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Hashtag OMG, Hashtag Jihadi Jane …
For those of you who haven’t yet seen this — I thought it was mildly funny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOB6UDC-67w
It has of course prompted outrage. (Insensitive, racist, sexist, etc.) Screw that.
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I was going to post this today, but you beat me to it Claire. I thought this was hilarious, and was shocked the BBC put this out. This is what humor is all about, we need to laugh in the face of evil. As Orwell said “A joke is a tiny revolution”
Well, there’s always the flipside:
The motivation is still, as they say, a mystery.
Mildly funny? It’s hilarious.
Of course, the usual suspects are appalled.
Because (Newsflash!, apparently) they’ve suddenly discovered that women, under the Islamic State, are being abused and mistreated, so they don’t like the fact that their lives are being made fun of here.
As The New York Times points out:
Newsflash! back: If this is what it takes to get the usual suspects to recognize the problem, and to put this sort of statement on its website and in its pages, then I’m all for it.
Even though my old hometown, Birmingham, is specifically called out in the video, with the implication that it’s where many of the “Real ISIS Housewives” come from.
Which I am sure it is. That breaks my heart.
Love it. Reminds me of the father-daughter ad SNL did.
I was looking at her twitter page which is still up.
I saw this: “Congrats Dr. Mohammed Shamji — insertion of 1st MRI compatible #spinalcordstimulator in Canada!” — Elana Fric Shamji, 24 Oct 2016
Well, I guess a neurosurgeon would make an effective killer.
Two promising doctor careers ruined, and three children now without a mom or dad.
It made me smile a bit but not laugh. I’m a tough audience, I guess.
It was amusing for sure but there are no jokes in it so I didn’t laugh. That is to say, I found it quite British.
Don’t fudge Clair, like the rest of us you thought it was VERY funny. I shared it on my FB timeline and encouraged others to share it like crazy, laughter can be a powerful weapon against the evil insanity of idiots.
I thought it was funny enough to share with all of you. But honestly, I laughed like a sieve this morning watching one of my cats fail around the apartment trying to catch a catnip mouse. The video only got a wry smile out of me. I cannot lie, I did not laugh out loud.
The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
— Mark Twain
Unleash the wisenheimers.
I laughed outloud when she was scrubbing the floor and said “bullsh*t!”
More than mildly funny. Hilarious IMO. I don’t have to laugh out loud for something to be very funny.
Second! Also:
No idea.
They said on the radio that the purpose of it is to ridicule hate – and we have the right to ridicule anything in a free society – a thumb in their eye. The British radio host and guests want more of it – on social media – everywhere. I didn’t think it was funny either, but if it serves that purpose, then chuckle away.
I find it hysterical! And these actresses extremely courageous. Me thinks a few are probably Muslim, too. If so, I call it a major advance.
I must confess that I smiled.
As a piece of art it wasn’t the best but the thought of it making the PC crowd’s heads explode makes it very special.
That’s horrible. I just posted it on Facebook……er……I mean…..to show how insensitive that kind of thing is.
Shame on you, Claire !
I feel a bit guilty laughing at it. Obviously, these women will all be killed…..er…..the future does not belong to them.
It’s interesting that this video was released at all. It is very dark humor.
I didn’t laugh either. I’m not sure if that was because the jokes were predictable, or because the topic isn’t really that funny. It all kind of felt very obvious, and the key to making people laugh is to create a surprise for them. Our discombobulation at how the punch line resolves the setup is what gets expressed as laughter. The moment you see the title of this piece you know exactly where it is going.
That was good.
I agree with Miss Berlinski that this other thing is mildly funny. Liberals mocking Islamists is not the brave thing we make it out to be, even if most of us are not brave enough to do it.
Re: comment # 14
Tom Meyer,
Just read the article at your link. It’s fascinating and devastating. Suddenly jokes and humorous skits about the situation do seem wrong. That article is mind blowing.
Watching this video I got the same feeling I get from watching a good impressionist. The guy can do a good impression, he amuses me, he entertains me, he makes me smile… but he isn’t funny. Funny is a different thing.
Frank Caliendo is a remarkable impressionist but not very funny. Dana Carvey is a lesser impressionist but is very funny.
Well put. Imitation in itself gives pleasure. But it is not all that mindful…
It’s been pulled from Youtube. Anyone know where else it might be available?
I thought the SNL skit was good.(Pains me to say so, because I hate SNL. I’ve been bitter about that show since, at least, 22 or more years ago when they made a snarky remark about Korean shop keepers supposedly unreasonably fearful of being robbed by customers who were black. At the time the episode of SNL included that remark, I was working for a family of Korean flea market vendors. Frequently, as we worked long hours on our feet—often in intense heat or freezing cold—we we’d be surrounded and robbed by groups of young people, all of whom did happen to be black. My employers were the most stoic and hardest working people I’ve ever known. Their love and self sacrifice for their children—one now a lawyer, the other a doctor—made me ashamed. Anyway, while I won’t watch SNL, that skit is very good.)
Interesting. When I click on Claire’s link I get a message that the video has been pulled because of a copyright claim. But search “Real Housewives of ISIS” and it popped right up.
A couple good laugh lines. I completely agree with Claire’s response to the outraged.
I disagree. That article was about Syrian women whose lives were turned upside down by the arrival of ISIS and had to make really tough choices. I see both the SNL and BBC skits as mocking western women (yes, including Muslim women from the West) who have chosen to go to the hellholes. Frankly, the skits are probably the best way possible to cut down on the number of young women trying to get to ISIS from the West.