# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-reaction-essay/842138/41 "2019-10-22T21:37:59Z")
I find that comedy tends to age poorly. In the 1980s I loved _Revenge of the Nerds_ (1984) but these days I’d have a hard time being amused by panty raids, setting up cameras to watch women undress, and of course disguising oneself in order to have sex with an unsuspecting woman. I have fond memories of _The Monster Squad_ (1987) but I rewatched it a few years back and was floored by some of the homophobic comments made by the kids. I don’t imagine too many people would be happy with chubby little Horace wielding a shotgun to kill Gill-Man but I appreciated how Dracula was a serious threat to the kids. Dude dynamited their tree house. Dracula does not fuck around. Even when old comedies aren’t offensive to modern sensibilities it oftentimes isn’t funny. So I won’t give this young lady a hard time. She grew up in a different era and the media she consumes is vastly different. ---
**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, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-reaction-essay/842138/42 "2019-10-22T23:10:41Z")
> [@MindsEye\_Watering](#): > > The common clay of the new West. You know…a moron. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-reaction-essay/842138/43 "2019-10-22T23:28:52Z")
Yep. That was totally written by a ‘Bethany’. ---
**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, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-reaction-essay/842138/44 "2019-10-22T23:44:55Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Yep. That was totally written by a ‘Bethany’. She has more essays that you can browse if you click on her name. Such as [this one](https://medium.com/@bethanyhegener/gender-roles-in-the-office-3adaf38063e2) and [this one](https://medium.com/@bethanyhegener/gender-in-the-dark-knight-rises-1ff51ef85c09). But I’m just impressed that she has the time to write these while working on her Rocket Science degree. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-reaction-essay/842138/45 "2019-10-23T00:03:38Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > 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”. Whatever fancy gadget it is that you have hooked up to your system, I don’t think it will catch on. my emphasis As for Bethany: I guess they publish anything on Medium? No editorial process at all, over there? ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-reaction-essay/842138/46 "2019-10-23T00:43:07Z")
I seriously laughed out loud at the quotes from the movie! ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-reaction-essay/842138/47 "2019-10-23T01:17:56Z")
> [@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. You know what, thanks. I had no idea what Medium was until now when you prompted me to look things up - but because of the urls and the logo atop Medium articles I’d read before I thought it was some sort of newspaper or broadcast corporation with paid staff and all. But it’s just New Blogger. This is literally just someone’s online self-published diary. So yeah, I’m deffo joining you in the “Who cares if that poor girl is Wrong on the Internet ?!” ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-reaction-essay/842138/48 "2019-10-23T03:02:17Z")
> [@Reeses\_Monkey](#): > > I guess it’s true: Today’s audience can’t handle the classics. [Blazing Saddles and Its Horrors](https://medium.com/@bethanyhegener/blazing-saddles-and-its-horrors-4ab0ff00d1ba) :smack::eek: Why doesn’t everyone like what you like? ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-reaction-essay/842138/49 "2019-10-23T15:33:44Z")
You bastards forced her to delete her review because of your hate. You are monsters! ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-reaction-essay/842138/50 "2019-10-23T15:41:25Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > You bastards forced her to delete her review because of your hate. You are monsters! If you looked at the comments there you could see it wasn’t just us. There was not one that didn’t echo the sentiments in this thread. ---
**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 23, 2019, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-reaction-essay/842138/51 "2019-10-23T15:44:48Z")
NotherYinzer wins! ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-reaction-essay/842138/52 "2019-10-23T15:51:14Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > I have fond memories of _The Monster Squad_ (1987) but I rewatched it a few years back and was floored by some of the homophobic comments made by the kids. I don’t imagine too many people would be happy with chubby little Horace wielding a shotgun to kill Gill-Man but I appreciated how Dracula was a serious threat to the kids. Dude dynamited their tree house. Dracula does not fuck around. Even when old comedies aren’t offensive to modern sensibilities it oftentimes isn’t funny. Yeah, but Wolfman has nards! ---
**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 23, 2019, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-reaction-essay/842138/53 "2019-10-23T16:44:57Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > If you looked at the comments there you could see it wasn’t just us. There was not one that didn’t echo the sentiments in this thread. Yeah, it was up to around 50 comments the last time I saw it, all in the last couple of days and largely from incels (there were mentions of Staceys and Chads.) ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-reaction-essay/842138/54 "2019-10-23T17:08:42Z")
It’s a funny movie, but not THAT funny. Mostly stupid funny. I prefer witty. But she is probably a dolt. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-reaction-essay/842138/55 "2019-10-23T17:17:57Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Yeah, it was up to around 50 comments the last time I saw it, all in the last couple of days and largely from incels (there were mentions of Staceys and Chads.) I only skimmed them. It was obvious no one shared her opinion, and now apparently even the nutcases could see how off base she was. ---
**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 23, 2019, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-reaction-essay/842138/56 "2019-10-23T17:29:45Z")
I think us oldsters don’t really understand the perspective of youngsters today. My stepdaughter is 21. She appreciates her own variety of humor. (John Mulaney is a fave of hers.) I guarantee that if I popped that movie in, her eyes would bug out and she would turn it off. ---
**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 23, 2019, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-reaction-essay/842138/57 "2019-10-23T17:35:58Z")
Oh, well–we still have [her review of _Friends_](https://medium.com/@bethanyhegener/so-no-one-told-you-life-was-gonna-be-this-way-6d346c63689a): > [@](#): > > The ways in which relationships were demonstrated throughout this series also seemed unhealthy and it was obvious that the writers and producers for the show weren’t concerned with the social issues that occurred through the demonstrations of these relationships between the characters and their other acquaintances. ---
**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 23, 2019, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-reaction-essay/842138/58 "2019-10-23T17:37:53Z")
(And now I’m thinking _Woke Friends_ would make a great recurring skit on _SNL_.) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-reaction-essay/842138/59 "2019-10-23T18:49:12Z")
> [@Reeses\_Monkey](#): > > I guess it’s true: Today’s audience can’t handle the classics. [Blazing Saddles and Its Horrors](https://medium.com/@bethanyhegener/blazing-saddles-and-its-horrors-4ab0ff00d1ba) :smack::eek: ERROR 410 The author deleted this Medium story. ---
**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 23, 2019, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-reaction-essay/842138/60 "2019-10-23T18:59:35Z")
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