BHMCruiser

It’s not hard to counter. It’s total bullshit real lowest common denominator type stuff.

Omni Parker House claims to have invented the Boston Cream pie. I stayed there a few years ago for work and my colleague (who'd never been to Boston before) literally ate like four of them a day. It was utterly preposterous. Neat old hotel, too, but showing its age and the rooms are expensive and small. But the bar is cool.

Get over what? You're moving the goal posts.

it's not you, it's him

Seems to me like the vast majority of people got it

I don't think that's really his frustration. I think he is more frustrated that he can tell jokes about everything but everybody acts like he killed a baby when he makes trans jokes. The focus of the special is not "look at that movement why do blacks still have it so bad?", it's "I'm not the one punching down at you. I'm just one guy. Society is punching down at me for expressing my opinion. Give me even footing." I really think it's that simple. The rest is just jokes.

I'm the best.

I completely agree (even though Hannah Gadsby is on the air for some reason). My point is that you can't compare like to like because Dave has enormous cultural mass appeal and nobody can go toe to toe with that and win. It's a tough spot.

As a life-long Alabama fan, let me tell you this is wrong. Arkansas is incomparable to Texas. You have money and access to recruits. Arkansas has pig shit and a few ponds. Just look at Texas A&M. Texas will easily adapt to the new league and will increase it level of play accordingly. Have faith in your institution. In five years you will roll out a war machine that will bludgeon teams to death at the line of scrimmage.

I don't think any serious person would deny that you are a member of a minority that is being actively discriminated against in a myriad of ways, many of which are truly unjust (or even dangerous at the interpersonal level). That must be exhausting and I think you are remarkably even-keeled given that you are in a position of "taking all comers" (no pun intended) on every aspect of this issue. So, on a personal level, I respect that about you. I think it will be very hard, if not impossible, to bridge the gap between the people like you and your allies and the people who think you are suffering from a mental illness that has manifested itself in depraved and/or pitiful ways. That was probably the weakest part of Chappelle's special: his observation that the trans movement was so successful in such a short period of time. I don't think that's an accurate observation.

Understood, but this is also similar to Wifeversation's post that I should be listening to the transgender community and not Dave Chappelle. My response was "when does their special air?"

Agreed

The shrillness of the detractors is rooted firmly in their understanding that they cannot win this cultural battle with persuasive arguments, so they resort to emotional outbursts. If they want to win, they have to play the long game. That's just how it is.

If you want to see what the North End was like before Boston had any money and you had to walk under a highway to get there, order the Chicken Creation at Mother Anna's on Hanover Street.

Bell in Hand is a cool old bar near the North End. As for Chinatown, China Pearl used to have awesome Dim Sum but I haven't been there in years.

troph is saying Netflix should not carve out special space for trans comedy. If it's funny, it's funny, she reasons. But Tig Notaro has specials, so her theory is suspect.

I just meant that Eddie Izzard could be considered a "really funny trans comedian."

What about Eddie Izzard?

That's fucked up. You have my sympathy, if that means anything.

or whether you're a thin-skinned authoritarian or not. Same church as the "explicit lyrics warrior moms," different pew.

That's exactly his point about the "punching down" aspect. He's not punching down. He is taking it on the chin. The collective progressive determination that disagreement (or anything less than lockstep adherence) with the transgender platform is punching down at him, because he is just some dude saying what he thinks. That's his point. Apparently (and predictably if you see my earlier post in response to nivek's questions) this special was nothing more than a Rorschach test where people see whatever it is they are predetermined to see. Like the time the psychiatrist who evaluated me gave me a Rorschach test and I asked him why he kept showing me pictures of my mother's vagina.

I think he figured he'd be out permanently if dad went soft and picked Shiv. But if he picked Gerri, then Roman would not only end up with a shot at the title, but he could continue his romance/degradation thing with her, only on steroids. He's a very conflicted person. TLDR he really wanted Logan to pick Gerri. He set it up.

I think that there are basically three camps of people on the transgender issue. There are people who reflexively reject transgenderism or support of it as per se nonsense and everything they say must be viewed through that filter. There are people who think that transgenderism is an unalloyed positive and tend to think that any rejection of that position is the manifestation of ignorance, bigotry, or both. And then there are people in the middle - people who are confused by the issue but don't want to hurt people so are trying to listen. My anecdotal observation is that there are more people in the first two camps, and they tend to be the most vocal and the least likely to be persuaded. Therefore I do not think it will be an honest conversation, because the agendas of the speakers result in people in adverse camps shouting dogma at one another. So I do expect a dishonest discussion. Lots of people have earnest conversations with each other about hard issues without an agenda (though maybe rarely in online forums). And while I certainly am self-important and above it all, both in terms of this conversation and in life generally speaking, I was just acknowledging up front that I knew we would likely have a shouting match and not a conversation.

Personally I think it’s a bad sign they dropped this trailer on a Saturday. Hope I’m wrong.

he doesn't have arm and leg day to worry about, so....it's pretty much all core