From The Daily Gut
This idea that the Rutgers women's basketball team should be off-limits to mockery and criticism because they're wonderful specimens of humanity who are uplifting all females and so forth, and Oprah is proud to call herself a W-O-M-A-N because of them, and all this other horsecrap... PTUI!
For all of you Borat lovers who thought that Sasha Baron Cohen is soooooo funny in how the hero humiliates the unsuspecting rightwing-hick-conservative-rodeofan-redneck, how is that different than the pillars of society on the Rutgers team? Both sets of "targets" were unsuspecting, both were made to look really bad in the public arena. No uproar over Borat's treatment of them. Why is this different? I mean aside from the political beliefs/race/gender of the victim?
Isn't there an argument that the people who Borat picked on are more "scarred for life" than the bunch of anonymous players who placed second in a woman's basketball tournament? (seriously, which team placed second in last year's Super Bowl, or second in last year's World Series?)
Where is the rulebook about who you can ridicule and who you cannot?
Thank you for appreciating my diatribe. Nobody else did, myself included.
Posted by: Jim Treacher | April 14, 2007 at 11:37 PM