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Angus Johnston @studentactivism
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The Comedy Cellar is hosting a #metoo benefit tomorrow night. Yes, that Comedy Cellar.
In a promo email, the Comedy Cellar—which has welcomed Louis CK to its stage on multiple occasions in recent weeks—describes tomorrow's event as "a night of comedy to benefit victims of sexual harassment misconduct."
All of the announced performers at tomorrow night's fundraiser are women. The overwhelming majority of Comedy Cellar sets are either all male or nearly so.
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One more thing on youth voting: There are a lot of folks in my mentions saying kids aren’t cognitively developed enough to vote. But it’s not clear to me what that means.
At 12, the typical kid is more than able to meet baseline standards for voting—understanding what an election is, learning about candidates, managing the act of voting.
When we bar kids from making choices they’re not mature enough to make, it’s generally because we’re worried that they’ll do harm to themselves or others if allowed to choose.
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Just saw something on my feed that reminded me to remind you that if you’re a NYC (or vicinity) high school or middle school teacher and you’d like me to come talk to your students, all you have to do is say so and I’ll be there.
I've spoken with NYC middle school students about the history of youth activism, how they can make change themselves, whether we should lower the voting age—all sorts of stuff. And the conversations are always really lively.
And because it's so much fun, and because it's a subway ride away, and because I know that y'all don't have budgets for this stuff, I'm happy to do it for free. So shoot me a message if you want to set it up.
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Politico says Dems we’re “livid,” but quotes critics saying the comment was “not helpful” and not language I would use,” and saying “people should cool their jets.” “Livid” is a laughable overstatement.
No congressional Dem is going to praise that quote, but I’m not seeing anyone willing to criticize it in any but the most anodyne terms. If you’re going to do a reaction piece, that’s your story: “Dems shrug off Tlaib’s remarks.”
In addition to not being a lie, a “Dems to Tlaib: ‘Meh’” piece has the virtue of being at least vaguely counterintuitive.
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If you want a discussion that ties together the problem with politics right now, why #metoo hasn't resulted in real change, why gamers are they way they are, why Louis CK still gets audiences, here it is. America loves its petulant white men. slate.com/human-interest…
The more biographies of America's Great Men you read, the more you find yourself astonished that the authors often seem unaware that what they're describing, in scenes where the man doesn't get his way, isn't uncompromising vision, it's straight-up, childish sulking.
When I was at Microsoft, I made the observation to a colleague that the company frequently confused aggressiveness with leadership. And I've seen it time and time again: people don't want to deal with a man's tantrums if they oppose him so, they go along... (1/2)
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Laurie Penny's too eager to cozy up to neo-Nazis to be trusted, but this essay (from Feb, but feels super timely now) might be the perfect, gently-phrased 101 reading for men on a bunch of the nuances of not being part of the problem in the age of #MeToo. longreads.com/2018/02/14/the…
This is a pretty good explanation of the problem every time men start talking about their reactions to MeToo. "Women know how to suffer, apparently, and men do not, so we should carry on being punished."
And this is a good explanation of the main problem with restorative justice, the theory versus how it seems, too often, to turn out.
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A) There's also something we're not talking about...general abuse of/retaliation against women in the workplace that isn't in the sexual misconduct department. I got a message from a famous woman comedian the other night that broke my heart....(cont)
B) I've known this woman for years, told me she was basically done with being a comic. She was tired of going up against the boys club...exhausted with being made to prove herself -- something successful male comics don't have to do -- after over 15 years in the biz..
C) Not sharing exactly how long she's been in the business because i don't want people guessing who it is. But as I read this message from her I got emotional because successful male comics don't ever have these thoughts. They don't feel beaten down by the business...
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We need WAY more men in comedy to stand next to us in the #MeToo fight.
We don't need any more rape/assault apologists.
We've got plenty of those.
We don't need you to speak for us or tell us what we mean.
We need you to amplify us and call other men out on their shitty behavior.
BTW: you can take the "in comedy" out of the sentence and it would still be true.
cc: Michael Ian Black, Louis CK

I'm not ready for Louis CK to come back just yet, and I don't want to hear from a bunch of dudes that it's "time to move on".

We'll let you know when it's time.
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If they wanted fresh thoughts they would've asked someone else. What follows is salted and distilled with care over many years, and you need to be able to answer some questions in any such address 1/30
Why does experience matter in political journalism? It matters in professions like law or medicine. After six months in a supermarket there's nothing more to learn. What advantage does the experience political journo have over the inexperienced?
What, exactly, is the essence of that advantage? More importantly, what's in it for us?
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Let's define comedy:
Setup and punchline. The punchline is funny because it breaks the social, logical, or moral expectation established by the setup. Theoretically, as long as it's clever, the harder the divergence from expectation, the funnier the joke.
"James Gunn"
It's precisely why dark comedy regularly reaches for the top shelf of the worst things to joke about. The fact that those things are understood by all to be the worst things on earth means that they provide easy ways to wildly diverge from a innocent setup.
"James Gunn"
That's kind of why I don't enjoy Louis CK's comedy as much anymore... because a dark joke is an agreement between the teller and the audience that all parties know the joke's substance is wrong. Whereas the recent Louis CK revelations show that's not the case... (#MeToo)
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