r/askanything • u/TankUMrMinor • 7h ago

Political Question Why are Shane Gillis fans so sensitive?

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This really pissed off a lot of his fans in another group where I posted it.

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u/Stickeminastew1217 6h ago

I think people are largely overreacting to a bad set that was definitely in poor taste. Buuuut, like, c'mon man, read the fucking room.

I also see people defending it as being a self deprecating joke, and they're obviously missing the point. Yes, the set was mostly him making fun of himself, but the line he's getting shit for was not. Nor was it the sort of joke where you say something shitty but the joke is that you're a shitty person for saying it. He just called women whores. There's like, 80 ways you could have done it that wouldn't land as badly. Hell, you could have hard committed. Done like, awooga eyes and talked about how you would have gone sooner if you knew women were dressing like that, and it STILL probably would have landed better because people would at least recognize that the joke is that you're being a perv (I'm not saying it would have been a good joke, but it would have been at least a joke).

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u/Yehrmahm 5h ago

No, that would have been a FAR better joke.

I watched some old Rodney Dangerfield clips the other day, and his work has aged shockingly well — because that crass, obnoxious character/persona was the butt of like every joke, no matter who that character was talking about.

It’s like these guys think the joke is supposed to be Dangerfield’s fat ugly bitch of a wife.