Well, this one probably won’t be popular, belt in.
I just saw that Roseanne Barr is super pissed about all the support James Gunn is getting after his firing from Disney. Now, to be clear, I give Roseanne a lot of leeway for the simple reason that she’s mentally ill and clearly one of her folks should be taking away her damn cell phone… but even I can’t shrug off the Valerie Jarrett tweets that got her fired. Yes, she was fired, and she should have been fired. She NEEDED to be fired.
Why did Roseanne need to be fired?
I’m so glad you asked, Curious Reader. She needed to be fired because her vitriol was directed out at a person who could be hurt from it. Because, even though she’s brushed up against the concept of consequences for shooting her mouth off in a hurtful, insulting TO INDIVIDUAL PEOPLE fashion, she never bothered to actually understand that there are other people in the world who have feelings.
That’s the stupid part about all this. If Roseanne (and you know, a bunch of other people that suffer from the same delusion that only their feelings matter) had a heart to heart with Mister Rogers and tried like, I dunno, listening, we could get back to having new seasons of a great show. But no.
Now what does this have to do with James Gunn?
Excellent question!
- Mr. Gunn’s tweets were nearly ten years ago.
- Mr. Gunn had already recognized his tweets were in bad taste, and thus, apologized for them. (And I never saw a quote that said “meds made me do it”.)
- Mr. Gunn’s tweets aren’t part of a pedophile bonding group.
- Mr. Gunn’s tweets, while not exactly hysterically funny, were still meant to provoke a humorous/look at how edgy I am kind of reaction.
And, well, if you’re a three year old and he hurt you feelings by reminding you you don’t pee very hard… I’m not even sure a three year old would be offended. You said pee, they are giggling.
To me, it’s really sad that Disney can’t recognize the difference between someone out to hurt and someone who’s just painfully unfunny. Now Guardians (a series about a bunch of assholes finding meaning and how not to be a bunch of assholes) is kinda doomed, and that’s really too bad.
Curiouser and Curiouser 