I hate to make ranting a continual theme here, but these are just some fleeting thoughts I've had.
I listen to Eminem and can appreciate both him and maddox (maddox.xmission.com) for their humor on certain subjects, But i still think they are completely insensative. The two of them take such a scary stance on the treatment of women. There is so much chauvinistic garbage in their stuff, its hard to weed through to get to the actually funny and relavent material, like his comments about corporate america screwing their workers, or about immigrant workers; there are some decently good views there, and they're damn funny. I try to ignore their negative projections of women and the apathetic and violent sentiments, but after a while I find myself becoming desensitized from it all, and i don't want to start accepting these beliefs that prance across my ethical and moral line. i think they slowly condition us all to do this. I hate hearing my guy friends talk about how great maddox's woman bashing is. I had an aquaintance tell me once , in response to my saying that i thought he was sometimes out of line, that "he's not that bad. he's said in interviews that he's only like that on the website to make it funny". oh, Ok, i didn't realize how important it was to put an intire species of people down to be funny. sorry.
WHAT? I mean seriously. I'm sorry, in a world where i am already considered a second class citizen, i don't want to have to face more bullshit from bitter, apathetic 28-year-old lonely men and all of their underage clones. it bothered me to hear my friend accept all of that garbage so easily. Doesn't he respect me? Doesn't he have any respect for anyone? He didn't even understand how I could be offended by maddox's views. it unnerves me how desensatized people can become. Like Christian Bale's character in Swing Kids, "Arvid was a criple, he didn't belong anyway". Whatever. i'm just saying...
I don't know, I'm becoming less enchanted with wit everyday. Why does comedy have to be all about bitterness and apathy? Why does it take negativity and putting down a sex/race/religion/country/culture/lifestyle to be funny? the way i see it, theres enough shit in life as it is, i don't need to hear about your apathetic negativity, bringing me down and making me feel even shittier. All anyone is ever saying is a bunch of bitter apathetic bullshit. Sit down, shut up, and give me my check. i'm done.
Almost done. Sorry for my cynicism. I'm just blowing off steam. The thing is, I don't really know what to do with these thoughts. I'm not going to stop reading maddox's page, There are still many elements of it that i do enjoy. The same goes for Eminem. I like the few of his songs that arn't offensive, I just won't support him by buying an album because it would be supporting too many ideas that I don't agree with. Let me know what you guys think.
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