since the Matt Rife "it's just a joke" crowd are back along with the e.l.f. cosmetics controversy, i thought i'd remind y'all it's NEVER "just a joke". be smart about the media you consume. don't get brainwashed 👍🏻
#mattrife #elfcosmetics #politicalcomedy #socialsatire #comedian #patriarchy
instagram.comThe columns that I wrote for Life made people laugh. But they had a serious purpose, which was to say: “Something crazy is going on here—some erosion in the quality of life, or some threat to life itself, and yet everyone assumes it’s normal.” Today the outlandish becomes routine overnight. The humorist is trying to say that it’s still outlandish.
William Zinsser • On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
What is lost in this sea of feel-bad content isn’t just a sense of fun, but of taste . These “non-problematic” shows are not just irritating, they’re bland and forgettable—except in those rare moments when they pass through the looking glass into the world of self-parody, as in the 2018 NBC drama New Amsterdam when a doctor delivers this somber... See more