Wednesday, February 17, 2010

There is a limit

There is a limit to tolerating jokes about transpeople, or worse non-transpeople who people try to make into transpeople. Daniel Tosh on Comedy Central did just that when the network ran a 1:20 (min:sec) segment by him on the worldest tallest model. She is 6'8" among other measurements he cites, but more so, he tries to make her into a him.

There is a point where tasteless becomes offensive, and this segment passed it at great speed into the area that not just Mr. Tosh should apologize, which wouldn't be serious or accepted anyway, but Comedy Central should apologize to viewers but more importantly to the model and to transgender people. It's beyond comedy.

Apparently Mr. Tosh hasn't spent any time around tall women. Maybe he should visit a WNBA game and make similar comments about the women players. How long do you think he would last against them? How long would you think they'd take before they (verbally) cut his dick and balls off and stuff them down his throat?

And apparently Mr. Tosh thinks height equates to sex or gender. Obviously he hasn't spent much time observing the diversity of people. They come in all shapes and sizes. They come in all heights too. Maybe a group of tall(er) women should corral him and have a short conversation about his size as a man. Obviously Mr. Tosh isn't very tall. And mabye Mr. Tosh is hiding something too which isn't appropriate for his sex?

Mr. Tosh deserves whatever crap people can give him. Maybe someone should do a segment on him, the world's most tasteless gay man, who despite appearing to be of normal height, weight and physical size has his brain is in his dick, and is so small it took a microscope to find it. You could do a whole line of jokes about him similar to those he made about the model.

He only goes to show there is a limit to being totally tasteless, insensitive and offensive. Sometimes we see examples of the extremes well past the limit to remember where the limit is when being human, and leave it to Comedy Central to ignore the limits of decency to show the extreme. All the more reason I don't watch the channel.

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