We've all seen the photo now. I won't post it because I don't want that shit. It clearly wasn't a threat--still, free of context, it could've been reasonably taken as a threat. One thing is for certain: Kathy Griffin will be audited a lot the next few years, because Donald Trump will abuse that power. He will abuse the hell out of that power. He will send the IRS to grab her by the pussy.
How was this different than the times that Ted Nugent threatened both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama? Nugent was Trump's friend, for one. But also Nugent didn't do a visual representation. Nugent made offhand comments; Kathy's "threat" had production values. Yes, Nugent is batshit crazy. Also probably a pedophile.
The Trump clan has used this to distract the media from how terrible they all are. (Melania Trump claimed that when their son saw the photo, he thought it was really his dad's head. How often does Baron see his father if he thought this? He's a 21st century kid; he knows a lot of images aren't real.) And though I'm no fan of the Trumps, they were right to be offended. These weren't Tim Allen verbal jabs at Hillary on his cancelled(?) "Last Man Standing."
A couple of days ago, Griffin appeared in a news conference to spin in with Lisa Bloom. She brought out a laundry list of a shockingly small sample of the terrible things that Trump has said and did, and used it as a justification for that photo. The photo was mocking his mocking of a female's menstruation cycle, you see. However she forgot a cardinal rules of comedy: If you have to explain a joke, then it isn't funny.
This is not a feminist issue. But a common sense issue. Trump is still the President, and though we don't have to respect him--we really shouldn't--the rules have changed as to how he can be depicted.
Kathy Griffin, like so many Hollywood liberals, managed to do the impossible: Make the Trumps sympathetic. Her attempts to wrap her stupidity in social justice warrior outrage has fallen flat.
No comments:
Post a Comment