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Name: prettieyez
Comment: I haven't seen the cartoon but after reading this I remember when Snoop brought the girls to the awards on leashes. That's why I don't understand the hip hop world. They do things and when they are copied by someone other than a african americian they get 38 hot. They should have been 38 hot when Snoop brought those girls to the awards show in leashes. Futhermore, they (those girls/women) shouldn't have allowed themselves to be pimped by Snoop. Oh well, only in Americia!
Name: jazzfan
Comment: >prettieyez: I agree 100%. We don't protest the way Black rappers depict REAL Black women in videos, but we're supposed to get up in arms over a cartoon? I don't get it.
Name: justmythoughts
Comment: Exactly!!!!! Like the saying goes "You teach people how to treat you"!!!! When people see us degrading one another and calling each other %*$!( and various other "terms of endearment" they assume that it is OK for them to do the same since we weren't putting up a fuss before. I am just fedup and disgusted with the way that some Black people have allowed themselves to be disrespected. If you don't have respect for yourselves at least have some respect for your elders and you ancestors!!!! If it hadn't been for their sacrifices and sense of self-worth and self-pride many of the choices that you are able to make these days would not be available to you. Even if you do make stupid choices like being called a %*$!( or going to an awards show on a leash.....Unbeliveable
Name: Papasmurf83
Comment: maybe it really is a satire. I haven't seen it (and may not get the chance), but if it is like it is described, it's no different than when Keenan Ivory Wayans parodied the excessive gold guys used to where back in the day when he did "I'm gonna Git You Sucka". Or when Robert Townsend parodied Jheri Curls in Hollywood Shuffle. You take something ridiculous (like a man walking around with two women on leashes) and make it look even more ridiculous to show how STUPID it was in the first place. Just a thought....
Name: B00TANEB00TUS
Comment: ...Well then howcum other racial groups aint satired like that? huh?...Yo, this madness has to stop, It ain't just 'bout money...It's 'bout dehumanizing a race of people...I was glad when the women of Spelman took a stand against Nelly May...It just baffles me when I see Black women try to justify this sh1t...Ya'll know this sh1t is wrong...These million dollar coons are selling us out...We need to drop squad their azzes and re-program 'em...Some of us do protest this sh1t but not enuff...It gonna take millions to stop the madness
Name: Industrypro
Comment: I honestly don't think some black rappers will ever get it. Degrading each other with actions and words only hurts us. The people that are really in charge, don't care that it puts black people in a bad light. As long as its making them money its all good. I would love to see the day that the new Jewish rapper Mats(?) brings two orthodox Jewish women on stage with leashes and booty shorts...trust me that will never happen for two reasons. 1. He is not going to disrepect and ridicle his culture and 2. The Jewish network owners would never air it.
Name: beeasy
Comment: granted this is wrong....however no other racial groups ridicules themselves like we black folks do. When Snoop came up with the idea of having these females on the leashes, no one said anything to prevent it from happening hence the actual situation taking place at an awards show. Now someone else has gone ahead and decided to make a mockery of the situation and we are all going crazy. Yes people take stands on certain things but it has to start with the females who allow themselves to be ridiculed. No one can make anyone do anything they don't want to do. The females sell themselves out, the males take advantage of it....thats the wonderful world we live in
Name: khufu
Comment: prettieyez AGREED justmythoughts AGREED
Name: khufu
Comment: beeasy AGREED industrypro AGREED
Name: khufu
Comment: B00TANEB00TUS AGREED..and we support it with our dollars Sad...we dont protest it SAD...cant wait to see what the SCLC, NAACP, etc as well as Sharpton, Jesse, etc not only have to say but they will do....Oh I know...NAACP will give the show an Image Award
Name: khufu
Comment: Papasmurf83 while it might be satire..it is defamatory, insensitive, degrading....even satire should be held to political and cultural scrutiny and accountability.......sheet, Arabs didnt play when they "satirized" the Prophet Muhammad.....and it is assinine for Black folks to partipate in their own degradation,and when that happens, those who do it should be confronted...ANYOME WHO DOES IT SHOULD BE "STEPPED TO.." ...let's stop the disrespect PERIOD
Name: khufu
Comment: LAST COMMENT FOR THE DAY...think about it....what do you call a female dog? HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
Name: Renetta
Comment: Christina.Norman@mtv.com <Christina.Norman@mtv.com> <<< We can talk and spew amongst ourselves but send this woman a piece of our mind. I JUST DID and will encourage all that I know to do the same. It's time we stopped yelling back and forth at each other and took our complaints to the man.
Name: khufu
Comment: Just emailed her..so WHO HAS SNOOP'S email address?
Name: Gemami
Comment: I personally think the anger is misguided. I agree with Papa... this cartoon is a satire... not a satire on Black culture but on pop culture... and rap is pop culture. To quote Papa "you take something ridiculous (like a man walking around with two women on leashes) and make it look even more ridiculous to show how STUPID it was in the first place."
Name: Papasmurf83
Comment: Thanks, Gemami. Perhaps (although I doubt it) if Snoop and his fans see how the satire clowns him and makes a point underneath the humor, maybe some attitudes will change. And for every letter that goes to MTV, send a letter to BET and Radio One to complain about the images they promote as well. As someone said earlier, I hope the protests against our own outlets are just as enthusiastic as the protests against MTV. I saw Cathy Hughes on TV defending her airing of certain rap songs on her radio stations. Russell Simmons does the same thing when he sometimes defends the indefensible. Instead of USING their power to make positive change, they're scared of LOSING their power (and thus money).
Name: Eastwood
Comment: First, let me say the episode was hilarious. Amazingly enough, it was the only episode of that show I've ever seen. First, someone questioned why other groups aren't satirized as much as we are. Other groups are satirized--maybe not as much, but that's only because I think we are a bit more flamboyant and expressive than other races/cultures. Besides, I wouldn't be surprised if there's a board somewhere on the net that a group of hispanics are having the same discussion about them being satirized excessively.
Name: EdnaMae
Comment: As usual, they trot out some token black fool to justify that garbage. Hopefully someone will call her some of the vile names both racist and misogynistic that her "employer" likes and she approves of. I for one am sick and tired of these chumps on the payroll allowing this sort of filth, just like I'm so very sick and tired of these "rappers" and that garbage they spew and send all over the world depicting blacks as nothing but thugs for the men and prostitutes for black women.
Name: Thunny
Comment: It's nothing but entertainment. Not all forms of entertainment are for everybody. How can a cartoon be taken for anything other than satire? Cartoons themselves are not real in the first place.
Name: Eastwood
Comment: Also, as for the leashes, the cartoon only showed the physical ones. There are a gang of relationships (not necessarily one-on-one) where a leash is there--we just don't see it. A man beating his woman; telling her she ain't sh*t with her six kids ("Who's gonna want you?"). A man/woman using their money as a weapon to hold you--even if they're not verbally announcing this: the holdee actually holds this leash up for use. A woman telling her man/husband he ain't no good; that he's lucky she wants his dirty a$$. And, of course, the obvious pimp/ho relationship. No explanation needed for that. But, remember, pimps can be female.
Name: leokev
Comment: We talk about how offended we are, but it's hard to defend when some rap fool has actually done this. It would have been reasonable to state extra offense at the defecation, but some sista actually did this on MTV's Flava of Love the other night. Once you put it out there as real behavior, you are liable to get clowned for it.
Name: queeniebunz
Comment: When I think of this situation, I think of the process it took to get 2 women to put leashes on and go w/Snoop to the show. "I need two b*tches to go wit me"..."what they gonna wear?"..."see-thru shirts and leashes"..."Aight. Sounds like a plan. I'll call Keisha and Latoya from Crenshaw. They're freaks. They'll do anything for a Benjamin"...I don't blame MTV. I blame them stupid heifers who wore that mess and Snoop for setting it up in the first place. This is why I won't ever by any music by Snoop or any of these other thugs who make black women look like less than prostitutes in their videos. As long as we prostitute ourselves we have no one to blame but ourselves. All of this is from "keeping it real" - is it really worth it? I don't ever want to be that "real"...
Name: queeniebunz
Comment: Dang. that's "I won't BUY any music from Snoop"... I am getting all of my two/too/to's and by/buy's mixed up today...Jeez
Name: Pammy
Comment: Any respect I might have had for Snoop dissolved when he showed up to the MTV awards on the red carpet with the two women on leashes. I wonder.... where was the outcry then? This show (Where my Dogs At) would not have had that image to mock, had Snoop not put it out there in the first place. Not saying they were right but I suppose MTV figured if they could get away with it once and there was no outcry they could do it again.
Name: ladybyrd
Comment: Wait a minute... Don't you remember when SNOOP led two Black Women on leashes??? So what's the problem now?? We are currently speaking of a cartoon and SNOOP did it on MTV RED CARPET! WE should have been outraged then. <shaking my head>
Name: Priceless
Comment: This trick need to stop ... if she was doing satire she didn't need to add the defecating part in .... them mofos was taking some foul shat that Snoop did and expanding it and making it more exploitive
Name: kwabena
Comment: People were up in arms when stupid doggy dog came out with the sista on leashes. As they did when 50 cents and snoop had the similar depiction in the video p.i.m.p. As for the women who allow themselves to be exploited in this manner. Just go to your local strip club. Tracy Morgan is equally at fault for participating in this madness. As we let Aaron McGruder spew the garbage he puts out on the boondocs and don't mount a serious organized, sustained demonstration, it gets worse. Again i ask where is CEMOTAP?
Name: ImJustAsking
Comment: I tend to agree with the people who say it's satire. Once rap became mainstream it became fodder for the wider public. It's not MTV's fault that blacks are portraying a certain image. Have you ever watched some of the music videos on mute? It's hilarious, and often the way that it is parodied is so close to the original that it's shameful. Did anybody see Dave Chapelle's lost episode where he satirized the way rappers act when they are on cribs? It was priceless and so real. When people, black, white or whatever color, stop acting a fool, the media will stop making fun of them.
Name: TesticAl
Comment: That clip made me want to watch the entire cartoon.
Name: MzTee
Comment: Prettieyez........you are so on point. A little too late to be indignant when we've allowed and continue to tolerate this behavior in real life. NOW folks want to be outraged over a cartoon...get real. Where where the boycotts and outrage when the REAL INCIDENT happened?
Name: Gemami
Comment: We are on the same page, PapaSmurf83. I don't remember ANYONE being upset enough to boycott Snoop when he paraded women on stage with leases... so why the outrage and writing campaign now? It's like someone said the other day, how can we get made when a white person says the "n-word" when they hear 'us' say it all day everyday. Before we can be angry with the way others treat and view us... we need to be angry with ourselves for allowing this degregation to go on for so long. As someone say, if we are going to write MTV, that same letter/email should go to BET and all other urban outlets that play music and artists that consistantly degrade Blacks.
Name: justmythoughts
Comment: Khufu..on point as always. Just a quick response to all of those who feel that "this is just satire", let's take into account who the target audience is here. Although I hate to say it but I think that the fact that it is satire is really lost on the larger mass audience. This is the danger. We live in a society were lots of people have a problem distiguishing what is reality and what isn't. Like Khufu stated "even satire should be held to political and cultural scrutiny and accountability......." Black people are the only group that sits back and allows themselves to be degraded in such a manner. It is just down right pathetic. Let's just say if they had superimposed the face of your Mother, Sister, Girlfriend, or Wife would you be so willing to support satire then. Just because you can, doesn't mean that you should!!!!
Name: Priceless
Comment: IJA, yes we do coon it up for some videos but to parady it in a cartoon and take it a step further is reprehensible ... there are kids watching it and it's just as inappropriate for them to see as the videos ... I do not allow my neice to watch certain videos when she is at my house and I would not allow her to watch this mess
Name: Priceless
Comment: Gemami, you wanna know how I can get mad when a white person calls me a ni99a? Cause they have no affection for me ... and I am not suggesting I think we should use it either but I ain't neva gonna give pankie a pass for their transgressions just cuz our shat ain't squeaky clean
Name: Keverix
Comment: If I can remember, the girls looked very mixed but in this country, that still means black (laugh). I agree, everybody was quiet about it when Snoop did it but when white people do it we talk shyt and take offense. He started it, they are finishing it. How can we justify getting %*$!ed? They already had a reason and a solid excuse for doing it. I too fail to understand Black people. didn't Snoops clothing line fail miserably?
Name: wiccar
Comment: WTF people. Outta all the responses only 2 people sent email to protest. Rest yall waitin on the right occasion. That's crazy sick right there. Start now, ya got time to come up in this board everyday. Lazy talkin slaves. Somebody post Hudlin's email. Big ups to those who sent email. That shat aired @kids time Saturday. Satire my azz. Wake up..... I'm witcha Bootane. >Renetta..Thank u.
Name: Gemami
Comment: Price, shouldn' you be equally upset when a Black person calls you out your name??? Or do you automatically assume it's out of "affection"?
Name: Thunny
Comment: Al, I saw that episode and it was funny as fcuk! It was a good cartoon!
Name: Eastwood
Comment: Priceless, it's understood that kids are watching this and it's irresponsible (sorta) on the people pushing this through; however, this is not where the focus should be IMO: if we're gonna get all up in arms about this, we need to be standing outside Snoop's crib with signs and thangs. P.S., y'all, this is thhe dude who's coach of a kids' football team....
Name: Dovelyone
Comment: I agree with the comments that are touching upon the point that we "talk" a good game of being offended, but we don't "DO" anything about it, e.g., boycott of Snoop's stuff.... And for the record, the exploitation and degradation of Black women by ANYBODY is simply not OK. I'm just tired of people pitchin' fits about it and not putting energy into shutting this stuff ALL THE WAY DOWN.
Name: musbdherbs
Comment: This sounds like TV raising your kids. Satire, Flatire, Jerry McGuire..that's a whole 'nother issue. Please explain to me y are "kids" watching MTV neway? Since when have they had programming tailored towards kids. Isn't that what Nick/Disney for? Am I missing something here.
Name: ImJustAsking
Comment: Priceless< those same kids are watching the real videos and thinking it's real which is way worse than watching a cartoon which kids realize is animated and doesn't necessarily correlate will real behavior. In the music videos those are real people looking as though they are doing real things that should be imitated.
Name: KingTremain
Comment: This continues to amaze me, how some Black folks get all up in arms about stuff when the %*$! is based on actual events. I guess the truth hurts. Stanley Crouch is usually well informed, but he should be directing his energy elsewhere on this one. Snoop actually did this, and didn’t a chick just %*$! on the floor and herself on Flav's show just last week?!!
Name: musbdherbs
Comment: WICCAR write an e-mail saying what? "Dear [insert]: I am appalled that you would air such racist/degrading bs. I admit, I haven't written my local radio station that plays all sorts of negative material. I haven't written Bravo to protest Being Bobby Brown (it's my little sin). Ok, I haven't written VH-1 in protest of Flavor of Love because I think it's funny (I can't wait to see the next episode). True, I haven't contacted Sony nor Adult Swim in protest of "Boondocks." Alright, Alright already, I love the reruns of In Living Color because its satire is much more tasteful. But, I implore you to PLEASE remove "Where My Dogs At" because it is not only derogatory...it's flat out despicable! By the way, uhm...MTV can you please pick up The Tom Joyner Sky Show because I love the way they portray black people. I especially like the dance contests when the ADULT women get onstage and drop it like it's hot. That is true entertainment...hee-hee." Sincerely, A Concerned Citizen
Name: Eastwood
Comment: KingTremain, you ain't neva lied! Some of our "representatives" are truly putting us out there!
Name: Peekiebear
Comment: Would we (and MTV) have seen the situation differently if a female rapper had two Black men on leashes on all fours, pooping on the ground? I'm sure that would have hit the airwaves around the world. And no, as much as I (and other) beautiful, strong Black women stand tall, there will always be those with low self-esteem and deep stupidity who will buy into the culture of divide and conquer at any cost.
Name: Renetta
Comment: EMAIL: Christina.Norman@mtv.com let the execs at MTV (not just those on this board) know how you feel. I did EARLY this morning and will do so again. If we don’t let THEM know it certainly won’t change.
Name: Priceless
Comment: Gemami, it has been my experience with black folks that when it was used it was out of affection/our slang ... I am not getting into the argument of us banning the word, but what I am saying is I would never see it as anything but fighting words coming out of a panks mouth ... you know good and well how you feel emotionally hearing them say it is different than the emotion you get hearing one of us say it
Name: Eastwood
Comment: Actually, Peekiebear, I think if it was a female rapper with two dudes with leashes pooping on the ground, the airplay/criticism would have beem WAY less. Reason: Female with two dudes on leashes isn't really THAT real (sorta kinda sometimes, but not really); now, dude with two females on leashes? We see/hear that on a regular basis. Shoot, you can probably look up and down your family (extended) and see it live. I believe that's why this is getting so much airplay: Because (as fcuked-up as it is) this scenario is...lived.
Name: Priceless
Comment: musb, and if anybody on here criticizing this shat has watched Flava of Love or Being Bobby Brown they need to STFU and stop complaining about women or blacks in general being exploited or exploiting themselves
Name: Victornator
Comment: I cannot believe the part about them taking a dump. It actually showed it? I would think that would violate some type of FCC stuff.
Name: Victornator
Comment: It is true that they would not have had something to satire had it not occurred in the first place. I remember when Prince performed on that award show with his butt cut out of his pants. That is STILL being satired today.
Name: Eastwood
Comment: Actually, Victornator (nice name :), they didn't show it--they just sorta showed us what was going on. She actually has to live with this. Can y'all imagine going on and having friends/family see this? And the haters?!!!!
Name: wiccar
Comment: >'herbs its not jus black kids and children watchin mtv. whoever said kids know it's just a cartoon and not real maybe need 2 rethink that idea. as 4 what to write, make y'self heard and start somewhere....thats what i'm sayin. too many people here complain, do nothin, then justify. snoop don't get nothin from me....and trust i been protestin by email, phone, whateva ...a long time.
Name: ladybyrd
Comment: Keverix > No the girls did not look mixed. They looked & were black.
Name: Priceless
Comment: IJA, on the EUR people are constantly saying that peeps in other countries decide what AA's are like by watching videos and these are adults who should know that a video is not reality, so assuming that kids know a cartoon ain't real so it doesn't affect them don't fly to me *shrugging shoulders*
Name: musbdherbs
Comment: Wic..I'm actually not complaining because I do my own boycott. I don't watch videos, don't listen to urban radio etc..so me writing them when I don't watch the show neway wouldn't serve a purpose..ESPECIALLY if I've yet to write the above mentioned ^. Either way, kids shouldn't be tunin in to MTV neway. If they do, then they should see wuteva's on air. It's cable!
Name: fairydust777
Comment: Kufu I always enjoy reading your comments. They are intelligent and well reasoned. I think we need to permanently stop watching MTV, BET and all these other networks that depict us unfavorably. It's not just about this one cartoon. There is entire mentality that says open season on african-americans. We need to stop listening to and buying the products of anyone who denigrates us (rappers, singers, etc.). When we complain while continuing to bop our heads to their beats... we sound like hypocrites. Thanks to the poster who put Ms. Norman's email address.. I have already written her. I also think we need to write ABC about the treatment Barbara Walters gives to the black guest hosts who have appeared on her show. She was angry and vowed never to watch another Mel Gibson movie again when she heard he made anti-semetic comments. But she on the other hand insults and belittles the African-American co hosts who appear. Did any of you see how she felt all over Brandy's hair like she was a puppy, how she referred to Monique's children as "creatures". Do you not see a pattern here? Yesterday I read that RADIO ONE's profits fell. Immediately I wondered if it had anything to do with them replacing Steve Harvey. Steve was always complaining about the music they played and they got rid of him and put on John Salley and now he's gone and they have Tom Joyner. Does anyone know the real reason they got rid of Steve Harvey? And what happened to Nautica who used to be a SH angel but then got her own show?
Name: HHCassius
Comment: I just think we as a people should stop acting in ways that would be satirized. Plain and simple. Stop acting like NEGGAHS!!!!!!!
Name: Skeptical
Comment: Try making something like that about the Jews. MTV wouldn't put it on.
Name: musbdherbs
Comment: Skep..I'm sure they wouldn't because they have an active community which gets to define how they are going to be portrayed. We don't because we make exceptions.
Name: Gemami
Comment: Priceless, I'm not going to get into a n-word debate 'cause that's besides my point. All I'm saying is I think it's hypocritical for us as a people to get all up in arms about this cartoon when it was our people that provided the material for this satire as well as not doing anything about the constant negative images that seen and heard each day. I guess we have to know exactly what we are fighting... and FIGHT.
Name: VickiE
Comment: Come on, y'all, we do protest rapper lyrics. They have entire groups that sole purpose is to put ratings on CDs. For MTV to perpetuate this by saying we are only depicting the pop culture is an insult. This is a amall part of the music industry. It is NOT every day that a singer, rapper or not, shows up in public with leashed women.
Name: khufu
Comment: hey any one out there listen to NPR? here....http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?s toryId=5635637..or go to www.npr.com and look for Rev. Al Sharpton's picture or name
Name: khufu
Comment: Vickie.."WE" who?
Name: khufu
Comment: here is what I wrote to Ms. Norman at MTV......."Good Day Christina: Although satire, some satire is culturally and historically insensitive, degrading and poltical dynamite. Not to mention the spiritual values that satire can sometimes stomp to the ground....We live in a day and age where media makers have to seriously consider the impact our creative and artistic "children" have on the public, society and humanity. Are we pushing the envelope too much?...The depiction of woman poses a couple of problems for me as a man.....as a Black man it's derogatory and disrespectful to my mother, daughter, sister, female ancestors, girlfriend, Oprah (LOL) and all the Beautiful Black women in the world etc.....As ! believe that, if God did have one specific gender that it would be female, I have a problem with any degrading image of the female gender...A woman is not a %*$!( but the maker and keeper and nurturer of life...we all came in this world via a woman's womb....And lastly Snoop, as a young Black man, is mis-guided.......so although he is the "reference" or "inspiration," he is as wrong as anyone else.....Just a couple of words for you.....I now you have a job to do and I wish I could be there doing it with you (i.e. Creating programming).....Consider: What the world needs now is not continually degrading, derogatory. disrespectful, dehumanizing images...."
Name: khufu
Comment: LOL typos and grammatical errors and all...I need some glasses, yall......LOL
Name: beegirl
Comment: Leokev, I agree. It's hard to protest when all this was based on true events. Someone should have thrown a tomato at Snoop, and MTV should have never shown him on the air like that. And please don't get me started on Flavor of Love. However, MTV should probably have stayed away from all that. It was such an ugly, embarassing moment for black women, so why dredge it up again now? This happened years ago. I would argue that most good satire is current. Seems like MTV thought it was "cute" and wanted to relive it.
Name: khufu
Comment: thank you FAIRYDUST....where are you?
Name: khufu
Comment: Consider this...."Satire is a literary technique of writing or art which exposes the follies of its subject (for example, individuals, organizations, or states) to ridicule, often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change. In Celtic societies, it was thought a bard's satire could have physical effects, similar to a curse. The humor of such a satire tends to be subtle, using irony and deadpan humour liberally. Most satire has specific, readily identifiable targets; however there is also a less focused, formless genre known as Menippean satire. Example: The film, The Great Dictator (1940) by Charlie Chaplin is a satire on Adolf Hitler and his Nazi army."
Name: khufu
Comment: Types of satire There are two fundamental types of satire: Horatian satire, which is gentle and urbane; and Juvenalian satire, which is biting, bitter invective. The burlesque form of satire can also be segregated into two distinct categories: High burlesque, or taking subject matter which is crude in nature and treating it in a lofty style, or low burlesque, taking subject matter traditionally dealt with in an epic or poetic fashion and degrading it. The following commentary on satire is illuminating: Satire is a mode of challenging accepted notions by making them seem ridiculous. It usually occurs only in an age of when there exists no absolute uniformity but rather two sets of beliefs. Of the two sets of beliefs, one holds sufficient power to suppress open attacks on the established order, but not enough to suppress a veiled attack. Further, satire is intimately connected with urbanity and cosmopolitanism, and assumes a civilized opponent who is sufficiently sensitive to feel the barbs of wit leveled at him. To hold something up to ridicule presupposes a certain respect for reason, on both sides, to which one can appeal. An Age of Reason, in which everyone accepts the notion that conduct must be reasonable, is, therefore, a general prerequisite for satire. --Jacob Bronowski & Bruce Mazlish, The Western Intellectual Tradition From Leonardo to Hegel, p. 252 (1960; as repub. in 1993 Barnes & Noble ed.).
Name: khufu
Comment: Satire in pop culture and public media Some works of satire are subtle enough in their exaggeration that they still seem believable to many people. The satiric nature of these works may be lost on the public at large, and there have been instances where the author or producers of a satirical work have been harshly criticized as a result. In 2001 the British television network Channel 4 aired a special edition of the spoof current affairs series Brass Eye, which was intended to mock and satirize the fascination of modern journalism with child molesters and pedophiles. The TV network received an enormous number of complaints from members of the public, who were outraged that the show would mock a subject considered by many to be too "serious" to be the subject of humor. The movie This is Spinal Tap, a spoof of rockumentaries, about a fictitious hard rock band was mistaken for non-fiction by some critics.
Name: khufu
Comment: On occasion, satire can cause social change when used to make a political or social point (although simply revealing absurdities to the public, as opposed to the quality of the satire, may be the actual cause of any consequences). For instance, the comic strip Doonesbury satirized a Florida county that had a racist law that minorities had to have a passcard in the area; the law was soon repealed with an act nicknamed the Doonesbury Act.[citation needed] In the 2000 Canadian federal election campaign, a Canadian Alliance proposal for a mechanism to require a referendum in response to a petition of sufficient size was satirized by the television show This Hour Has 22 Minutes so effectively that it was discredited and soon dropped. Many modern comedy TV shows use satire to some extent, especially animated comedies such as The Simpsons, South Park and Family Guy which can easily use images of public figures and generally have greater latitude than conventional shows using actors. Series 7: The Contenders satirized what might happen if reality TV shows got out of hand and ended up in people getting killed for entertainment. Another source of satire on TV comes from the popular shows The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report, two news programs which satirize not only modern news media, but also Washington politics. Satire and parody are also popular forms of expression on the internet; one of the most prominent examples is the news satire site The Onion. Individuals are picking up the idea and exploiting the genre through their blogs, such as The Swift Report. Also, satirical shows like Have I Got News For You and They Think It's All Over are very popular on British television. Also, in American TV, series like Seinfeld have made impacts on the humor world.
Name: khufu
Comment: NOW all ya'll MFers who say it's "satire", let's have an intelligently informed conversation about Satire.....satire and it's POLITICAL, SOCIAL and CULTURAL VALUE......
Name: khufu
Comment: making fun of someone and degrading them is not SATIRE..it's Buffonery
Name: khufu
Comment: and all you females who say it's just satire...let me come over and put yo azzes on a leash and spank that azz and make you bark like a beech.....GET MY POINT?
Name: timmdogg
Comment: I wonder if she would condone a well endowed brother poking her mother in the rear? I am sick and tired of people degrading us on tv and people assuming it's okay? I find this type of satire racist and very demeaning to all African American people in general. We have been exploitve in the media far too long and you don't hear the FCC or any media outlet's doing anything about it? Maybe her master should have her rear up in the air and have people tossing quarters at it for a small prize? Totally enraged!
Name: Gemami
Comment: khufu, did you write Snoop, his management, BET, Viacom, Urban Radio as well? I would BET you did not... and for the record WE did not have a damn thing to do with cenorship -- if I remember correctly the only Black woman (forget her name right now) who stood up to gangster rap at the time was ridiculed. I remember Jesse and Al stand besides Snoop and supporting his negativity... So please...
Name: Gemami
Comment: Let me correct that -- it's not censorship but parental control labels on music -- we, as a people, had nothing to do with that. It was white urban housewives concerned about little Billy and Suzie listening to gangster rap that were the catalysts behind parental controls.
Name: khufu
Comment: GEMAMI..I have written and published essays on the matter....and you lost me on the "WE" comment.....by the way, what have you done to address the matter at hand?
Name: khufu
Comment: GEMAMI you really lost me on the censorship comment..
Name: Gemami
Comment: We can go back and forth… but honestly what's the point... so continue writing your long diatribes… and I’ll continue doing with I do… peace
Name: mizzym
Comment: unfortunately, since people have not really protested us as being called " B's", this sort of disrespect just keeps escalating. The "B" is a dog and dogs get lead on leases...
Name: PaulPorter1
Comment: Remember it is not about the puppet but taking it to the puppeteer!
Name: MizSoldada
Comment: I think the following will help explain why some black folk are so f*cked up in the head. To view "A Girl Like Me" click on the link below: http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/6/a_girl_like_me/i ndex.php?fs=bios EMANCIPATE YOURSELF FROM MENTAL SLAVERY!!!
Name: MizSoldada
Comment: Brothers & Sisters, please take note of what Cristina Aguilera sings in "BEAUTIFUL": 'Cause we are beautiful No matter what they say Yes, words won't bring us down Oh no We are beautiful In every single way Yes, words can't bring us down!
Name: adifferentpath
Comment: Welp, its the end of the day. Some will say it's just satire(the greatest trick the devil ever pulled....) some will say, others don't make fun of themselves...who cares what others do, we're unique and frankly, it's about us! Some will say there's more pressing issues...true, the funny part is, shyt like this validates the pressing issues for those being pressed....yet I transgress or digress or maybe this is some regressed mess. Anyhoo, entertainers do feed off of the applause from their audiences/if the sits are empty, they wouldn't be performing that mess and would dress just as well being hip to their consciousness. I sent my e-mail to Christy, you, please do if you feel the need too. Peace y'all.
Name: curliegirl
Comment: I am appalled at this story!!! It's hard enough to be a African-American woman and deal with the sterotypes, too. It seems like all I do is answer questions from everyone as to why I don't have any children, why I don't have a nasty attitude, or wonder why folks do things to get me to react in a nasty way. And this is what I get from other African-Americans.!! I was suprised to find out the the president of MTV was a woman! How could a woman let a show depict other women in such a crude and degrading manner. This woman should lose her job because she showed bad judgement in allowing this show to air.
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