Sorry, it's a boy

[CELTICPRED]

I'm sure most of you were watching the Super Bowl today, and you saw the Sarah Silverman commercial where she hands a couple their baby and says "sorry it's a boy".

Why is this okay? Why take pot shots at men on a national level when they're trying their hardest to be seen as 'equal'?

This social justice stuff is a hilarious waste of time.

 

[KevanG]

And *Closed*.

Also, it's Sarah Silverman. She's only funny half the time.

 

[Sawyer]

I'm gonna tell you the same thing I wish more people would tell the hyper-feminists who get into an uproar over any minor joke they hear coming from a man and twist it into something really heinous.


It's a joke. Deal with it.

 

[Thundercrack85]

I missed the ad, what was the context?

 

[KevanG]

Sarah Silverman trying to be funny and failing is the context.

 

[Snow Queen]

And *Closed*.

Also, it's Sarah Silverman. She's only funny half the time.

That's being generous.

 

[Sawyer]

I think she's funny.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

I'm sure most of you were watching the Super Bowl today, and you saw the Sarah Silverman commercial where she hands a couple their baby and says "sorry it's a boy".

Why is this okay? Why take pot shots at men on a national level when they're trying their hardest to be seen as 'equal'?

Didn't see it but knowing Silverman I don't see how anyone could take that seriously at all. It's a joke brah.

This social justice stuff is a hilarious waste of time.

And yet now we have a thread on it. Yay!

I'm no fan of SJW's but c'mon guy.

I'm gonna tell you the same thing I wish more people would tell the hyper-feminists who get into an uproar over any minor joke they hear coming from a man and twist it into something really heinous.


It's a joke. Deal with it.

truth

That's being generous.

Also true.

 

[Apollo]

I thought the "fight like a girl" one was silly. I can tell you they deleted all the good ones.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

I'm sure most of you were watching the Super Bowl today, and you saw the Sarah Silverman commercial where she hands a couple their baby and says "sorry it's a boy".

Why is this okay? Why take pot shots at men on a national level when they're trying their hardest to be seen as 'equal'?

This social justice stuff is a hilarious waste of time.

I haven't seen it, but I'm mixed on this. It's subverting gender stereotypes that have traditionally valued male heirs over female heirs. But out of context, it probably is a bit vindictive.

 

[MadVillainy]

I wanna say "it's just a joke. Dealwithit"

But Im sure people would say the same thing if I got offended by a certain race joke with the n word in it or whatever

That being said It's just a joke

 

[Tempest]

Satire, when done right, can be highly entertaining.

That said, jokes that are intentionally mean for no other reason than to be mean, or as a kind of 'revenge' are not funny.

I missed that commercial, but since it's Sara Silverman, I'm comfortable going with the idea that it wasn't funny, and that it was inappropriately mean.

 

[PacificBoy]

I haven't seen it, but I'm mixed on this. It's subverting gender stereotypes that have traditionally valued male heirs over female heirs. But out of context, it probably is a bit vindictive.

As a Chinese I found it amusing. t:

I just saw the commercial and I think people who are fixated on that one line didn't catch the actual joke. There's a double-subversion at play: The line itself is throwaway gender-subversive but it's said by a very visibly pretentious person. Sarah Silverman and Chelsea Handler's self-important characters were trying to one-up each other throughout, "can talk anywhere in my mansion", "you sound great in my hydroponic kale garden", "reception's great in my subterranean petting zoo", "it's crystal clear from my trophy room" (and there's only one trophy), "all clear in my figure-skating basement", "sounds great in my underground delivery room" (and that's where the line comes in).

 

[Victarion]

I thought she was apologizing to the parents for being on the phone.

 

[PacificBoy]

I thought she was apologizing to the parents for being on the phone.

Possibly, but the reaction on the parents' faces suggest otherwise. Are people really upset by this? People take offence too readily.

 

[SuperFerret]

Well, it's probably because that child is probably going to grow up to be an abusive misogynist. Duh.

 

[KevanG]

Jeez Ferret, we all understood that.

 

[SuperFerret]

Hey, we need commercials warning people that accidents can happen in the home. Who knows what else needs to be spelled out to people?

 

[KevanG]

You haven't seen the warning labels on things have you? My dad had a snowblower manual that said 'Do not use on Roof'.

 

[Victarion]

I hear the working title for this one was "The Slap Begins."

 

[Lily Adler]

Cause men pee in the shower when we want to take a relaxing bath.

 

[Shikamaru]

I'll start off by saying that I'm one of the most anti-feminists persons I've ever known, particularly towards the radical third wave feminism that emerged in the 90's (I take no issue whatsoever with the initial goals and values of the movement).

However, in this case, even I would be the first to state there's no reason to make a fuss about this.

I'll post the commercial so we can analyze the statement in context:
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I don't think it's meant to take pot shots at men. I think it's made pretty clear she is referring to the person on the phone that she is talking with. Who clearly isn't a boy, but it's played off as a clever excuse to be on the phone with someone while delivering a baby. Immediately after, we see the couple'a reaction, but it seems to be more of a reaction towards Silverman's statement than towards the idea it's a boy. That's just my read on it.

However, let's say for the sake of argument that it was exactly what we're entertaining it to be - a potshot taken at men from the feminazi community.

Even then, so what?

The beautiful thing about a free country is that it allows anyone to voice their opinion regardless of how popular or unpopular it is. Freedom of speech doesn't exist to protect the majority opinion, which in almost all cases doesn't need protecting, it's there to protect the minority one as well.

The problem wouldn't be that they put such type of joke on TV, but that the other side wouldn't have the luxury to do the same. In practice, it should be perfectly okay for anyone to make these sorts of jokes on TV. The solution isn't to censor the feminist side, but to uncensor the other one. Censoring the feminist side would be just an extreme reaction to an extreme situation, and wouldn't really solve anything in the long run.

 

[Travesty]

I thought it was funny, Sarah Silverman is hilarious. Although, going on twitter, and seeing a bunch of feminists praise the joke, and end their tweets with #feminism, #sexism, #sorryitsaboy is probably 100x more funny than the actual commercial itself. Gotta love that new wave of feminist "equality".

But I thought the commercial was funny. Nothing wrong with it.

 

[Feenix]

I don't find Sarah Silverman funny, but I do like the commercials that are trying to break the stereotypes surrounding girls (and how they run and how they throw, etc).

 

[SuperFerret]

I'll start off by saying that I'm one of the most anti-feminists persons I've ever known, particularly towards the radical third wave feminism that emerged in the 90's (I take no issue whatsoever with the initial goals and values of the movement).