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Jumat, 01 Maret 2013

Why Seth MacFarlane Went Too Far

Why Seth MacFarlane Went Too Far

"Anne Hathaway is a feminist . . . let's save our bad attitudes for the ones who aren't advancing the cause," the Girls creator tweeted of the Academy Awards fan response.

I felt nostalgic last night for the Academy Awards of yore, when I sat on a couch with friends and watched everyone be glamorous and semi-respectable and we got to be gross and snarky. MacFarlane broke through that

Watching the Oscars last night meant sitting through a series of crudely sexist antics led by a scrubby, self-pleased Seth MacFarlane. That would be tedious enough. But the evening's misogyny involved a specific hostility to

Despite solid ratings for Sunday's 85th annual Academy Awards, host Seth MacFarlane is catching a lot of flak for his crude jokes about women, Jews, Abraham Lincoln and most notably, actresses' boobs. In a musical

Earlier this week I posted Margaret Lyons' very thoughtful essay, "Why Seth MacFarlane's Misogyny Matters," on Facebook, and one of my male friends asked a thoughtful question: Should Seth MacFarlane take all the blame? What about the writers,

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