alongside the aforementioned white-chick-making-racist-jokes shtick -- is the relatively unexplored humour of post-traumatic stress, the thousand yard standup. She's not alone in this, but ever since the likes of Stephen King articulated it, and Sam Raimi visualised it, the idea of screaming while laughing (while puking, while dissociating?) has gathered a certain amount of force. Personally -- and this is entirely opinion, of course -- I love that SS does this with a (distractingly superficial) sass and perkiness. More fucking power to whatever she's trying to do, ha ha.
(She needs to write more jokes, though.)
― David A. (Davant), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 02:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 02:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 02:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sundar (sundar), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 04:30 (eighteen years ago) link
she was the voice of:
http://www.sassman.com/katz/scans/laura-hands.jpg
― kingfish cyclopean ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 04:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― timmy tannin (pompous), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 05:03 (eighteen years ago) link
She's hot, but I'll have to see Jesus Is Magic before I decide about the funny.
― Marmot 4-Tay: what those guyz make music 4. (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 05:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― honey with ice pants (kenan), Friday, 2 February 2007 03:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― honey with ice pants (kenan), Friday, 2 February 2007 03:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 2 February 2007 03:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― honey with ice pants (kenan), Friday, 2 February 2007 03:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 2 February 2007 04:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― timmy tannin (pompous), Friday, 2 February 2007 04:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Friday, 2 February 2007 05:31 (seventeen years ago) link