I think the song is extremely funny, and I’ve encountered the type of woman they are talking about. I don’t think a funny song is going to bring about the oppression of wealthy pregnant women everywhere, but in case it does? Shame on me for laughing about it.
I don’t know about the song, but maybe if people stopped asking pregnant people such stupid questions, they wouldn’t get such stupid answers. If I had a dollar for every personal, invasive, out-of-line question people asked me when I was expecting, baby would have a college fund.
I am sure some pregnant women are smug. I would guess these are the same women who were smug before they were pregnant.
As for the smug new mothers, well, they are often just as alienated and confused and put off as their former besties. Having young kids is associated with a sharp decline in daily happiness and a decline in marriage quality. I would guess this goes double for “white liberal late” mothers who had lots of time and money to get used to alone time, happy hours, extra cash, vacations, dining out, etc. So a lot of these new mothers are feeling isolated and unhappy by something that is completely irrevocable, while their childless friends are living the exciting and comfortable life that they just so recently were a part of, so what do they have but to blather about fulfillment and crank the cognitive dissonance up to 11?
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No you didn’t, but “I is stupid. This didn’t say this”.
No surprise I’m guessing, but Silverman seems alot funnier to me. G&O are just doing the “saying what everyone is thinking” kind of thing, which is at most chuckleworthy in the best of times…
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Hah!
Huh?
Threads like this…
Some people suffer from a terrible comedic impairment. I am tempted to give forth a treatise on Comedy (based on my indubitable credentials as someone who’s seen so much comedy that I am now fluent in Yiddish). But “Comedy” is not the problem here.
It’s not about whether something is funny or not.
It’s a problem of the Social Justice Warrior. And the OP is, apparently, attempting to stake out a position as just such a creature.
It’s a difficult concept for someone like me to address, because I consider myself to be quite liberal and passionate about social justice issues. In fact, I probably wouldn’t even be able to comprehend this issue if I weren’t so enamored of the power of Comedy - its ability to enlighten through satire and transgression.
But there is a category of people who, for whatever reason, are looking for a fight. They are, simply, hung up on whatever pet causes they’ve attached themselves to, and have therefore lost all perspective.
Comedy, by its very nature, transcends such bullshit. It often welcomes it, in fact, because this sort of shit provides such fertile ground for more comedy. Unfortunately, this incredibly rich font of wisdom is lost on the Social Justice Warrior, who simply wishes to frame everything into a black and white package wherein they are deemed as heroic.
And nothing could be further from the truth. It’s the comedians, like G&O, who are the heroes, here. Because they are smarter, and more enlightened, and more clued in, than any SJW. Because they make us laugh, and disseminate love and understanding and humanity, rather than judgmental hatred.
My girlfriend once accused me of being a pedophile. I looked at her and said, “Pedophile?! that’s an awfully big word for an eight-year-old.” [Thanks, Jimmy Carr]
I think it’s a problem of someone thinking that if he doesn’t find something funny, there has to be something wrong with it, so he’ll find it. Or “find” it.
You said a bunch of stuff that’s not true about the OP. I have a feeling you included this quotation to make some kind of point. Pursuant to that, I’ll ask–what do you suppose I think about this joke?
Jesus Christ.
There’s literally zero evidence for this assertion in this thread.
It goes the other way. Something is wrong with its presuppositions, and for that reason I didn’t find it funny.
This should be obvious.
But anyway, this is strictly speaking a kind of hijack–because the OP is not about whether the joke is funny or not. Read it carefully. The OP even characterizes the song as humorous!
Jesus jesus goddamn christ you people.
I could have sworn you said that you don’t believe all pregnant women are smug. But now you about-face and say you do think all pregnant women are smug?!! Fie on you, then. You are thus an enemy of the Good Fight Against Humorous Exaggeration, and I take back the kudos. I am deeply, deeply disappointed at yet another betrayal. Like Garfunkel and Oates, your position is that of a Judas with hands full of thirty pieces of silver.
…Then thank God you posted in a thread about it, because we actually hadn’t yet had a living representation of how pregnant women/new mothers tend to make things All About Them when it’s actually not. Yours was indeed the perfect contribution! monstro’s point made manifest.
As has been said, Kate Micucci played Lucy. And the blonde? Rikki Lindhome? Imagine her with reddish light brown hair pulled back into a pony tail. She played the grad student who attached herself to Sheldon (ala Yoko Ono) so she could get a credit on the paper he was working on.
Oh, and they also wrote If I Didn’t Have You for the show.
This is stupid. I said the song assumes certain behaviors indicate smugness, which do not actually indicate smugness. Your tryhard post pretended that my point was to say some pregnant women are not smug. Whether or not some pregnant women actually are not smug, this wasn’t even close to my point.
You’re now tempted to go find some bit in the OP or elsewhere in the thread where I say something that implies not all pregnant women are smug. Pretending, for dishonest chances at stupid jokes, to have completely misunderstood my point. Eat your heart out. It’s fucking disingenuous and I’m not going to pursue that conversation any further.
Guess what song I have stuck in my head.
From the OP:
Yeah. I think I’ll stick with my reading. You didn’t laugh, so now you’re going to go to great lengths to explain to us all, in excruciating, rationalizing detail, why you didn’t laugh.
Yes, stick with your reading because you’re clearly not reading this thread.