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In reply to the discussion: How Bout This, Tina Fey: Give Us (Black People) the Sheet Cake, and You Go Confront the White Women [View all]Demit
(11,238 posts)39. You probably didn't notice how she introduced the stay at home thing
She said, "Do what you do with a thoughtful movie that has two female leads: stay home."
So do you think she really wants that, too? For people to not go to her movies?
She was being sarcastic. The whole sketch was as biting as could be. The comfort food eating (the bland cake, the grilled cheese sandwich) kind of softened the whole scathing diatribe because it was visually humorous. She was able to get in a hell of a lot of jabs at bad things & bad people.
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How Bout This, Tina Fey: Give Us (Black People) the Sheet Cake, and You Go Confront the White Women [View all]
WhiskeyGrinder
Aug 2017
OP
I loved that bit and as usual...some attack those on our side instead of attacking the GOP
Demsrule86
Aug 2017
#3
The harm was that people can't tell if it was a comedy bit, or an extension of her beliefs.
Baitball Blogger
Aug 2017
#11
+1. I mean, JFC, it's like you're damned if you do, and damned if you don't try to speak up.
TheBlackAdder
Aug 2017
#36
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference .....
lunasun
Aug 2017
#46
Yep. But how many Dems differ from Reps: If Dems speak up, others in the party will critique them.
TheBlackAdder
Aug 2017
#51
This isn't about damning. It's about listening to how people hear you, and then taking stock
WhiskeyGrinder
Aug 2017
#53
It's about correcting people trying to help instead of building on someone else's statements.
TheBlackAdder
Aug 2017
#58
I'm curious how this feedback for Tina Fey could be given in a more "positive" way. What would that
WhiskeyGrinder
Aug 2017
#60
As someone who thought Young's feedback was fine, I'm not going to trouble myself.
WhiskeyGrinder
Aug 2017
#73
No, I'm not a member of Antifa, but I too found no humor in Fey's call for inaction.
SunSeeker
Aug 2017
#10
I'm a little confused why people think critiques of Fey's bit are "hating" or somehow give aid and
WhiskeyGrinder
Aug 2017
#7
Perhaps Aran's article was hidden because she said Fey/Liberals are the same as Trump
emulatorloo
Aug 2017
#82
You just dont get it, and after all these years, I think you would have by now.
Eliot Rosewater
Aug 2017
#151
Not sure why these critiques are characterized as a "firing squad" or "attacks," but she is
WhiskeyGrinder
Aug 2017
#15
Maybe if the army had been better integrated at the time, we wouldn't be talking about Nazis now.
WhiskeyGrinder
Aug 2017
#41
If tell my friend that what they're doing hurts, and they keep doing it, are they really my friend?
WhiskeyGrinder
Aug 2017
#57
How is it satire if it's her regular persona and simply upholds the status quo?
WhiskeyGrinder
Aug 2017
#52
Please walk me through, step by step, what Tina Fey was making fun of and how it
WhiskeyGrinder
Aug 2017
#56
No one is saying Fey defended white supremacists, they just disagree with her "stay home" request.
SunSeeker
Aug 2017
#16
I could take the "satire/sarcasm" explanation if I had also seen Tina Fey do anything ever other
WhiskeyGrinder
Aug 2017
#27
Oh I noticed it. Please don't assume those of us who didn't like the "stay home" line are stupid.
SunSeeker
Aug 2017
#97
Oh fer cryin' out loud. People need to get a sense of humor. It was a comedy sketch.
Honeycombe8
Aug 2017
#117
I liked the skit. I also recognize it was, for the most part for and/ or about white people.
ismnotwasm
Aug 2017
#21
Funny how we interpret things differently. I took the cake bit as a hit on 45 eating cake while
seaglass
Aug 2017
#44
ive said it before only white people can stop this in our country. they will never listen to us or
lunasun
Aug 2017
#40
I would have preferred it if she would have eaten a picture of the pope
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2017
#136
I don't think it went over people's heads, I just think it wasn't very good.
WhiskeyGrinder
Aug 2017
#90
Rather than replying to the OP, I would like to reply to all the white posters who responded.
beastie boy
Aug 2017
#66
Um, find someone who understands sarcams and comedy and ask them about it. I didn't find this bit
mulsh
Aug 2017
#71
To respond to the question, what organizations would be resistant to minorities or their views?
Baitball Blogger
Aug 2017
#109
WTF indeed. I can't believe the ugliness hurled at you for disagreeing with a comedian.
SunSeeker
Aug 2017
#100
It's not hyperbole. Telling someone to "grow up" or that they're too humorle to get a joke is ugly.
SunSeeker
Aug 2017
#103
That's your idea of an "ugly personal attack"? Ok, thanks for the examples. Appreciate it n/t
emulatorloo
Aug 2017
#108
Meh, it doesn't bother me -- hit dogs holler when it comes to privilege, though, I've found.
WhiskeyGrinder
Aug 2017
#110
To say that Tina Fey, who, people keep telling me, has made a name for herself portraying awkward
WhiskeyGrinder
Aug 2017
#111
Lots of folks not getting satire -- not the first woman on this board to be atatcked
obamanut2012
Aug 2017
#106
Suggesting that a white woman who DIDN'T vote for Trump is responsible for trying to
Squinch
Aug 2017
#104
I mean, I guess I could see the satire angle if Tina Fey has a record of regularly protesting and
WhiskeyGrinder
Aug 2017
#113
Why do so many people need Tina Fey's sheetcaking bit to not be problematic?
WhiskeyGrinder
Aug 2017
#116
She said something. The cake was decorated with the American Flag, and that flag was destroyed.
still_one
Aug 2017
#132
That is exactly what Michael Che did, and made a point of it at the climax of the routine
still_one
Aug 2017
#163
The sheet cake was a metaphor for how hopeless many Americans feel now, as hate groups are
still_one
Aug 2017
#131
I thought the heart of the joke was when Fey said there were not only Nazis and ...
betsuni
Aug 2017
#133
I didn't view the routine as a joke, and each bite of that cake was representative of the
still_one
Aug 2017
#143