They ironically promote eating disorders is one part of their deal. One of them said something like "I'm not glamorizing eating disorders- I'm just glamorous and have an eating disorder." It's really incredibly cruel stuff honestly. Eating disorders are competitive- to project that kind of stuff onto your audience is insane. I just googled to confirm my facts and also found out they called Lena Dunham a "human beanbag" which is just so mean I don't know where to start. Everyone in their vapid media circle ignores their actions tho so nothing ever comes of any of the shocking stuff they do.
In my one and only episode of listening to them, in the first three minutes they said "Taylor Swift announced she's battling an eating disorder", and the other host chimed in with "yeah, I thought she'd been looking fatter".
I mean I think their audience is just idpol idiots who are sick of being "tone-policed" or believe the world is too PC now. Nonsense of course but if you want to hear someone see how offensive they can be while calling it social commentary this is the podcast for you. That genre of "being mean is actually just being honest" comedy is so grating to me. Any harm they do is erased by them claiming to be ironic or not political or whatever the fuck. The eating disorder stuff is the most personally offensive to me honestly because you can pretend nothing matters and everything is fake but why weaponize that to scar the psyche of young woman who listen to your podcast. IDK it's bullshit.
I'm with you. It's unnecessary cruelty in a world that isn't exactly kind to begin with. And the edgy "I'm gonna say the gamer word" humor is deeply uncreative.
Totally. Also literally everyone else either developed empathy and never had that phase of humor or got over it by HS. It's incredible how delayed the mean = funny is in these people.
They ironically promote eating disorders is one part of their deal. One of them said something like "I'm not glamorizing eating disorders- I'm just glamorous and have an eating disorder." It's really incredibly cruel stuff honestly. Eating disorders are competitive- to project that kind of stuff onto your audience is insane. I just googled to confirm my facts and also found out they called Lena Dunham a "human beanbag" which is just so mean I don't know where to start. Everyone in their vapid media circle ignores their actions tho so nothing ever comes of any of the shocking stuff they do.
In my one and only episode of listening to them, in the first three minutes they said "Taylor Swift announced she's battling an eating disorder", and the other host chimed in with "yeah, I thought she'd been looking fatter".
That set the tone, for sure.
I mean I think their audience is just idpol idiots who are sick of being "tone-policed" or believe the world is too PC now. Nonsense of course but if you want to hear someone see how offensive they can be while calling it social commentary this is the podcast for you. That genre of "being mean is actually just being honest" comedy is so grating to me. Any harm they do is erased by them claiming to be ironic or not political or whatever the fuck. The eating disorder stuff is the most personally offensive to me honestly because you can pretend nothing matters and everything is fake but why weaponize that to scar the psyche of young woman who listen to your podcast. IDK it's bullshit.
I'm with you. It's unnecessary cruelty in a world that isn't exactly kind to begin with. And the edgy "I'm gonna say the gamer word" humor is deeply uncreative.
Totally. Also literally everyone else either developed empathy and never had that phase of humor or got over it by HS. It's incredible how delayed the mean = funny is in these people.
That's a bad look.
"ironic" body shaming is just as daring and counter-cultural as "ironic" racism. fucking tiresome
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She (bizarrely? hilariously? sadly?) does yeah. Not sure if it was after or before they insulted her. It's a bit pathetic either way.