Babs' Avatar: Offensive

[Levin]

So a porn star dresses up like Sarah Palin, and we're supposed to laugh. In fact, pictures of this porn star dressed up as Sarah Palin in a bikini, in little-girl outfits in a classroom . . . I'm sure a movie has already been made . . . and we're supposed to laugh.

1. The mainstreaming of porn as a comical device is not funny.

2. The "I'm here to be fuc*ed" is a disgusting meme about Palin that is being peddled by disgusting figures.

3. Don't say it's no different than if a black male porn star dressed up like Barack Obama (haven't seen photo evidence of that for others' amusement and mockery) . . . In the instance of porn and the use of women as sexual tools -- it's different.

4. It's the debased joke of all jokes, and it doesn't even have the redeeming value of political satire. It plays only on stereotype, and it's sexist.

5. There's lack of respect, and then there's lack of respect.

6. We no longer have any standards about what is acceptable or appropriate so long as it's funny. Ha ha ha ha.

There are many other reasons, but I'll step down for now.