So That's The Problem - We Just All Missed the Joke

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• Bes | March 19, 2013 2:51 PMReply

  McFarlane brought an increase of young male viewers to the Academy Awards. That is the only demo advertisers and Hollywood care about. Expect more of the same. They don't give a rats ass what women in Hollywood or women consumers think. Women have no power in Hollywood. And only women who are willing to strip for the camera get work. That is why I prefer to go to local productions which present a female centric story and view that Hollywood just can't match.

• Jan Lisa Huttner | March 19, 2013 9:11 AMReply

  Today is Philip Roth's 80th birthday, so my FF2 Media WHM film-of-the-day is ELEGY directed by Isabel Coixet. Indeed Penelope Cruz does expose herself in ELEGY & it's just about the most heartbreaking scene I've ever seen on film. So shame on Seth Meyer and to Neil Meron & Craig Zadan for continuing to promote the idea that the only thing a guy's guy wants is to "see boobs," & let the context be damned. Fey!

• Star | March 18, 2013 8:48 PMReply

  With all of the hand-wringing over this silly song, is it any wonder why women today are less-and-less willing to identity themselves as feminists? "Feminist" has become a synonym for "Killjoy" and it's the fault of women like Melissa. The feminist movement really needs an image makeover. Badly.

• Stephanie Rosenfeld | March 18, 2013 4:49 PMReply

  well, Judd Apatosaurus (iPad self correction, but i like it!) , Farelly Bros, Hangover creators, et al have been trying to tell us for years, now, that "adolescent male gross-out humor" equals "the cultural conversation," which I think was also a justification McFarlane tried to put out there, but... I'm not buying it. I think it's just easy, lowest common denominator hateful spewage, trying to masquerade as something more widely relevant or meaningful. Yeah, there is wider meaning: Men in our culture (as a whole, not individually, relax individual males) don't respect women, nor do they have to in Hollywood, because there are no sanctions, but that's not the "conversation" the producers of the Oscars would say they're representing.

• zbudapest | March 18, 2013 4:31 PMReply

  The BOOB song was atrocious! It was declaring loudly, men have rights to mock our character if they have "seen" our boobs. Some kind of a planting a flag of conquest in the male gaze.
  Seth is so popular and his Family Guy on TV is so sexist, all cruel, its way beyond satire. But he is a man's humorist.
  I am working on a female driven animation. Political satire, subversive humor but never cruel.
  I would love to hear from women animation artists,or agents for this kind of art, i think women need more then an agent, we need advocates. We have to break down the all male cultural preference.

• Loren E. Chadima | March 18, 2013 4:20 PMReply

  Thank you Melissa for addressing the Boob song. I thought it was soooooooo inappropriate and absolutely appalling, but more inappropriate and appalling is the lack of people - WOMEN and men - who didn't seem to find it inappropriate or appalling!!!!

• LostPevensie | March 18, 2013 4:01 PMReply

  Yeah, I just got clobbered for my lack of sense of humor at the Huffington Post posts on that brilliant announcement. If MacFarlane wanted to criticize Hollywood for his treatment of women I am sure there is a better way than singing "the boob song". It's like declaring yourself an environmentalist and sing "the global warming is a lie" song.

• Deborah A. | March 18, 2013 4:01 PMReply

  Their ignorance must be their bliss. They are the joke.