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1
How about if you just don't use gendered insults, Paul? Is that a big sacrifice for you?

You can probably come up with something that doesn't involve apologies to any particular group or papier-mache organ.
2
I thought this was a Between Two Ferns With Zach Galifianakis-style awkward setup interview on purpose. Was it not?
3
I mean, if you are going to claim that gendered insults at all are wrong, you kind of just have to go with it all the way, lest you be a hypocrite. Sexism does not magically become ok if it is directed toward the tribe that is not your own.

People will say that "dick" is ok because of power dynamics, but really people just do not want to lose the "freedom" to call people dicks. It is a great little compact insult, isn't it? But then again, we could all just use "asshole" and skip the whole gender mess. Does make our profanity a bit dull though.

Personally, I do not really care what words people choose to use, but there it is.
4
Dick (Dickish, dickishness, etc) may be gendered, but it does have a particular meaning. Although women have real power over men in certain scenarios and can therefore be "reverse sexist" (unlike reverse-racism, which can't happen in our current time). In this case, a journalist for a free mag-rag can use it against an actor in pop-movies, and it's no harm no foul.
5
Yes, if you would just capitulate to the demands of your critics, you'd save yourself a lot of trouble.
7
Why the fuck is Jussie Eisenberg so hot? FUCK.
8
@6 If both are bad, why use either?
9
@8 - Because sometimes using "bad" words is an effective way to make a point? And sometimes because I just fucking feel like it and you're not my real mom anyway?
11
Junkets, with a hundred talking heads all trying to be "cute" and "unique" and provocative with someone whose brain has just undergone a nonstop series of interviews are enough to make any actor go through a grumpy nervous breakdown. I have some sympathy, even if some are able to to smile cheerfully (and SEEMINGLY effortlessly) through all the monotony.
12
@6: I understand that fully, but it is equally easy to understand that using gendered insults while claiming that sexism and gendered insults are wrong makes one a hypocrite.
13
I assumed (and still do) that it was scripted. Isn't this how it works? Evidence: what was supposed to happen? She was going to ask him to do a card trick and then that's the end? How would anybody feel motivated to link to that?

14
Area Man Watches Clip Six Times To Figure Out If Celebrity Was Rude.
15
@9 Fair enough. Now I won't feel bad about calling you a hypocritical cunt.
16
This clip was actually kind of cute. I didn't sense any true awkwardness. And that little interviewer is adorable, whoever she is!
17
@2, it is, and she's getting a pass based on her looks. I don't think she's a dick, just beautiful and unoriginal.
18
What do you mean, "the" male reproductive organ? I thought all males had them. I know I do, and if you think you're apologizing to mine you've got another think coming.

@15, now you're talking. Eisenberg is clearly the cunt here. The interviewer is a SILLY cunt, which is an entirely different thing. Neither are reproductive organs.
20
Some great deadpan humor from Eisenberg there.
21
Hey Blip, go ahead and rationalize your double standard any way you like.

Personally, I'm not super invested in policing anybody's speech. But the example given does smack of hypocrisy, and your reasoning is flimsy.

22
Why did Paul feel the need to incite an argument about gender politics in a stupid poll about some movie? I'm starting to cringe whenever I see "Feminist" or "MRA" in an article, because the way some people argue in comments belies their view that everything is a zero-sum game; that addressing valid complaints by men marginalizes women, and vice-versa. And then there's all the name-calling... blech
24
Slog commenters are all dicks. Aren't we?

I don't know who these young people are.
25
If you read her account of what happened, wherein she whines about what a mean, mean man Jesse Eisenberg is, you realize that she's just a big old baby who came unprepared and couldn't handle his (very mild, almost brotherly) teasing. http://univisionnews.tumblr.com/post/506…
26
Who is worse of the prickish large ego celeb and the celeb gossip reporter? Tough question, Paul ...
27
Uh, he was there to promote something, she tried to be cute, flirtatious, get herself promoted, oh, and do a magic trick when HE was the one in the movie about magic.

No, she's not a dick. She's something else but I think most of her friends and the 3 fan boys in the corner all know that. She just doesn't.

Go Jesse.
28
Social Justice Sallys is such dicks and/or cunts.
29
Am I really the only one who caught the fact that Mr. Eisenberg decided to be such a <> to the knit-witted-but-oh-so-pretty-love-me-because-I’m-famous-online-so-called-entertainment-"journalist" conducting the interview because she started the interview off by referring to his co-star (and only one of the most celebrated and influential living American actors) in an all to disrespectfully-familiar, not to mention inaccurate ("Freemand"?!? really?) way. Per @11, I think that would be plenty to justify Mr. Eisenberg's <>-ishness! In fact, I give him props for being able to make the overly entitled little twit look SO bad without anyone being able to deride him for being any more than just mildly-awkwardly demeaning. Well played Mr. Eisenberg... well played!
30
Until I saw her complaining about this, I just thought it was a humorous interview.
31
The Winklevoss twins are both dicks. Or the same dick.
32
@26: "large ego celeb"

He was in a big movie, but he's still a person able to be pushed to their breaking point by a person who confuses them for their movie role.
33
@29, knit-witted? Was that intentional? If so, why?
34
I thought this was a put-on.

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