# Blazing Saddles reaction essay **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 22, 2019, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-reaction-essay/842138 "2019-10-22T15:41:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-reaction-essay/842138/21 "2019-10-22T17:03:08Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > I don’t see anyone shitting on her for being a college student, I see people shitting on her for having and sharing an ill-informed, ignorant opinion about a movie she clearly _completely_ misunderstood. If that’s all it was, that would be one thing. What I see is people shitting on the strawman society constructed in her image. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-reaction-essay/842138/22 "2019-10-22T17:06:16Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > You’ve got to remember that Bethany is just a simple farmer. A person of the land. ---
**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-reaction-essay/842138/23 "2019-10-22T17:11:19Z")
> [@Reeses\_Monkey](#): > > The OP (me) was simply quoting a commonly-held belief. I have heard it said in many places that today’s “snowflakes” are unable to appreciate older works because they don’t have the experience or knowledge of the culture during the time a work was made. Yes, it’s confirmation bias. It was also a joke. You mean the snowflakes who were offended by both room scenes with toilets? The same ones who were offended by married couples sleeping in the same bed? The same ones offended by an inter-racial kiss? Oh wait, those snowflakes weren’t “today’s snowflakes” at. Older generations were just as easily offended back in the day. They were just offended by even dumber shit. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-reaction-essay/842138/24 "2019-10-22T17:18:53Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > I gotta see her review of Huckleberry Finn. “He used the N-word, like, so many times! Literally a billion times! And I was, like, you know? We shouldn’t be using that word” ---
**Author:** ![MindsEye\_Watering](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindseye_watering/32/3619_2.png) [@MindsEye\_Watering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MindsEye_Watering)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-reaction-essay/842138/25 "2019-10-22T17:19:39Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > You’ve got to remember that Bethany is just a simple farmer. The common clay of the new West. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-reaction-essay/842138/26 "2019-10-22T17:20:21Z")
Oh, that blogger has her opinion. That movie was meant to be shocking and gratuitous, what, 40ish years ago? We’ve come a long way in that time, and it does not surprise me that younger people today are extra shocked by it. I’d be curious to see reviews from the 70s about Blazing Saddles. I’d bet that there were similar opinions then, too. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-reaction-essay/842138/27 "2019-10-22T17:30:21Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Oh, that blogger has her opinion. That movie was meant to be shocking and gratuitous, what, 40ish years ago? We’ve come a long way in that time, and it does not surprise me that younger people today are extra shocked by it. > I’d be curious to see reviews from the 70s about Blazing Saddles. I’d bet that there were similar opinions then, too. it’s not about being “shocked,” it’s the insistence that “you can’t joke about racism!” ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-reaction-essay/842138/28 "2019-10-22T17:40:36Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > it’s not about being “shocked,” it’s the insistence that “you can’t joke about racism!” Trying to paint this as some unique problem to young people today is utterly ridiculous, though. What about everyone who got offended when an athlete wouldn’t stand for the national anthem? We’re they all “Today’s Audience” too? ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-reaction-essay/842138/29 "2019-10-22T17:51:56Z")
I can at least say that Blazing Saddles was required viewing this semester in my friend’s college film course. I’m not sure what the professor is saying about the film but it’s still out there. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-reaction-essay/842138/30 "2019-10-22T17:56:43Z")
What I find annoying about the essay is that the author denies finding the movie funny. Okay, I can accept that. What I don’t accept is the whole ‘I don’t find this movie funny, therefore I am a superior person who would never find racism funny.’ attitude that oozes from the author. ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-reaction-essay/842138/31 "2019-10-22T17:56:47Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > Um, it’s an article on medium. What will OP bitch about next? Their second cousin’s facebook post? > > Also the author is clearly a college student so good job shitting on someone literally learning how to do media criticism. Real classy. As a Broadcast Journalism major who was the movie reviewer for my college paper, I think I have the ability to recognize what Bethany is doing. I’m not “shitting on her,” I’ve been there. ---
**Author:** ![Chingon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chingon/32/17645_2.png) [@Chingon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chingon)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-reaction-essay/842138/32 "2019-10-22T18:03:10Z")
I do enjoy the irony of someone actively searching for examples of people “looking for reasons to be outraged”, so that they can then be outraged about the outrage. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-reaction-essay/842138/33 "2019-10-22T18:33:41Z")
> [@Chingon](#): > > I do enjoy the irony of someone actively searching for examples of people “looking for reasons to be outraged”, so that they can then be outraged about the outrage. I’m outraged you said that! ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-reaction-essay/842138/34 "2019-10-22T18:38:19Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > I can at least say that Blazing Saddles was required viewing this semester in my friend’s college film course. I’m not sure what the professor is saying about the film but it’s still out there. well, it is in the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry as “culturally significant.” ---
**Author:** ![Patch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-reaction-essay/842138/35 "2019-10-22T19:24:55Z")
> [@glee](#): > > Although Blazing Saddles is jolly amusing, I think there is one scene that means it should be banned instantly. :eek: > > In these worrying days of climate change, consider the cowboys eating beans around the campfire. > These people are putting methane into the atmosphere! :smack: I’d be worried about a fuel-air explosion, but the methane concentration was probably too high. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![eunoia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eunoia/32/97_2.png) [@eunoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eunoia)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-reaction-essay/842138/36 "2019-10-22T19:38:57Z")
Bethany’s been blogging for 2 years and has 8 followers, if she wants to be taken more seriously as a movie c\*\*\*\*c, rogerebert.cc is available and could easily triple that number. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-reaction-essay/842138/37 "2019-10-22T20:25:28Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > Trying to paint this as some unique problem to young people today is utterly ridiculous, though. What about everyone who got offended when an athlete wouldn’t stand for the national anthem? We’re they all “Today’s Audience” too? I see that you have mastered the art of [whataboutism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism). ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-reaction-essay/842138/38 "2019-10-22T20:30:40Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > I see that you have mastered the art of [whataboutism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism). From your link, > [@Wikipedia](#): > > Whataboutism, also known aswhataboutery, is a variant of thetu quoquelogical fallacy that attempts to discredit an opponent’s position by charging them withhypocrisy _without directly refuting or disproving their argument_ Emphasis mine. The argument I am addressing is that “Today’s Audience” is too easily offended. Showing that a group that’s pretty much the polar opposite of “Today’s Audience” is just as easily offended IS directly refuting the argument. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-reaction-essay/842138/39 "2019-10-22T21:05:33Z")
> [@Chingon](#): > > I do enjoy the irony of someone actively searching for examples of people “looking for reasons to be outraged”, so that they can then be outraged about the outrage. Hardly outraged. Mostly disappointed. The thread title promised a reaction essay to Blazing Saddles and I was looking forward to a real nice 40 years on retrospective on a movie that I enjoy. Instead I got a fart and a “hurr durr this girl is so stupid”. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-reaction-essay/842138/40 "2019-10-22T21:13:53Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > If it is intended as humour then full marks for subtlety but C- for actual laughs. If meant to be funny, the article is an F. If meant to be a Poe’s Law self-referencing circular “wait, is it Poe’s or not Poe’s?”, then A++. This reminds me of the Pit thread about sealion-ing, where some posters couldn’t even tell if they or others were sealioning in a discussion about sealioning. The head starts to run in circles and hurt. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-reaction-essay/842138.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-reaction-essay/842138.md?page=3)