[jem4water]

I think somebody has got their knickers in a twist. Though I can see where the writer is coming from, of course, can't they see that it was all just a bit of fun? I think Good News Week has had its fair share of controversy regarding what they've said on the show for viewers to understand that insuls are not meant to be taken seriously.

Not your punchline, Amanda Palmer

'If you missed this week’s Good News Week, or couldn’t see it because you’re not in Australia, here are the “disabled feminists” sledges aimed at FWD/Forward from Amanda Palmer, Des Bishop, and Paul McDermott. The ones we’ve been talking about in Otterday.

In short: Amanda Palmer compares herself to Jesus; the panel compares disabled feminists to Osama.

I am not making this up.

I’ve edited out the rest of the show, so you’re missing out on jokes about people with albinism being the ultimate white supremacists, and cracks using people with traumatic brain injuries, hand atypicalities, incontinence, psychosis, and intellectual disabilities as punchlines. You’re also missing out on a whole pile o’ rape gags.

* Background on the show in general

* Watch the full episode, if you’re in Australia

I can’t put enough warnings on this pile of douchebaggery. Seriously, I feel absolutely ill. This is naked hatred from a bunch of hyperprivileged currently-able-bodied whitefolk on national television, culminating in a violence-against-women gag, and then the comparison at the end. If you were trying to assume good faith on Amanda Palmer’s part in the conversation? You need to watch this.'

A video and the transcript of the video are then shown.

[UltraChrome]

I feel like leaving a comment about how much I love the show...

[Susan]

Do they not understand it's a comedy show?

[UltraChrome]

people like this have no sense of humour, Susan... they just... don't have one.

[ikkin88]

[Mama Flame]

Here we go again! Idiots!

Oops. Is that going too far?

[capsy_wennet]

Nothing is funnier than someone who just can't see the joke. Loving the comments "Paul McDermott and Mikey Robins are at least twenty years past their funny date" "Paul McDermott has always been a self-congratulatory twerp". It's like the opposite of here, a world in which people think GNW is shite and Paul is a big git. Fascinating.

[tawg]

I'm going to go out on a limb here, as a feminist, and say that given how hard it is for people to take feminism and it's goals seriously at the moment, we REALLY don't like being the butt of jokes. I'm also going to say that the video the article linked to it's anti-feminist, or even poking fun at feminists, other than the point out that disabled feminists are a really hard group to take on, because they are the counter to all of the privilege that the people on the panel possess (and feminism really comes down to trying to challenge the existing power and privilege structures).

I think that the author is someone who would never like the show, because they will never like the kind of comedy that it uses. But I also think that sometimes people should stop and ask why they're laughing at something.