# Who Do You Want To Punch Out?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-want-to-punch-out/503577>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [July 20, 2009, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-want-to-punch-out/503577 "2009-07-20T01:16:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 17\
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**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-want-to-punch-out/503577/141 "2009-07-28T22:05:26Z")

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> [@Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](#):
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> Gee, that Heigl woman is such a bitch!
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> Let’s see, she declines an Emmy nod because she’s honest enough to admit the writing for her character is not worthy to be singled out, she defends her best friend from homophobic attacks, she has a problem with seventeen hour work days\*, and oh my gawd she smokes!!! Whew. I’m glad that shrew isn’t my friend.:rolleyes:
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> - My husband works 10+ hour days 4 days a week(not including overtime) and let me tell you he’s dog tired when he gets home.

If she decline and Emmy nod for a show she’s currently on, and call your first break-out movie hit “sexist”, (I DON’T see that at ALL, her character had it MUCH more together then the male lead in “Knocked-Up”, not that I even liked the movie); people aren’t going to hire her, because they’ll be afraid she’s going to bite the hand that feeds her.

About her long days; I have no basis on wether this is true… but little of me thinks it’s probably PART because of her being difficult on the set. And I’m sure she get a lot of time off where she can travel and do crap that I, or any regular Joe or Jane, could only dream of doing.

And I’m sorry, but if “Knocked Up” was so sexist, what’s she doing in a movie that relies so heavily on gender stereotypes, (The Ugly Truth, which looks like it Suuuucks)? If YOU like her, that’s fine. But I’m sure there are a lot of out-of-work actors that would KILL to have her job. Defends best friends from homophobic attacks is fine… but was the tool that blurted them out really worth her constantly bringing her soap box wherever she goes? Something tells me it’s more about her than the homophobic attacks.

NOW, I only know what I’ve read. Maybe people, (seemingly everyone), is making a big deal out of nothing. Like, I don’t care that she smokes. But from all that I’ve GATHARD, I’m willing to bet she’s a difficult actor. I also don’t like the emphasis put on her being a woman actor. If this were a guy, I would feel the same way. I don’t know why that would make a difference.

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**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-want-to-punch-out/503577/142 "2009-07-29T06:37:31Z")

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Spongebob Squarepants  
Stephen Hillenburg  
Tony Alamo  
Michael Vick  
Daisy De La Hoya

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**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-want-to-punch-out/503577/143 "2009-07-29T06:51:05Z")

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Bill Maher. He’s an ugly, smug, unfunny, condescending, smarmy, astoundingly ignorant little shitstain. And for some reason he’s getting an award named after Richard Dawkins despite being an anti-vaccine nut who publicly claims that germ theory is wrong.

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**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-want-to-punch-out/503577/144 "2009-07-29T10:57:11Z")

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> [@MyFootsZZZ](#):
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> About her long days; I have no basis on wether this is true… but little of me thinks it’s probably PART because of her being difficult on the set.

[You’re more right than you know…](http://kenlevine.blogspot.com/2009/07/why-i-hate-katherine-heigl-again.html)

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**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-want-to-punch-out/503577/145 "2009-07-29T16:15:27Z")

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I’d like to punch out Ed Zotti but I can’t because I’m old and feeble and I really don’t mean it anyway. But I wouldn’t mind if someone else did it.

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**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-want-to-punch-out/503577/146 "2009-07-30T02:11:02Z")

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> [@Rand\_Rover](#):
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> gonzomax. He’s an idiot. He doesn’t know how interest works–he thinks that the math of interest is a conspiracy by mortgage companies to bilk us all, or something.

Thank you. I win. Conspiracy is your childish demented term.

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**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-want-to-punch-out/503577/147 "2009-07-30T03:02:28Z")

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gonzomax. I want to punch out gonzomax.

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**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-want-to-punch-out/503577/148 "2009-07-30T03:30:37Z")

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> [@Rand\_Rover](#):
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> gonzomax. I want to punch out gonzomax.

You say that now, but if it really came down to it, I’ll bet you would just pull his hair and scratch his face.

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**Author:** ![Mom-of-Andrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8c91f0/32.png) [@Mom-of-Andrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mom-of-Andrew)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-want-to-punch-out/503577/149 "2009-07-30T03:44:08Z")

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Definitely Jenny McCarthy.

> [@Jelly\_Roll](#):
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> The thought of my kid going to school with the kid of some moron who fell for Ms. McCarthy’s nonsense and didn’t get their vaccinations is frightening.

And my sister-in-law, for _being_ one of those morons, no matter how much research I show her on it.

And my brother. Twice. For not standing up to his wife because _they’re his kids too!!!_ And also for not believing me that the piece of paper he signed with daycare saying he was opposed to all medicine for religious reasons was a really **BAD** idea.

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**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-want-to-punch-out/503577/150 "2009-07-30T04:01:37Z")

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If it wasn’t for the Jenny McCarthy hate, I would still think all the vaccination shit was real. It was actually in another thread I visited, (although I know I would have come to learn about it if I had a kid). I’ve been presented the ‘information’ as if it were fact on TV for a while now, (just random stuff with no counter-points). I figured it was something that had foundation. People say I question everything, but I missed this until I was reading about it here about a month ago. 😕

It’s not like I’m a doctor, so I’m not being hard on myself. It’s just weird how ‘viral’ bad information can get.

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**Author:** ![Nation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@Nation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nation)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-want-to-punch-out/503577/151 "2009-07-30T11:06:15Z")

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nancy pelosi  
harry reid  
al gore  
bill clinton and that thing he calls a wife  
jenna jameson (for getting that ridiculous plastic surgery or whatever the fuck it was)  
jane fonda  
sean penn  
tim robbins and that skank he calls a partner  
ah hell, any pissyfied pussified bleeding heart tree hugging liberal that wants to steal money form hard working Americans and give it to worthless pieces of crap who sit on their ass all day with their hand out.

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**Author:** ![Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abby_Emma_Sasha)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-want-to-punch-out/503577/152 "2009-08-03T12:13:41Z")

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> [@MyFootsZZZ](#):
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> If she decline and Emmy nod for a show she’s currently on, and call your first break-out movie hit “sexist”, (I DON’T see that at ALL, her character had it MUCH more together then the male lead in “Knocked-Up”, not that I even liked the movie); people aren’t going to hire her, because they’ll be afraid she’s going to bite the hand that feeds her.  
> NOW, I only know what I’ve read. Maybe people, (seemingly everyone), is making a big deal out of nothing. Like, I don’t care that she smokes. But from all that I’ve GATHARD, I’m willing to bet she’s a difficult actor. I also don’t like the emphasis put on her being a woman actor. If this were a guy, I would feel the same way. I don’t know why that would make a difference.

I was not going to come back to this thread and perhaps I should not have but I want to clarify a few things.

1- I am not a fan of Katherine Heigl nor have I ever watched _Grey’s Anatomy_, well, correction: I saw one episode, the one where Kyle Chandler went boom.  
I am not a fan of Katherine Heigl, I have never seen any of her films, I do not seek her out when I pick movies to watch. In short, I don’t think I cou;d pick her out of a line up.

I feel I am forced to defend her, though, from what I have read about her.She is fiercely loyal, from what I hear. She doesn’t take herself too seriously, from what I hear. She thinks her material should rise to the level of Emmy worship, from what I hear.

This all comes back to Debra Winger proportions to me. Deb was called difficult, she was a bitch, Oh, that Debra Winger was just evil, man. Why? Because she was a perfectionist. God damn if some take wasn’t right, she wanted to do it again. Let’s get it right. Let’s make it real. Yeah.  
Let me tell you, the whole time I read about how “difficult” Ms Winger was the same was true for Mr. DeNiro or Mr. Pacino but they were deemed “perfectiionists” or hard charging actors. They get no names like “bossy bitches” or “HollyWhores”. Pardon me if I come to the defense of a strong woman IN Hollywood, I wish there were more like her.

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**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-want-to-punch-out/503577/153 "2009-08-03T22:38:38Z")

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> [@Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](#):
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> I was not going to come back to this thread and perhaps I should not have but I want to clarify a few things.
> 
> 1- I am not a fan of Katherine Heigl nor have I ever watched _Grey’s Anatomy_, well, correction: I saw one episode, the one where Kyle Chandler went boom.  
> I am not a fan of Katherine Heigl, I have never seen any of her films, I do not seek her out when I pick movies to watch. In short, I don’t think I cou;d pick her out of a line up.
> 
> I feel I am forced to defend her, though, from what I have read about her.She is fiercely loyal, from what I hear. She doesn’t take herself too seriously, from what I hear. She thinks her material should rise to the level of Emmy worship, from what I hear.
> 
> This all comes back to Debra Winger proportions to me. Deb was called difficult, she was a bitch, Oh, that Debra Winger was just evil, man. Why? Because she was a perfectionist. God damn if some take wasn’t right, she wanted to do it again. Let’s get it right. Let’s make it real. Yeah.  
> Let me tell you, the whole time I read about how “difficult” Ms Winger was the same was true for Mr. DeNiro or Mr. Pacino but they were deemed “perfectiionists” or hard charging actors. They get no names like “bossy bitches” or “HollyWhores”. Pardon me if I come to the defense of a strong woman IN Hollywood, I wish there were more like her.

That’s fine. Actually \*I **did** \*like her when I first noticed her. As I’ve said, I think it’s silly how some people seem to be going out of their way to reference her gender.

I guess we’ll agree to disagree on the bottom line though. 🙂

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**Author:** ![akira5822](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/53a042/32.png) [@akira5822](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akira5822)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-want-to-punch-out/503577/154 "2009-08-03T23:18:50Z")

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Julia Roberts, Just to get that fake smug smile off her face.

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**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-want-to-punch-out/503577/155 "2009-08-03T23:46:28Z")

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Britney Spears, for that stupid song that butchers the proper pronunciation of the word ‘‘radar.’’ When she completely lost her mind, I felt for her, really… but there’s no excuse for that song.

[(For the masochistic, YouTube link here.)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L6ishTkgYs&feature=related)

And a hearty bitchslap to homophobes, because I’m really just getting tired of their shit.

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**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:** [August 3, 2009, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-want-to-punch-out/503577/156 "2009-08-03T23:51:25Z")

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Joe (Forget what’s happening on the field - let’s talk about me!) Morgan

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**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-want-to-punch-out/503577/157 "2009-08-04T03:54:29Z")

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Rich white video rental customers.

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