Sarah Silverman's furiously-backpedaling follow-up to yesterday's post

https://twitter.com/SarahKSilverman/status/1714879511228223509?t=Eqwvb95aBvC-itbMHbLj_Q&s=19

  • Judge_Juche [she/her]
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    9 months ago

    I still don't understand what the NASA thing has to do with anything. Is it like everyone makes mistakes? Or like the men criticizing me don't understand that women go Hitler-mode when they smoke that loud?

    Like just overall how do you think this makes you look better.

    • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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      9 months ago

      She thinks she's saying even the smartest organization makes mistakes, but all I'm reading is, "I'm just like the Nazis!"

      edit: removing ableist language, my bad.

      • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]
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        9 months ago

        Proper sex ed in this country would have told her that smoking marijuana during menstruation can cause genocidal tendencies

      • reddit [any,they/them]
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        9 months ago

        I think what she's saying is, here is this anecdote of some engineers not knowing how (cis) women work, anyone calling me out on my bullshit is sexist like those men. I think? Like this is me grasping at straws, I fully don't understand what she means. Maybe it's like others have said though, "even smart people make mistakes" or whatever, but it feels like a weird pull for just that idea.

        Putting aside this, while yes obviously the 100 tampons story is extremely funny it's also potentially not that crazy? Maybe an afab comrade will tell me this is a bad take but tampons are pretty light, NASA already lives and breathes redundancy, and it's not like they go bad, so why not throw in a bunch of extra? Obviously I'm sure a lot of it was just that yeah the NASA nerds don't know how periods work and this is an absurd amount of extra but I feel that story is overblown. Will do self crit if there's something deeper about it I'm missing

        • uralsolo
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          9 months ago

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      • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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        9 months ago

        The impression I got is that she was implying that the people who were criticizing her over her comment were largely men who, being men, don't have the emotional intelligence to understand what it's like to care about hostages.

    • mar_k [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      No idea but I assumed it's an internalized misogyny joke? Like "I'm a woman, we're emotional and erratic ok!"