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Weekend Update: Gretchen - SNL (Original Post) IronLionZion Dec 2017 OP
That was funny. But a question: Honeycombe8 Dec 2017 #1
It seems kind of derivitve of this: Thor_MN Dec 2017 #3
I remember that one. That was funny, too. nt Honeycombe8 Dec 2017 #4
White women suffer patriarchal oppression while benefitting from white privilege IronLionZion Dec 2017 #6
Not amusing at all. But who am I to judge what someone finds funny. Ferrets are Cool Dec 2017 #2
LOL @ "Sometimes they get money in the mail from their dad." jalan48 Dec 2017 #5

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
1. That was funny. But a question:
Sun Dec 10, 2017, 10:10 AM
Dec 2017

Would a skit about a white guy with a fro on work...trying to pass as a black woman, sitting at a meeting of black women saying stereotypical black female things, etc.? Because that's what this skit was.

I wasn't offended by it, but it did cross my mind what it would be like, if it were reversed. Makes you wonder, doesn't it?

But it was funny...people actually believing he's a white soccer-mom type, when he's clearly a big Af. American male with a bad wig on. He was funny.

 

Thor_MN

(11,843 posts)
3. It seems kind of derivitve of this:
Sun Dec 10, 2017, 11:57 AM
Dec 2017


And no way that either of these could or should be reversed.

IronLionZion

(45,447 posts)
6. White women suffer patriarchal oppression while benefitting from white privilege
Sun Dec 10, 2017, 04:11 PM
Dec 2017

White women still have power over minority males. So a minority male making fun of white women on a comedy show isn't "punching down".

Michael Che in particular does this often. He's stated one way to defeat ISIS would be to open up Starbucks and yoga studios in their neighborhoods to gentrify it with white women.

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