Feeling guilty because you loved that Tina Fey sheet-caking bit? Sick with shame that you still love Joss Whedon’s shows? Here’s a cure for your pain …


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Spoiler Alert: the cure is understanding that your favorite celebrities are, like us, human beings. If that information is mind-boggling, be sure to check out the highly informative “Stars: They’re Just Like Us!” segment in Us Weekly. Apparently celebrities also have a heart that pumps blood, stomachs that digest food and kidneys that filter human waste! Omigod you guys! They’re just like us!

Tina Fey:

The issue

That being said, on my journey to being at least allegedly woke, I immediately saw some of the things that would come out the next day in the inevitable backlash articles. I just knew that it would be a matter of time before I saw the first “Tina Fey: Racist AF” article. I don’t deny that, even in satirical mode, telling people to stay home from protests and ignore Nazis can have the wrong effect. While I saw it as biting satire regarding our own helpless white tears, I knew others would see it as an actual call for inaction.

The cure

The follow-up treatment

Joss Whedon:

The issue

Of course, a sharp divide was immediately drawn between the people who now think he is evil and people who have decided that his wife is crazy-pants. Do you think there could be a middle ground in there somewhere? However you may feel about Joss Whedon, his wife Kai absolutely has the right to share her experience with him without being crucified. On the other side, as shitty as it is when men are unfaithful and toxic members of a relationship, it’s hardly Roman Polanski drugging and raping a thirteen year-old, which I keep seeing as a parallel among ex-fans for some reason. But somehow this all becomes all or nothing. He’s either a child molester or she’s loony tunes. Pick a side, any side.

The cure

The follow-up treatment

One could argue that his treatment of his wife represents a hypocrisy not in keeping with his feminist ideology, and maybe that’s true. However, equating him with a predator like Roman Polanski— while it might feel like that “gimme”statement you just need to tweet— truly devalues women who have been the victim of the kind of crime Roman Polanski committed. Also …seriously, are people TRYING to turn people away from feminism? Oh, crap, I forgot it’s cool to tell people they aren’t good enough to be a feminist as if the movement itself is Studio 54 (#badfeminist, #superold).

Enjoy your “cure,” folks. In the meantime, I’ll be over here taking MY cure, which tastes a lot like whiskey, with a hint of “Fuck Nazis” sheetcake.

To each his own.

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