I don’t even know where to begin with this one because
between smacking a bitch up and the genocidal nature things are taking in Gaza,
I’m at a loss.
Dealing w/ Hamas is like dealing w/ a crazy
woman who's trying to kill u - u can only hold her wrists so long
before you have to slap her
— Bill Maher (@billmaher) https://twitter.com/billmaher/statuses/489930991956262913">July
18, 2014
There is a kind of beauty to this kind of flippant sexism.
Like, of course, you have to hit “crazy” women, which is a great insult to Gaza
because who wants to be a woman? Iamiright? Aside, a dude who restrains both of
my hands without permission is going to be kicked in the balls. Just sayin’.
Bill Maher’s Twitter’s account had this posted at the end of
last week. As everyone, even Rebecca Rose at Jezebel—where
I originally read this—understands Maher gets to have his own opinions has
radically anti-Muslim as they maybe. Obviously, I disagree with Maher’s opinion
on Gaza, mostly because we have fundamentally different perspectives on
religion. See I think religion is fine as long as it doesn’t infringe on the rights
of others. Maher believes all religion is detrimental however, Judaism appears
to be the least bad while Islam the worst. In this respect Maher follows in the
long list of anti-Muslim atheists, which as an atheist I can tell you they are
our shame.
Personally, I love the way Maher has conflated two seriously
different situations (while both serious, no hierarchy here) as an attempt to make violence funny. As we have learned
from the great rape joke controversy of our time, jokes about unbelievable
violence are only funny when you are making fun of the perpetrators of
violence. What is happening in Gaza isn’t funny. The massive number of women in
violent situations is not funny. Put these things together and you get really
not funny. Of course, there is some man out there just waiting to mansplain
humor to me, as if I’m not the funniest person you know. Save it son; the
adults are talking.
As I said last week, I’m tired of crazy being used as an
insult to dismiss women and discount anything they have to say. I’m also real
tired of the US and the United Nations doing nothing about Gaza. We’re watching
pre-genocidal actions, and that is being kind. Five hundred Palestinians have
been killed as of Monday. That is about one percent of the estimated population of Gaza, a lot of them children, and it has been about a week. Israel is bombing
hospitals and killing children; this is their strategy. They want Palestinians
to flee and essentially give up Gaza. That is what Israel wants. We need to be
talking about that. We need to talk about how Israeli’s have gone on record as
saying kill all the Palestinians.
Of course, the white, hetero, cis dude of the Bat-Signal
went up because who know who is struggling here: Bill Maher. The struggle is
real guys, and Maher has to be Maher every fucking day. I can just not watch
his show.
