Comments on: Absurd http://susiemadrak.com/2008/04/09/15/20/absurd/ Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media. Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:12:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Sweet Sue http://susiemadrak.com/2008/04/09/15/20/absurd/#comment-140550 Sweet Sue Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:48:07 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/?p=24417#comment-140550 I call my cats "little monkeys" all the time; I 'm sure if I had kids I'd call them the same thing. I remember how hurt and bewildered Cosell was at the time. Bewildered because as he said, "I call my grandkids little monkeys" and hurt because Ali didn't come to his defense. Is it now wrong to say "more fun than a barrelful of monkeys?" Look if you really want to be mad at someone be mad at Mitch Miller. In the late fifties, when he had a popular TV show (I know-go figure. Well there was no cable), the lovely and talented little Leslie Uggams performed on his show and the producers sent out a monkey-or chimp-dressed in an identical outfit. She later wrote how confused and mortified she was. My point is that sometimes a monkey is really an insult; sometimes it's just a primate. I call my cats “little monkeys” all the time; I ‘m sure if I had kids I’d call them the same thing. I remember how hurt and bewildered Cosell was at the time. Bewildered because as he said, “I call my grandkids little monkeys” and hurt because Ali didn’t come to his defense.
Is it now wrong to say “more fun than a barrelful of monkeys?”
Look if you really want to be mad at someone be mad at Mitch Miller. In the late fifties, when he had a popular TV show (I know-go figure. Well there was no cable), the lovely and talented little Leslie Uggams performed on his show and the producers sent out a monkey-or chimp-dressed in an identical outfit. She later wrote how confused and mortified she was. My point is that sometimes a monkey is really an insult; sometimes it’s just a primate.

]]> By: Izquierdo http://susiemadrak.com/2008/04/09/15/20/absurd/#comment-140530 Izquierdo Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:36:35 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/?p=24417#comment-140530 The same remark effectively ended Howard Cosell's football broadcasting career. BTW, why is Cenk Ugyur's delivery so lame? It's halting, repetitoous, and somewhat lacking in coherence. The same remark effectively ended Howard Cosell’s football broadcasting career.

BTW, why is Cenk Ugyur’s delivery so lame?
It’s halting, repetitoous, and somewhat lacking in coherence.

]]> By: k http://susiemadrak.com/2008/04/09/15/20/absurd/#comment-140520 k Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:03:10 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/?p=24417#comment-140520 But it's okay to beat your wife with a baseball bat. I think the woman should be commended for trying to do the right thing, even if it would seem to me, here on the outside, that it's an over-reaction. I am sorry if she is being unjustly punished. But it’s okay to beat your wife with a baseball bat.
I think the woman should be commended for trying to do the right thing, even if it would seem to me, here on the outside, that it’s an over-reaction. I am sorry if she is being unjustly punished.

]]> By: KidRanger http://susiemadrak.com/2008/04/09/15/20/absurd/#comment-140515 KidRanger Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:14:05 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/?p=24417#comment-140515 Get over yourselves, ya thin-skinned ninnies. Sometimes a monkey is just a monkey, especially where kids are concerned. Get over yourselves, ya thin-skinned ninnies. Sometimes a monkey is just a monkey, especially where kids are concerned.

]]> By: MrSnrub http://susiemadrak.com/2008/04/09/15/20/absurd/#comment-140510 MrSnrub Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:57:02 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/?p=24417#comment-140510 Chris: same here. Our son is bi-racial and personally avoiding the usage makes sense. Chris: same here. Our son is bi-racial and personally avoiding the usage makes sense.

]]> By: chris http://susiemadrak.com/2008/04/09/15/20/absurd/#comment-140509 chris Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:46:54 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/?p=24417#comment-140509 I don't call my 3 year old a monkey AT ALL. The big reason is that while I'm white, she's part white and part African American. I have been tempted to. So many times I've come this close to blurting out that she's climbing or hanging or jumping like a monkey. But I've stop myself everytime. The word just has so much racial baggage that goes with it. I don’t call my 3 year old a monkey AT ALL.

The big reason is that while I’m white, she’s part white and part African American. I have been tempted to. So many times I’ve come this close to blurting out that she’s climbing or hanging or jumping like a monkey. But I’ve stop myself everytime. The word just has so much racial baggage that goes with it.

]]> By: MrSnrub http://susiemadrak.com/2008/04/09/15/20/absurd/#comment-140508 MrSnrub Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:13:27 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/?p=24417#comment-140508 I can't believe that parents called the cops over this. I can’t believe that parents called the cops over this.

]]> By: brendancalling http://susiemadrak.com/2008/04/09/15/20/absurd/#comment-140506 brendancalling Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:46:45 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/?p=24417#comment-140506 that is f-ing idiotic. I call my kid a monkey all the time. For chrissakes, <a href="http://brendancalling.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/sam-easter-resize9.JPG" rel="nofollow">with his new haircut he actually LOOKS like a monkey</a>. I love love love how everything is parsed these days for the sake of offending someone, anyone. We're a nation of hypersensitive ninnies. I'm sure the next time I ask someone, "hey you eat yet" I'll get called an anti-semite (that's for all you Annie Hall fans). I never realized that calling a kid a monkey for climbing the walls is the same thing as calling him a racial epithet. Dogwhistle, my ass. This is just hypersensitive nincompoopery. that is f-ing idiotic.
I call my kid a monkey all the time. For chrissakes, with his new haircut he actually LOOKS like a monkey.

I love love love how everything is parsed these days for the sake of offending someone, anyone. We’re a nation of hypersensitive ninnies. I’m sure the next time I ask someone, “hey you eat yet” I’ll get called an anti-semite (that’s for all you Annie Hall fans).
I never realized that calling a kid a monkey for climbing the walls is the same thing as calling him a racial epithet.
Dogwhistle, my ass. This is just hypersensitive nincompoopery.

]]> By: JJ http://susiemadrak.com/2008/04/09/15/20/absurd/#comment-140504 JJ Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:35:14 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/?p=24417#comment-140504 Uh-oh ... stay out of this one. "Monkey" is a dogwhistle word, no matter how it's intended. Uh-oh … stay out of this one. “Monkey” is a dogwhistle word, no matter how it’s intended.

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