It’s Dame Edna! Relax.
Does the term “reflexively irate” occur to anyone else?
It’s a satire Chaco. Good satire is often shocking and/or offensive for a reason: it makes the reader think.
By the way, please avoid The Onion at all costs.
hawthorne - I was there during the republican referendum, and soooooooo wanted her nominated for the presidency!
Her or Mark Taylor. He’s just great.
I will be starting my own rant very soon. This board objective is fighting against ignorance. I can’t believe people are wasting precious bytes answering an stupid jerk who wouldn’t recognize satire if it picked up a shotgun, shove it up his ass and pulled the trigger 
A doper asked a question (If it was intended as a joke, sorry that I didn’t get it):
“Don Quixote” is the greatest novel of the greatest ibero-american writer Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616).
I usually think that Don is the spanish equivalent of the english “Sir” so it would be something like “Sir Quixote”. Of course that in latin america (where there is no nobility) it is use as a form of adress, a very respectfull one.
Anyway in the fight against ignorance you are either with me or against me, I don’t care what the moderators say. I will be doing everything I can to protect knowledge. No rules bind me, cause ignorance almost killed my Da (and I hate it for that, but that is another story) Anyway Op. Fuck you.
p.s. ¡Me encanta como hablan los puertoriqueños!
For what it’s worth, Vanity Fair will apologize, apparently:
http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/showcase/la-et-rutten8feb08.story
Before I forget, I am damm tired of the expression “lick my balls” in all languages and variations. I don’t know why.
Dame Edna ate my balls!
Or is that just too 1997?
Gee, there’s an unbiased account (not you oliversarmy, the article).
It says: “Vanity Fair’s item failed on all three counts: It was hurtful, bound to be misunderstood and, quite obviously, lacked literary value.”
Quite obvious to whom exactly? I’m far more offended by “journalists” who think that whatever they believe is common understanding throughout the universe.
I’m disappointed that Vanity Fair decided to apologize. They printed the article, so obviously they saw some value in it before the “outrage” began.
Chaco,
I am curious.
Did you read the article yourself or did you hear about it?
See, that’s the problem. Most people have heard about it and not read it and are taking it totally out of context.
If someone told me that some guy wrote that Spanish is useless I wouldbe upset…
however, seeing the article you can see the goofy characatures, etc.
For the record:
I am hispanic.
I read the article.
I wasn’t offended but I did think: wow. this is going to cause a stink.
sure enough…
Jayjay “ate my balls” won’t do. But thanks for the effort.
They certainly should have been more careful about publishing that two-page nude photo of Iggy Pop in their annual music issue in 2000. I mean sheesh, give a girl a little warning so she doesn’t stumble across something like that all of a sudden while innocently killing time in the school library’s periodical room!
But I digress. Vanity Fair probably believed that its regular readers would be familiar with Dame Edna’s comedic style, and did not ever imagine that the article would be taken out of context and read by people who were unfamiliar with Dame Edna or Vanity Fair.
Chaco, developer a thicker skin. I come from a Mexican-American heritage and I find things that insult me but this isn’t one of them. Cheech Marin has never bothered me (I actually like a lot of his work) and Dame Edna doesn’t bother me. Save your anger for something that matters.
Indeed.
And Chaco, I was going to give you the benefit of the doubt, but as Desmostylus already so adeptly pointed out, you never read the article (or the magazine), you didn’t follow up at all to get the whole story, and you have no clue who Dame Edna is, and you’re up in arms over what amounts to nothing? Go fuck yourself, you ignorant asshole.
Yes - DUH. That’s what satire is. You use the ridiculous to point out how ridiculous the ridiculous is.
Esprix
Chaco ignore all these idiots you’ve got every right to be angry.
I’ve been trying to get people to agree that Jonathan Swift was oneof the sickest fucks who ever walked on this planet and people laugh at me. I don’t see why they disagree read his modest proposal and see what you think. Sick bastard or what.
Why, I do that for all my posts.
yojimbo, you’re my new best friend. 
Esprix
Dame Edna had a Broadway show a couple of years ago. S/he is a major international phenomenon who’s been on the world’s stages since before most of us were born. She makes fun of EVERYBODY!
The vast majority of VANITY FAIR readers know who she is and where she’s coming from. If somebody’s never heard of her before, I’m surprised they’re bothering to read the mag at all, because they’re totally out of it.
Barry, don’t apologize! Or if you do, make it as magnificently condescending as only you know how to!
Chaco, ignorance is not an entitlement.
Offense based on ignorance is especially not an entitlement.
Grow up.
Well, personally, i thought the Vanity Fair piece by Dame Edna was targetted more at the attitudes of wealthy Anglos than it was at Latinos.
But my perspective is based on years of watching Dame Edna (and Barry Humphries in other guises) and i love just about everything s/he does. And in my experience, humour such as this, when it comes out of Dame Edna’s mouth, is much more likely to expose other people’s stereotyping behaviour than to ridicule a minority ethnic group.
While i sort of understand the OP’s position, i think it arises out of a misunderstanding of the type of satire on display in this case.
Chaco said:
Good thing you decided to refrain from making judgements there, Chaco.
[sub]PS- that comment was sarcastic. Sar-cas-tic.[/sub]