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Chris Pratt: Our Kind of Actor
From Chris Pratt’s
I refuse to believe Pratt wrote that, because no one can be that good looking and rich and talented, and also that clever.
…and if he is that’s just not fair.
(*this is not an endorsement of the lefty definition of equality.)
I saw that post. It’s funny. Lovable comedic types might escape the next round of defenestrations-
While we can appreciate Mr. Pratt’s apology, I can’t help but wonder if this is more about selling tickets than any true regret on his part. (Something or other)-phobia is an ugliness that our society should not put up with. To prove he is sincere about this apology, I would hope that Mr. Pratt also make a sizable donation my
hate groupum . . . Action Committee to help fight the kind of bias he has shown.Sincerely,
(Activist to be Named at a Later Date)
There is nothing like comedy to make frumpy-types look as silly as they really are.
And he’s a Seahawks fan!
I am so deeply offended by this fake apology.
(Sorry, I was just practicing.)
Do you think he was being kind of a smartalec because of the trouble his Avengers co-stars have gotten into on their publicity junket interviews? Most notably Robert Downey Jr?
I love Chris Pratt even more now.
That’s what comes from spending so much time with Ron Swanson.
He’s also a grand example of what can result from a strong work ethic. After all, he started his career playing a “chubby slacker” before hitting the gym to become a bona fide superhero.
It’s almost enough to get me to stop eating white bread and do a few minutes on the elliptical every morning.
Almost…
Wait a minute!
Calm down and think a bit before you do anything drastic!
Life-altering decisions can be made in the heat of the moment if you aren’t careful.
I dislike the impulse of many on the conservative side to immediately embrace famous entertainers the minute they say something that could be construed as a whisker to the right of the looniest left. (I admit to occasionally sharing the impulse, but I do my utmost to resist it.)
With the harrumphing out of the way, though, Chris Pratt’s post is both clever and adorable. Will the targets of his mockery have any idea that they are being mocked?
Not really, which is mostly why he can get away with it-
I think the OP is more akin to a “Like” on Facebook than an embrace of Pratt and everything he stands for.
Nope. Pretty sure even if you told them you’d get a blank stare:
Chris Pratt: Our Kind of Actor
(emphasis added)
This simply confirms that humor is rape.
To pre-emptively mock that which is done to foster social justice is itself a racist, homophobic, misogenistic and otherwise broadly unacceptable. Because Chris Pratt has asserted his privilege and rejected the right of the powerless to seek specific redress, he has offended ALL potentially offended persons and thus achieved maximum culpability. An apology for his apology is now required.
We covered this already:
http://ricochet.com/the-age-of-apology/
#repostshaming
;-)
Fair point, especially considering how much I’m annoyed by the injudicious overuse of words like “we” in any case.
I’ll be expecting an official apology from Peter by end-of-business today…
Somebody has got to try to say ‘we’. At least he is not suspected of nefarious intentions. There’s a lot of mutual suspicion going on–why there’s not a lot of well received talk of what we are or who we are or what we are for-
It’s appropriate to make an appeal to ‘we’. It is not appropriate to speak for ‘we’.
IMHO, of course.
Well, then there is no we. & your claim cannot be merely your opinion: It is you speaking for all of us–kindly allow me to sneak into the grammatical we there–against someone else speaking for all of us!
Or so it seems to me. I do not say you are wrong to do this–if I understand correctly–but I do say, you are doing what Mr. Robinson is doing, it is the same sort of thing. It has to do with what kind of people we are, what we have in common, if anything…
I suppose he can be forgiven.
I dunno, we should check and see if he can run.
(*I say this as a Seahawks fan)
We’re making a mockery of mock mocking mockers. And don’t mock this mocking post.
Yabbut, I’m redeemed by my IMHO.
;-)
Clearly! I retract everything above–see you in the PIT-
I heard he called a lady triceratops a “harlot” and a “strumpet” on the set of “Jurassic World.” Why is a female ‘saur slighted so, when the male ones are lionized as “four-pronged dino-mos?” He should never work again.