Thank you, finally someone who understands the true meaning! He was using all this unusual words that definitely aren’t in anyone’s vocabulary no matter what political party you are apart of. Felt like someone intentionally using as many words as possible to reach the word requirement.
Are you stupid. You’re seriously unread if you believe those aren’t words used in feminist literature. Like it’s cool you didn’t know, but you should. those are actual quotes. The only word I had never heard before was “androcratic”
1Peasant and they are academics and write “academic research” using those words, which infiltrate into society as other leftist gain position at “woke” corporations quote those same academics. Every word you’ve heard from the left was coined by an academic
One of the most underappreciated Onion skits. Mainly because nobody understands the joke. The joke isn't that Republicans are stupid monkeys that can't read. The joke isn't that feminism bad. The joke is at the expense of those who only have a purely academic understanding of systemic issues. The joke is that no average person would ever be converted by such complex and irregular language regardless of how correct it might be. And the joke is made funnier by the fact that Trump voters are usually considered "simple". They tend to have very straight forward and simple issues with society, so it's totally ridiculous to think that they would ever be convinced by such a verbose description of any of these issues.
@@sertgy. "If you need a job and want to keep more of your cheque, vote for me!" Versus "Either vote for me or be a complicit individual to the culture of systemic institutions!"
Everyone's so focused on pinning down who's being poked at here, but that's not the point. It's funny because of the juxtaposition and the unlikely scenario.
You could then argue that this is making fun of how leftist theory doesn't work, as it often is too wordy to actually hit its target audience (in this case, those that lean right)? So the video is basically saying that leftist theory doesn't work, and needs a change. The video can basically be called a critisism of that. That's what I believe, anyways. The Onion videos _do_ tend to have a message behind them, even if hidden in several layers (heh) of comedy or absurdity.
It's about the idiocy of leftist theory and rhetoric. Those who already believe in equality only read these things to reaffirm their beliefs, meanwhile, conservatives will put their fingers in their ears rather than listen to it.
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@@asherujudo7383 Quite literally no. Again, it pokes some fun at the academic, enlightened, relatively wealthy white men who are suddenly big leftist philosophers, but besides that LITERALLY the joke, VERY EXPLICITLY is that if conservatives read a book or two maybe they would realise that their worldview is based on pure emotional reaction and gut feelings.
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@@asherujudo7383 to quote the big "intellectual" Ben Shapiro says, conservativism is literally "feelings over facts"
@ Nah, you're not detecting the sarcasm. It's so obvious the Onion is fucking with leftists who genuinely think that they can change conservatives minds. It's depicting a highly unlikely and thus hilarious scenario of a conservative whose mind changed due to leftist rhetoric. It's sad thing, but it's impossible to change their minds. They can only be coerced but never convinced. It'd be easier to teach a five year old rocket science.
Swarthmore is a great place to see those poetry slams, but the closest steel town is Reading an hour and change away. That's dedication right there. Props to this man
Ganga Din I’d say it’s two levels deep, it’s making fun of the strawmen the trump folks have made up of what the left is. Do you honestly believe most Democrats talk like this? Because if so, you’re the brunt of stage two of the joke.
Ganga Din and there it is. It’s beautiful in a way. Skit makes fun of both sides, your response: “lol look how good they made fun of those other guys hyuk hyuk”. It’s still working on the mentally deficient literally YEARS later, and I love it
Honestly having English as my third language, frequently I face comments such as yours and never really get it why you people call it fake news. Sad to say the least.
The Learner It’s because The Onion is actually fake. It’s all satire. Nothing the onion actually posts is real. For example, this video is a paid actor reading from a script.
This man's performance is unbelievably flawless. If 6 year old, 2 minute UA-cam videos by parody news sites could be nominated for Oscars, I'd hope this would be at the top of the list.
They should have ended it with a line like “well now that I understand I’m privileged, I’ll have a new attitude at the unemployment office in Pittsburg Monday.” Hahahaha. We’re all fucked
Judith Butler is famous, even in academia, for her purposely obscure writing. See this quote: “The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power.”
@@randomperson2078 If you think this is though - Try Donna Haraway. She's outright enigmatic. Sometimes I wonder if Queer theory isn't science but more of an art form that isn't supposed to be understood.
@@krautreport202 If they replaced those theorists with just one of Larry Kramer’s books, it would be much more respectable. Out of curiosity, how did you come into contact with Haraway and Butler?
People really like to dissect this stuff but I’m pretty sure a couple folks got stoned and thought “wouldn’t it be funny if a regular ass factory worker got totally converted after binge reading some feminist literature?”
doesn't matter. if you express genuine commentary, which good comedy like this does, then you automatically carry genuine observations. Genuine observations spark useful discussion,
Well, yeah, but why is it funny? I think the point is that the academic community is so insular and so full of jargon that the only people who understand it are those who already agree with them. Also I think it's poking fun at the idea that someone who chanted "lock her up" would be very much concerned with how the system oppresses women.
@@Hakajin Recently I started reading some academic authors (mainly Judith Butler) and at first I though ''how hard would it be to understand?'' and holy shit I had to google the definition of around 20 words in the first 10 pages. There is virtually no way for someone without previous knowledge of queer feminist theory to understand a single page of Butler's ideas.
@@Hakajin It's funny, because it's absurd. A diehard trump supporter from a coal area wouldn't start reading this kind of literature and suddenly start reflecting on his position in society.
@@J_1791 lol all that critique he said is legitimate though - and if you read 800 pages of theory you'd realize the feminists have good critiques of the subtle ways gender roles play into our everyday interactions. But also, liberals are stupid for trying to make that shit the center of their ideology when everyday Americans are just trying to do their jobs and pay their fucking bills. Both. It's making fun of both.
It's not both. If you were laughing at the expense of Trump voters during this video then you're just projecting. Unless you think that just the fact that this guy voted for Trump is a hilarious joke, or take the mentioning of a steel mill to be some brutal burn on those idiot Trump voters...
@@1Peasant Gheeze, you don't gotta take it personal lol. Look man, part of the absurdist humor in this clip comes from the notion that a trump supporter would ever pick up a book on feminist theory. Honestly, boiling it down to just "feminism dumb lol" is an insult to the onion writers. They're far more clever than that. They know how to poke fun at everyone all at once. And no, it's not about sick burns, it's not about being mean. It's about pointing out funny contradictions in our society.
Maybe it’s a satirizing how some people try to use rather abstract, academic language to try to appeal to people who have neither the education nor the inclination to understand it. It may be profound, but it’s as good as German without spending tens of thousands of dollars to understand it. I myself studied some sociology in school, but have no idea what that last line was about. I’d have to have read the book to even understand the concepts mentioned, because they’re either rather unique to that thinker or because rather esoteric
It's definitely not ENGLISH majors. Being that isn't about fancy words, at all. It's about understanding literature, most of which is written in the common language of the time. It's just when you're talking about Shakespeare and such, it's words from hundreds of years ago so they are different from current common words.
@@richvee214 They were making fun of elitism. Not saying the ideas of feminist theory was wrong, more to the condescending tone liberals have towards Trump voters in assuming they're just uneducated, ignorant, fools and that if they simply read the right stuff, they wouldn't think like they do. The Onion is generally more left-wing when it comes to their satire, but an important thing to note is that leftist don't consider Liberalism to be left-leaning, rather centre-right. An oldie but still relevant to how liberalism is viewed by the Left ua-cam.com/video/3cdqQ2BdgOA/v-deo.html
i swear the polar bears keep dying off every few years and somehow make the numbers back to do it again. but i could see them doing it out of spite or something. i still remember my grandfather's story of when a polar bear went miles just to beat up the helicopter they flew over him in, without even bothering with a single person in that camp
you joke but a guy in a community college sociology class i took was literally this exact man. he was like 65 and a vietnam vet and the entire semester, that man’s mind was constantly being blown by our assigned readings on intersectional feminism, systemic racism, etc. his enthusiasm was unparalleled
Except good luck finding a guy to play the part of the man and say it unironically. He wouldn't be a middle aged man who is clearly un-privileged and looks like he has lived a hard life, the best they could do to fill the part would be a shrill whiny voiced low testosterone 20-something gender ambiguous man with purple dyed hair.
Yeah but its also critizing trump supporters. I guess you are just a one sided, simple minded, anti-feminest and therefore anti-left and therefore conservative fuck wit.
Imo it is critizing partisanship on both sides. The joke is that you would never see this happen because X side (in this case trumples) would never switch over. Just because it listed relatively far left social believes doesn't mean it is critizing the believes. They could be for sure but also couldn't. Onion News is pretty bipartisan in its parodies but who really fucking knows.
@@glassesthegreat6566 ok but did you know that they removed "whom" from the standard Grammar textbooks a few years ago because it isn't being used anymore?!? Just as I was finally getting the hang of that one! 😒
I have no clue why but the idea of older steel working men attending queer slam poetry nights and talking gender studies at work is a hilarious image in my head
I think it's because it has the earnestness of outsiders who have found their place juxtaposed with the joy of something edgy like a poetry slam, and the fact that a guy like him would never, ever, ever, ever be able to understand what I just said. And all that ironically placed with him being one of them. Absurdism at its best. And layers of the onion.
Uhh because it's totally ridiculous? The only people who obsess about that stuff are highly emotional and fragile, the complete opposite of older working class men
This is making fun of everyone at the same time, without making fun of anyone, talking absolute bullshit while dropping truth bombs all over. This messes with my head
It seems, to me, that it's, just, making fun, of the idea, that, if everyone was given this stuff, to read, they would change their minds, to what progressives think is right, without any, of their preconceived bias, acting, up (I'm a progressive, but I'm not gonna pretend, that I'm incapable, of being biased)
@@sevencubed_ I think it's more making fun of the fact that some progressives believe that steel factory workers in the Midwest would care enough about this kind of thing. Whilst also making it almost indecipherable to most 'uneducated' people
@@sevencubed_ I think, it’s, more making, fun, of the, fact, that if, conservatives, were to, actually, read 800 pages, of, this, sort of, thing, they would, probably, change their, opinion, but no, conservative from a rural, background, would ever, actually, do that
Okay, so I laughed at this and thought it was funny, but I was also thinking about this skit days later, so I think it's got a few deeper messages as well if you peel back the layers. For example, it doesn't matter how accurate or inaccurate liberal intellectualism is; it's not going to change the minds of rural blue collar workers who feel that Trump is the first president to speak to them on their level and actually listen to them. I think there is value in pursuits of manual/skilled labor vs. academia, but both sides are speaking a completely different language and this leads to an even bigger disconnect which is why we're so polarized rn.
I can raise your thought there. There is no party for either sides is the real problem. Neither the leftist intellectual thought which is very well established poses great questions and the labor workers who are out there with day to day problems. Both parties have among each other different sets of corporations they are responsible for and pander to these classes and minorities only as a veil, promising incremental change that won’t affect mosts life overall as they are ultimately trying to just keep the system from changing. Again because these parties are ultimately servants to the winners of the system. And if things change winners might not stay winners. I am not saying this in an evil conspiracy way but more this is how things landed apparently. Under normal circumstances leftist intellligencia and the laborers should be on the same side against those that would undermine the vox populi but the wedge between them has grown so large in America.
Politicians are paid by sponsors to win elections and enact changes. They care about votes only as much as they need to. This is why swing states are so powerful - they can and will vote in whomever they feel like. I personally don't understand the idea of voters belonging to a party - if you'll always vote for them, neither they nor their rivals have any reason to do anything for you.
And it isnt even just limited to white collar to blue collar. We have developed into highly specialized society. We have to train for years (college or apprenticeship or school of hard knocks) to even reach entry level in just about any field. People devote their lives in pursuit of their specialization, going further and further down the rabbit holes and further away from generalization. Two people with similar training experiences but in different fields might miss each other in conversation like two ships in the night just as much as white collar and blue collar people having a conversation. We are highly specialized and speak mostly to people pursuing the same specialization, we take knowledge of our specialization as granted general knowledge, and then we talk passed each other, down playing skills the other person has because they are not skilled in our specialization where we are comfortable.
US is polarized because they have a 2 party system. :-) The rest of the world has more like 5-10 parties to pick and choose from. In comparison to the US, the politicians of other countries don't waste nearly as much time to attack 'the other side'. Instead they promote their own ideas. After the elections the parties have to work together and create coalitions to reach the +50% to build a functioning goverment. P.S: 1/8th of the population has an IQ of
This actor and the wardrobe department deserve an Emmy. Everything about him is so realistic, which makes the satire even better. The Carhartt jacket, slick back hair, the way he talks, even the way he wears his glasses. It’s literally perfect.
I see it as a reality check. While academics take themselves very seriously when they think of and write these things, given the degree to which they actually might have an effect on the average working person, they might as well be speaking a different language.
Yeah, something we the left have to act for, understand that why trump won was bc we were like aliens to the general population, then again, It seems like the left is becoming more intelligible
What's really being parodied is the video format. It's this stupid thing where they sit someone down who used to believe one thing but now believes other thing. They sit them down in some dull set and play serious music with interspersed clips of people who still believe other thing being dumb and bad. The format is being parodied by turning it up to 11, the guy went from these very vague and general pro-trump statements to extremely technical academic feminism. Especially around this time it was extremely easy to see vids like this with former republicans or democrats being super serious about how everyone totally had to switch to stop hillary or trump from blowing up the world or whatever, how their mind was blown after their niece sent them a buzzfeed article on facebook which changed their whole worldview lmao. Incredibly stupid format and this is a brilliant parody of it.
_"A couple of other guys from work attended [the gender-fluid non-binary poetry slam at Swarthmore] too, and now it's all we talk about on the line."_ -Mike Bridger, former Trump supporter
@@catrielmarignaclionti4518 Late reply, but no, it wasn't stolen. I literally quoted the video and added quotation marks. Everyone knows where it came from.
@@CameloSupeito i have no idea where my pfp is from. I just picked a stylized letter B. Also, i looked up this wizards and witches thing and the letter is a W, so idk why you said that?
@@babbisp1 Each book has a different letter, but i read it years ago and they might change the covers from country to country (in my language both "wizards" and "witches" start with B). Anyways, its a cool B
As a Philosophy major who spent much of their time studying feminist philosophy and gender studies, the Judith Butler quote hit hard. Absolute peak satire.
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I read 799 pages and I still believe I made the right choice voting for Donald. Hey, what’s this? Page 800? Might as well re-OH GOD WHY DID I VOTE FOR HIM?!
Have you ever felt like.if the answer section of UA-cam, on phone, is crushing the answers from both sides? Like if the side borders of the phone were closing with each other?
Would have been more woke if he had the same lesson but still wanted the Destroyer of Libya Hillary “Bringer of Slaves” Clinton to be locked up for her crimes as a capitalist.
"Gender is not to culture as sex is to nature; gender is also the discursive/cultural means by which 'sexed nature' or a 'natural sex' is produced and established as 'preduscursuve', prior to culture. A politically neutral surface on which culture acts." *If I had just known that back in November,....* 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I have those goddamn lines over and over and it makes no sense to me. Wtf does it mean? I understand some of the most advanced physics theories but I could not make anything of that. It's just gibberish.
Zzakii18 I find it hard to believe that you “know the most advanced physics concepts” but still cannot make any sense out the quote. The quote isn’t just some gibberish made up for the video. It’s from a real book. The quote is philosophical and talks about metaphysical beliefs. To sum it up, Butler is subverting a common analogy: Gender and sex aren’t the same thing; gender is a cultural construct while sex refers to the biology (XX vs XY). She uses the analogy as a stepping stone to relate to how she personally believes in the importance of gender in determining how society acts. It alludes to the differences in the treatment and expectations between men and women. Of course, the quote is esoteric with it’s exclusionary jargon, but it’s similar to how legal documents and scientific articles are difficult to comprehend just because of the language they use. Don’t let this distract you from the point of the video though. It’s satirizing how liberals expect everyone to be knowledgeable about this topic when the average joe simply doesn’t have the time or motivation to study all the nuances of a complicated topic that’s already so subjective and non-empirical, but to simply amount it to gibberish is to miss some of the nuance. Saying you “know the most advanced physics concepts” in an attempt to delegitimize the quote is missing the point of the satire. It sounds circlejerky and feels like you’re just saying “lib-tard bad, feminazi stupid”
Religion Sucks No, I’m not even on the Right, but if you don’t see that this is clearly making fun of Feminists, the most deluded of people, you’re deluded.
@@givecamichips maybe the assembly line or other factory line? He did say he comes from a small steel town. That's the first thing that comes to mind because I've been working in a factory though. Could just be my... bias? I don't think that's the exact word I'm looking for, but it's close enough.
It was definitely meant to be a factory line. I love how it demonstrates why this kind of philosophy can't sway regular working class people and how intersectional theory is mostly for middle class people. The only people who would be simultaniously educated enough to break through the language barrier and sheltered enough to be convinced by it are collage and university educated people who haven't done a hard day's work in their life.
@@arandomzoomer4837You commit cannibalism every day, just as we all do. We ingest hundreds of our own cells, particularly in the mouth, as well as inhaling the dead skin and hair of others via dust, which then travels to the stomach via mucus drainage from the nose. Therefore, it is not the act of eating each other that is stigmatized, but simply the _magnitude_ and _location_ of the area consumed.
@@Beans-do6wc Genetically Modified Skeptic has a great video called "4 Ways Quacks Manipulate Their Audiences." Peterson is a loonball hack who just happens to have a sane idea periodically.
@@claytonreeves150 In what ways from opinions of your own is what I'm asking. I dont really wanna watch a video about that when i can just see your views on it
whatever man what's wrong with "lock her" even after reading feminist theory ? I still think it is good parody. Hillary deserves prison for what? For being a war criminal, that's the crime I find her most guilty of.
Gustavo Gomez you can probably say that of every person in power here in America. The same with Obama as well as Bush. The difference with Trump is that he is exactly what every critic of American imperialism feared would happen.
It's satire of both sides. It shouldn't take a book for people to realize how specific policies hurt people and it shouldn't take text to make you want to give a shit and just be empathetic.
Bingo. Too bad people instead insist that it's satirizing whichever side they were told to disagree with. Also a shame that there is such a large fraction of our country who seems to simply lack empathy in general...
KY SPORTSMAN I mean the satire is so good that they're mocking feminists who believe this would change a Trump voter's mind, while also mocking Trump supporters.
What was the class about? I mean, the specific things you were learning that day? I really think that it either had something to do with the class, or that he wanted to teach you something about how different circles in the society are seeing the world so differently that they don't even understand each other. What was the class about?
@@lampyrisnoctiluca9904 it was a communications class, and we were briefly covering gender studies, stuff like the male gaze and gender performativity n all that. i think she just thought this vid would be a funny way to introduce butler to us lmao probably wasnt tryna make a grand statement or anything
@Craig Bowers well but most older people of the working class prefer science discussions, and learning about new processes with regards to industry, rather than social theories. I must agree, social theories, just like philosify will only ever appeal to a small sub section of society. That doesn't make it unimportant, but it doesn't directly impact most working class, but rather trickles down through the impact it has on intellectuals. After all, most communists didn't actually read the book, especially when so many were illiterate, but it still had a huge impact through intellectuals.
@@oswaldrabbit1409 Okay, I know that this is satire . . . But didn't you listen to what the "steelworker" said?!?!? He said that 800 pages of social theory made him understand that it *does* have a direct impact on him. He thought he was voting for something that would make everyone's lives better, then decided that if that was actually what he wanted then he needed to vote differently. You may be right about others' interest in social theory, but it's kind of ridiculous to suggest that it doesn't impact the lives of ordinary people.
I've worked in the coal mines all my life. Thinking that the coal I was mining would be used to run steel mills and power plants. It wasn't until I've seen the Vagina Monologues that I started to question everything I've worked for all my life. Now I know that all that coal was really fueling the hell of Patriarchy. On a rainy morning last November, I quit my job, bought my very own solar panel, set her up in my yard and named her Gloria. My life has completely turned around that day.
And of course, things the white males have developed for others, like literacy, government, the banning of cousin marriages to prevent genetic defects and lowered IQ, freedom from kings and tyrants, and a system of medicine that REALLY works based on finding the REAL causes of disease (thanks, Louis Pasteur), is to be swept under the rug and not considered in the accounting...
When you want to know what satire mocks, look at the pun. The pun is "if only I had known that". What it's mocking is not feminism or Trumpists. In this example, it's mocking the particular idea that feminists have that Trumpists care about their point of view to the point of flipping their vote. It mocks the idea of "if only Trumpists understood intersectionalism they would vote differently" when it doesn't matter. The understanding of their ideas would not have shifted any Trump voter, not many at least. More generally, it's mocking people who are completely detached from what average voters care about or even cares to listen to. Everyone lives in their own bubble, but sometimes that can give you a false view of what others know or care about (this is particularly true with the internet political bubble). It doesn't even matter if said things are relevant or not, or if those people should care or not. They just don't. That goes beyond feminism or Trumpists, they're just examples that work really well.
@@samanthacino I think the meme is conservatives fear the downfall of the patriarchy and believe there is a feminization of men happening (which is literally just people addressing toxic masculinity and expression). I see how in reference to Contra this may have come off bad, different social groups and whatnot. Natalie is wonderful and I will never act to disrespect her or any other LGBTQIA+ women who experience discrimination. We all have to work together in this.
@Thot Police Dude, what are you talking about? Of course you don’t have to be conservative to believe that but it’s a conservative belief. I can say that I support feminism and still have time to care for myself. Unless you think is a childish game about boys vs girls, why do you not want to support human rights and liberties that women deserve but face challenges in achieving? There are black and brown men who love their mothers and recognize the struggles they had to face in a toxic household. The idea of being a man shouldn’t be a burden, you are doing it to yourself for no reason. If you can’t understand this, that’s on you boo. I’m not a victim because I’m a man, but we are all victims to the patriarchy and other forms of oppression. Again we all have to work together in this, and I hope you don’t harm anyone with those toxic beliefs, I know how it feels to do that so don’t make that mistake.
@Thot Police The fuck are you talking about? This isn't a zero-sum game, and you are bringing up things that I have never even argued for. First, Men are not oppressed for being men, at most men feel butthurt when they realize how toxic their actions are to those around them and blame women for their own mistakes. "The power of any given race" are you actually arguing that race is biological? It has been proven to be a social construct so you are wrong there. And who is elevating themselves at the expense of men? Who are these women you speak of? It's so vague as to what you are trying to say. I have no fear because there is no reason to. Good luck with your tinfoil hat buddy.
Everyone’s arguing about whether this satirizes the left or the right, but no one’s stopped to consider whether it’s satirizing English majors.
Thank you, finally someone who understands the true meaning! He was using all this unusual words that definitely aren’t in anyone’s vocabulary no matter what political party you are apart of. Felt like someone intentionally using as many words as possible to reach the word requirement.
I think this applies to humanities majors in general lol
Are you stupid. You’re seriously unread if you believe those aren’t words used in feminist literature. Like it’s cool you didn’t know, but you should. those are actual quotes. The only word I had never heard before was “androcratic”
@@Bankable2790 Only feminists use those words
1Peasant and they are academics and write “academic research” using those words, which infiltrate into society as other leftist gain position at “woke” corporations quote those same academics. Every word you’ve heard from the left was coined by an academic
this guy swung the vote in Pennsylvania
He got the dead people voting
@@bobpro583 support trump or not, quit spreading this misinformation around. You're doing more damage than good.
@@hybridmems wth are you talking about, when i was alive, i was a republican, but while dead i heard this guy, and voted for Biden
@@fencino so you are dead ?
@@fencino haha you are hilarious. Shows that you're as intelligent as our current president.
Where was this man yesterday?
He stayed home.
I think Trump knew he was too powerful and took him out after he lost Pennsylvania in 2020
Probably attending another poetry slam and lost track of the time. Those things are addictive.
At the polls voting for Harris, surrounded by 30 latino men voting for Trump
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One of the most underappreciated Onion skits. Mainly because nobody understands the joke. The joke isn't that Republicans are stupid monkeys that can't read. The joke isn't that feminism bad. The joke is at the expense of those who only have a purely academic understanding of systemic issues. The joke is that no average person would ever be converted by such complex and irregular language regardless of how correct it might be. And the joke is made funnier by the fact that Trump voters are usually considered "simple". They tend to have very straight forward and simple issues with society, so it's totally ridiculous to think that they would ever be convinced by such a verbose description of any of these issues.
Very observant
@@sertgy. You can't change average joe's opinion by speaking like a nerd. They want a clear explanation.
Quite the exquisite response
It's sad how hard it is for people to get this very simple joke.
@@sertgy.
"If you need a job and want to keep more of your cheque, vote for me!"
Versus
"Either vote for me or be a complicit individual to the culture of systemic institutions!"
I get why it’s called “The Onion”
This comedy has layers
Just like ogres!
@@张桓瑜 Ha _haaaaaa!_
Why not "The Cake". Cakes have layers.
....oooooooohhhh, well now I just feel silly
Joe G not all cakes
I can't stop being left speechless by the quality of actors Onion keeps using in their clips.
I like your name. It has pretty letters
Agreed, I wonder how many takes is needed on average to get one of these videos done.
He almost...almost breaks character at 2:00
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I would PAY to see this guy and his buddies discuss gender-fluid non-binary poetry slam “on the line” XD
I would commit murder in the white house to see this guy and his buddies discuss gender-fluid non-binary poetry slam "on the line"
@That One I don't know what you mean
@That One 🧐
TheViperFan C’mon man, you know the thing!
@@stormjet814 Im Joe biden and i forgot this message.
The most unbelievable things about this video is a steel worker actually having a job in Pennsylvania.
Trump got his job back for him lol 😂
@@Timeward76 Over 200,000 jobs were offshored under Trump
@@Timeward76 huh?
@@Timeward76 PA person here, no he didn't.
@@emminet I'm just continuing with the joke of the video, given trump's promise of "bringing jobs back to america". Didn't think it'd be so obtuse.
Everyone's so focused on pinning down who's being poked at here, but that's not the point. It's funny because of the juxtaposition and the unlikely scenario.
You could then argue that this is making fun of how leftist theory doesn't work, as it often is too wordy to actually hit its target audience (in this case, those that lean right)? So the video is basically saying that leftist theory doesn't work, and needs a change. The video can basically be called a critisism of that. That's what I believe, anyways.
The Onion videos _do_ tend to have a message behind them, even if hidden in several layers (heh) of comedy or absurdity.
It's about the idiocy of leftist theory and rhetoric. Those who already believe in equality only read these things to reaffirm their beliefs, meanwhile, conservatives will put their fingers in their ears rather than listen to it.
@@asherujudo7383 Quite literally no. Again, it pokes some fun at the academic, enlightened, relatively wealthy white men who are suddenly big leftist philosophers, but besides that LITERALLY the joke, VERY EXPLICITLY is that if conservatives read a book or two maybe they would realise that their worldview is based on pure emotional reaction and gut feelings.
@@asherujudo7383 to quote the big "intellectual" Ben Shapiro says, conservativism is literally "feelings over facts"
@ Nah, you're not detecting the sarcasm. It's so obvious the Onion is fucking with leftists who genuinely think that they can change conservatives minds. It's depicting a highly unlikely and thus hilarious scenario of a conservative whose mind changed due to leftist rhetoric. It's sad thing, but it's impossible to change their minds. They can only be coerced but never convinced. It'd be easier to teach a five year old rocket science.
When me and the boys just casually attend a gender-fluid non-binary poetry slam at Swarthmore
Why Swat lol
When me and the pals, comrades, folks, friends
Lina *individuals, toasterites, gaypeepees, ultra-straights, woman-men-women...*
Swarthmore is a great place to see those poetry slams, but the closest steel town is Reading an hour and change away. That's dedication right there. Props to this man
Lol same its always e talk about on the line
The Onion used to be satirical. If they're not careful they're going to accidentally win next year's Pulitzer Prize...
😂😂😂, I bet few people got your joke
@@unlockwithjsr I sure didn't
@@battlemaster4208 the pulitzer is an award for good journalism
@@unlockwithjsr Who among people who know what the Pulitzer is would not get that joke?
I was just about to comment something like this.
Welcome back y'all
Thanks it’s good (?) to be here
hi chat
@@breadifies2800 are we cooked?
Picturing this man and a bunch of his work buddies from the mill at a “gender-fluid non-binary poetry slam” is just gold 😂
@@littlefreb okay calm down-
@@notreallysurehonestly how about you get some humor instead?😂
@@littlefreb or you could just control your attitude man..
@@littlefreb who hurt you?
@Lil smackaroo what the fuck is wrong with you guys are you okay-
I like how this is basically making fun of everything at the same time
Eightosaurus Spelunk Pacifistic Centrism!
Nah it’s aimed pretty squarely at the inefficacy of bourgeois academic radicalism
Genius!
Ganga Din I’d say it’s two levels deep, it’s making fun of the strawmen the trump folks have made up of what the left is. Do you honestly believe most Democrats talk like this? Because if so, you’re the brunt of stage two of the joke.
Ganga Din and there it is. It’s beautiful in a way.
Skit makes fun of both sides, your response:
“lol look how good they made fun of those other guys hyuk hyuk”.
It’s still working on the mentally deficient literally YEARS later, and I love it
Onion: The only fake news source you can trust!
Honestly having English as my third language, frequently I face comments such as yours and never really get it why you people call it fake news. Sad to say the least.
The Learner It’s because The Onion is actually fake. It’s all satire. Nothing the onion actually posts is real.
For example, this video is a paid actor reading from a script.
@@OclaxianEmpire The Onion is a real and reliable source of news. Anyone saying otherwise is misinformed and just plain wrong.
@Free Speech get back in the basement, no one wants to hear you.
Huh. That’s a really great comment.
This man's performance is unbelievably flawless. If 6 year old, 2 minute UA-cam videos by parody news sites could be nominated for Oscars, I'd hope this would be at the top of the list.
You should look up Kids in the Hall - Social Justice Art Class all the way back from the 90s. Feels just as current.
It's not flawless. He mispronounces several words, unfortunately.
It is good. But he did not cry.
YT should have its own acting awards, The Tubies.
@@jamiedorsey4167 KITH is timelessly brilliant.
So many layers to this, it's like an onion. Wait...
or a cake
LAYERS! ONIONS. HAVE. LAYERS. OGRES! HAVE LAYERS.
I actually laughed out loud at this.
Bozokdraaf EEEEverey body loves cakes :D
somerandomdude3366 I HATE ONIONS THEYVE GOT LAYERS LAAYERS
The fact that he is from Pennsylvania makes this even better in 2020
Oh. my. god. LOLL
They should have ended it with a line like “well now that I understand I’m privileged, I’ll have a new attitude at the unemployment office in Pittsburg Monday.” Hahahaha. We’re all fucked
@@deepinmind83 Meh we're all gonna die someday Biden just makes it not imminent
@@lucient.m.8453 nobody’s life changes when a president got elected other than the other candidate you voted for
@@jotarokujo4787 I mean Trump's life changed when he got kicked out of the oval office
I love that Judith Butler quote. It's such dry, dense, academic writing, and this man just strode right through it without flinching.
Judith Butler is famous, even in academia, for her purposely obscure writing. See this quote:
“The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power.”
@@randomperson2078 If you think this is though - Try Donna Haraway. She's outright enigmatic. Sometimes I wonder if Queer theory isn't science but more of an art form that isn't supposed to be understood.
@@krautreport202 it never was science.
@@krautreport202
If they replaced those theorists with just one of Larry Kramer’s books, it would be much more respectable. Out of curiosity, how did you come into contact with Haraway and Butler?
@@randomperson2078 It's like she had to prove that at the end of the day she was still as smart as the STEM lords
It's satirizing the disconnect between academics in the humanities and culture studies and typical people.
Why are so few people getting this 😭
People really like to dissect this stuff but I’m pretty sure a couple folks got stoned and thought “wouldn’t it be funny if a regular ass factory worker got totally converted after binge reading some feminist literature?”
doesn't matter. if you express genuine commentary, which good comedy like this does, then you automatically carry genuine observations. Genuine observations spark useful discussion,
@@fnsdjkovnsdkvn not on the internet they don’t
Well, yeah, but why is it funny? I think the point is that the academic community is so insular and so full of jargon that the only people who understand it are those who already agree with them. Also I think it's poking fun at the idea that someone who chanted "lock her up" would be very much concerned with how the system oppresses women.
@@Hakajin Recently I started reading some academic authors (mainly Judith Butler) and at first I though ''how hard would it be to understand?'' and holy shit I had to google the definition of around 20 words in the first 10 pages. There is virtually no way for someone without previous knowledge of queer feminist theory to understand a single page of Butler's ideas.
@@Hakajin It's funny, because it's absurd. A diehard trump supporter from a coal area wouldn't start reading this kind of literature and suddenly start reflecting on his position in society.
When I can't tell if the onion is making fun of feminist, trump voters, or both its a good vid
@@J_1791 Hint,
They're making fun of both.
@@J_1791 lol all that critique he said is legitimate though - and if you read 800 pages of theory you'd realize the feminists have good critiques of the subtle ways gender roles play into our everyday interactions.
But also, liberals are stupid for trying to make that shit the center of their ideology when everyday Americans are just trying to do their jobs and pay their fucking bills.
Both. It's making fun of both.
It's not both. If you were laughing at the expense of Trump voters during this video then you're just projecting.
Unless you think that just the fact that this guy voted for Trump is a hilarious joke, or take the mentioning of a steel mill to be some brutal burn on those idiot Trump voters...
@@1Peasant Gheeze, you don't gotta take it personal lol.
Look man, part of the absurdist humor in this clip comes from the notion that a trump supporter would ever pick up a book on feminist theory.
Honestly, boiling it down to just "feminism dumb lol" is an insult to the onion writers. They're far more clever than that. They know how to poke fun at everyone all at once. And no, it's not about sick burns, it's not about being mean. It's about pointing out funny contradictions in our society.
@@SJNaka101 Well said.
This is like the ascended version of satire, where everyone and no one is satirized at the same time
Schrodinger's Satire
You know its the good stuff when even the people that are offended cant place why.
Maybe it’s a satirizing how some people try to use rather abstract, academic language to try to appeal to people who have neither the education nor the inclination to understand it. It may be profound, but it’s as good as German without spending tens of thousands of dollars to understand it. I myself studied some sociology in school, but have no idea what that last line was about. I’d have to have read the book to even understand the concepts mentioned, because they’re either rather unique to that thinker or because rather esoteric
@@mc1s238 thats what Ive been thinking
It's anti Trump but mocks how people write shit to Conservatives.
No wonder nobody converted with all these fucking obtuse terms hahahaha
The Onion really just attacked the left, the right, and English majors in one video.
😂 yeah
It's definitely not ENGLISH majors. Being that isn't about fancy words, at all. It's about understanding literature, most of which is written in the common language of the time. It's just when you're talking about Shakespeare and such, it's words from hundreds of years ago so they are different from current common words.
@@marshwetland3808 ok english major
@@bath_foam4576 Ah, so that's how illiterates attempt insults. Tx for the update!
@@marshwetland3808 you're welcome bestie
This is peak onion. Simultaneously attacking everyone, and no one.
They were just making fun of liberals
@@richvee214 They were making fun of elitism. Not saying the ideas of feminist theory was wrong, more to the condescending tone liberals have towards Trump voters in assuming they're just uneducated, ignorant, fools and that if they simply read the right stuff, they wouldn't think like they do. The Onion is generally more left-wing when it comes to their satire, but an important thing to note is that leftist don't consider Liberalism to be left-leaning, rather centre-right. An oldie but still relevant to how liberalism is viewed by the Left ua-cam.com/video/3cdqQ2BdgOA/v-deo.html
It’s attacking liberals...even an idiot can see that.
@@justinb864 you sound like you are uttering the gibberish the guy is reading from the book. Would you like 1000 more words to say absolutely nothing?
@@Creshex8 Dude, he used really simple language. It's really not difficult to understand
Next at 11:
"Oil Tycoon combats Climate Change after seeing Sad pictures of Polar Bears"
How about Greenpeace convinces CEO to quit his job and give them all of his money by ambushing him at the mall?
i swear the polar bears keep dying off every few years and somehow make the numbers back to do it again. but i could see them doing it out of spite or something. i still remember my grandfather's story of when a polar bear went miles just to beat up the helicopter they flew over him in, without even bothering with a single person in that camp
@@usul573 it's funny because the founder of Greenpeace quit then exposed them lol
@@dragonjo7550 polar bears r afraid of helis though
@@Mo__Joe not this one. this one was angry at helis
Maybe the real satire was the friends we made along the way
*walks off into the sunset hand in hand*
Maybe the real friendship is knowledge
Hahahaha, what friends?
Friends with benefits often share more than benefits.
The real satire was inside you all along.
Who else got recommended this today?
😭lmao
I did
i did ☠
you joke but a guy in a community college sociology class i took was literally this exact man. he was like 65 and a vietnam vet and the entire semester, that man’s mind was constantly being blown by our assigned readings on intersectional feminism, systemic racism, etc. his enthusiasm was unparalleled
Based
I enjoy reading comedy too.
@@Astricozy savage, brutal, absolute destruction
@@observeoutofthebox7806 Why are you being a hype man for a mediocre youtube comment bro?
@@Thebuzzki11er what bro ?
I can see buzzfeed posting the same video, just unironically
Except good luck finding a guy to play the part of the man and say it unironically. He wouldn't be a middle aged man who is clearly un-privileged and looks like he has lived a hard life, the best they could do to fill the part would be a shrill whiny voiced low testosterone 20-something gender ambiguous man with purple dyed hair.
More like I can see buzzfeed claiming it as one of their videos!! 😆
Yeah but its also critizing trump supporters. I guess you are just a one sided, simple minded, anti-feminest and therefore anti-left and therefore conservative fuck wit.
Imo it is critizing partisanship on both sides. The joke is that you would never see this happen because X side (in this case trumples) would never switch over. Just because it listed relatively far left social believes doesn't mean it is critizing the believes. They could be for sure but also couldn't. Onion News is pretty bipartisan in its parodies but who really fucking knows.
@@medexamtoolscom definitely
Damn, we really live in a society 😩
96 likes, that’s like what butt pillows?
What an astute observation
It really makes you think...
We live in a little barbecue
6969 Likes lez go
My 70 year old white cishet blue collar dad is an unapologetic self-educated socialist. To me this is just a normal chat over the breakfast table lol
You're never tool old to wash your brain!
Based dad
What a good dad
my 70 year old dad and I discuss quantum physics and game theory while watching chess tournaments
@@kebabmarley2505while watching rick and morty and discussing our socio economic status
onion are you biased?
Onion: yes
To who?
Onion: yes
To whom
@@glassesthegreat6566 ok but did you know that they removed "whom" from the standard Grammar textbooks a few years ago because it isn't being used anymore?!? Just as I was finally getting the hang of that one! 😒
Emily Marie That is tragic...our dictionaries are being dumbed down. 😥🤧😐
@@j.h.6633 No, it's just language evolving as it always does.
GlassesTheGreat you can use both
“Do you know who REALLY tells it like it is?
Judith Butler.”
Best joke made in a decade.
With the post-its in the text!!!! 💀☠️💀
Based
@@mangonel Hitler was a politician.
@@mangonel she is a political philosopher, so she informs the politicians who back her
The expression on his face when he looks up after reading the Judith Butler quote always kills me
it's great xD
Yeah it’s hysterical
1:51
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣... The Humble mic drop killed me...
lol
Who got this recommended to them right after the election results? 😂
I have no clue why but the idea of older steel working men attending queer slam poetry nights and talking gender studies at work is a hilarious image in my head
I think it's because it has the earnestness of outsiders who have found their place juxtaposed with the joy of something edgy like a poetry slam, and the fact that a guy like him would never, ever, ever, ever be able to understand what I just said. And all that ironically placed with him being one of them. Absurdism at its best. And layers of the onion.
@@marshwetland3808 Or perhaps he's wondering why someone would employ a man before a woman competing at 75% his wage?
Uhh because it's totally ridiculous? The only people who obsess about that stuff are highly emotional and fragile, the complete opposite of older working class men
@@TheSundayShooter if i take away the wage gap, would it hurt?
@@handlethesenutz It would be extremely disprofitable
This is making fun of everyone at the same time, without making fun of anyone, talking absolute bullshit while dropping truth bombs all over. This messes with my head
Hell yeah, brother.
It seems, to me, that it's, just, making fun, of the idea, that, if everyone was given this stuff, to read, they would change their minds, to what progressives think is right, without any, of their preconceived bias, acting, up
(I'm a progressive, but I'm not gonna pretend, that I'm incapable, of being biased)
@@sevencubed_ I think it's more making fun of the fact that some progressives believe that steel factory workers in the Midwest would care enough about this kind of thing. Whilst also making it almost indecipherable to most 'uneducated' people
My god man, that's far too many commas.
@@sevencubed_ I think, it’s, more making, fun, of the, fact, that if, conservatives, were to, actually, read 800 pages, of, this, sort of, thing, they would, probably, change their, opinion, but no, conservative from a rural, background, would ever, actually, do that
Okay, so I laughed at this and thought it was funny, but I was also thinking about this skit days later, so I think it's got a few deeper messages as well if you peel back the layers. For example, it doesn't matter how accurate or inaccurate liberal intellectualism is; it's not going to change the minds of rural blue collar workers who feel that Trump is the first president to speak to them on their level and actually listen to them. I think there is value in pursuits of manual/skilled labor vs. academia, but both sides are speaking a completely different language and this leads to an even bigger disconnect which is why we're so polarized rn.
I can raise your thought there. There is no party for either sides is the real problem. Neither the leftist intellectual thought which is very well established poses great questions and the labor workers who are out there with day to day problems. Both parties have among each other different sets of corporations they are responsible for and pander to these classes and minorities only as a veil, promising incremental change that won’t affect mosts life overall as they are ultimately trying to just keep the system from changing.
Again because these parties are ultimately servants to the winners of the system. And if things change winners might not stay winners. I am not saying this in an evil conspiracy way but more this is how things landed apparently.
Under normal circumstances leftist intellligencia and the laborers should be on the same side against those that would undermine the vox populi but the wedge between them has grown so large in America.
Politicians are paid by sponsors to win elections and enact changes. They care about votes only as much as they need to. This is why swing states are so powerful - they can and will vote in whomever they feel like. I personally don't understand the idea of voters belonging to a party - if you'll always vote for them, neither they nor their rivals have any reason to do anything for you.
And it isnt even just limited to white collar to blue collar. We have developed into highly specialized society. We have to train for years (college or apprenticeship or school of hard knocks) to even reach entry level in just about any field. People devote their lives in pursuit of their specialization, going further and further down the rabbit holes and further away from generalization. Two people with similar training experiences but in different fields might miss each other in conversation like two ships in the night just as much as white collar and blue collar people having a conversation.
We are highly specialized and speak mostly to people pursuing the same specialization, we take knowledge of our specialization as granted general knowledge, and then we talk passed each other, down playing skills the other person has because they are not skilled in our specialization where we are comfortable.
You got it.
US is polarized because they have a 2 party system. :-)
The rest of the world has more like 5-10 parties to pick and choose from.
In comparison to the US, the politicians of other countries don't waste nearly as much time to attack 'the other side'. Instead they promote their own ideas.
After the elections the parties have to work together and create coalitions to reach the +50% to build a functioning goverment.
P.S: 1/8th of the population has an IQ of
A while back a kid played this for our social studies teacher and the teacher thought it was real 😂
Legendary kid
Aint no way 😂 ima try that
I don't believe you, or that you interpreted what happened correctly, unless you go to a religious school.
This actor and the wardrobe department deserve an Emmy. Everything about him is so realistic, which makes the satire even better. The Carhartt jacket, slick back hair, the way he talks, even the way he wears his glasses. It’s literally perfect.
Yeah, it's really, really good. Very believable, not corny, which is great.
Where is his Cumins Diesel baseball cap..... And cigarette in his right hand....
God I know right? Could not have been more accurate
except the carhartt is so new the collar isnt even folded, nor is the pocket zipped lol
@@followtheciaence those are his church Carhartts
I see it as a reality check. While academics take themselves very seriously when they think of and write these things, given the degree to which they actually might have an effect on the average working person, they might as well be speaking a different language.
Yeah, something we the left have to act for, understand that why trump won was bc we were like aliens to the general population, then again, It seems like the left is becoming more intelligible
Academics usually are writing for other academics. It’s like expecting a chem professor to write for the 8th grade earth science class to understand.
@@catrielmarignaclionti4518 Guess again.
@@catrielmarignaclionti4518 you lefties just love patting yourselves in the back for spewing nonsense, Dunning Kruger effect in full force
@@Abadon852456 bwhahaah ikr? They really take a lot of pride knowing they are so educated about non-binary fluid people and the alphabet club.
The reality has surpassed its satire.
yes and thats why comments and videos like this are scary
Really not
not sure if I agree, but cool phrase in any case.
This like had 666 like when I got here.
*It is a sign.*
Still better than hillary...the system works...
This guy really impresses me! There's no way I could read 800 pages of Judith Butler!
But it will pave the way to being invited to a gender fluid non-binary poetry slam event at some college. Totally worth it! 😂
@@JacoWium I mean as long as there's free beer I'd even go to a bondage sado maso gay party in the dark.
@@creampielover69 But would you be invited? With a name like "le porc," probably not.
@@creampielover69 bruh id kill to go to one of those lmao
Only two people are known to have ACTUALLY read 800 pages of Judith Butler. Both died of severe radiation poisoning.
What's really being parodied is the video format. It's this stupid thing where they sit someone down who used to believe one thing but now believes other thing. They sit them down in some dull set and play serious music with interspersed clips of people who still believe other thing being dumb and bad. The format is being parodied by turning it up to 11, the guy went from these very vague and general pro-trump statements to extremely technical academic feminism. Especially around this time it was extremely easy to see vids like this with former republicans or democrats being super serious about how everyone totally had to switch to stop hillary or trump from blowing up the world or whatever, how their mind was blown after their niece sent them a buzzfeed article on facebook which changed their whole worldview lmao. Incredibly stupid format and this is a brilliant parody of it.
fuck, you're genius
This should be the top comment 🤦♂️
Is that what “NOW THIS” is?
Glad I'm not the only one that thinks this
Good observation!!!!
_"A couple of other guys from work attended [the gender-fluid non-binary poetry slam at Swarthmore] too, and now it's all we talk about on the line."_
-Mike Bridger, former Trump supporter
stolen
@@catrielmarignaclionti4518
Late reply, but no, it wasn't stolen. I literally quoted the video and added quotation marks. Everyone knows where it came from.
Is your pfp the cover of Witches and Wizards?
@@CameloSupeito i have no idea where my pfp is from. I just picked a stylized letter B. Also, i looked up this wizards and witches thing and the letter is a W, so idk why you said that?
@@babbisp1 Each book has a different letter, but i read it years ago and they might change the covers from country to country (in my language both "wizards" and "witches" start with B). Anyways, its a cool B
It’s great being on the line discussing gender fluid with the boys
The funny thing is that I understood the Judith Butler quotes better than I understood the colloquial American English. What does "on the line" mean?
@@omp199 I think it means "on the phone" like a landline cable
@@omp199 "On the line" could refer to being on an assembly line in a factory.
ah yes, the gender fluid
@@mkano7434 Hey Mike, I need five gallons of gender fluid over here!
Wish this wasn’t so relevant
This is exactly how humanities majors talk.
@Joe Sniffs Childen's Hair Biden yup
*In America
No not really. I know plenty of humanities majors and they never talked like that. Not to mention some of them voted for Trump, so...
@@TheGeorgeD13 I'm also talking from personal experience, dude. And most I've known either voted for Bernie or didn't vote at all.
@@laurocoman Well, mine vastly differs from yours.
you know they didn't need to pick sides to make fun of right?
they can just....make fun of both.
and they did.
Or maybe they are in both sides at the same time... somehow.
Bitchslapped oh you mean to have so many layer and meaning at the same time, like, like an onion?
Centricide now!
Cady Jones OHH SHEITT
Just A Clown Go back to Jreg video!!
I need to watch this video a few times a year to remind myself, "This is NOT who you are arguing with online."
@@oldjarhead386 ; Actually your's does, moronic drumpf crotch sniffer!
beautifully said
Wow!! That’s a good point. I need to remind myself of that more often.
💯
Yeah... very fair point
This guy must have amnesia because they we’ve fallen once more…
the way he pronounces "cishet"
my knees
sisset
sissette
is that... not how it's supposed to be pronounced??
I didn’t even know that was a fucking word💀
@@Tocaraca its supposed to be sis-het, not sisset. if that makes sense
"when i attended a gender-fluid non-binary poetry slam" that did it for me!!!!!! LOL
SAME
I really need to see that, that would be amazing
@@ravenwolf3715 Some new perspectives in a cool format like poetry slam
@@sdrawkcab_emanresu hell yeah :3
Where's the sign up sheet
As a Philosophy major who spent much of their time studying feminist philosophy and gender studies, the Judith Butler quote hit hard. Absolute peak satire.
What is it satirizing? I don’t think you know what “satire” means.
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Lmao imagine majoring in philosophy and gender studies
Fuck this I don't have time for 400 replies
I’m just trying to figure out whose time it was that you spent.
@@ascherlafayette8572 you are criticizing someone for trying to learn things. That says a lot about you.
god the fact that this is more relevant now
I read 799 pages and I still believe I made the right choice voting for Donald. Hey, what’s this? Page 800? Might as well re-OH GOD WHY DID I VOTE FOR HIM?!
The forbidden 800th page
Hahhahahhaha
on that page it just reads "men bad"
Have you ever felt like.if the answer section of UA-cam, on phone, is crushing the answers from both sides?
Like if the side borders of the phone were closing with each other?
@@davideb.4290 no?
Guys, stop arguing. I'm a Political Science major with an interest in Political Theory. He's targeting me 😔
Based and logic pilled
Based and unemployed, forced to sell body
You should get a real degree instead of a degree in BS that will have you flipping burgers.
Oh no.... I'm a high school Junior who wants to major in that....
@@MrTheclevercat You should get a degree in letting people do what they want with their lives. No one cares what your opinion on their degree is.
This guy is about to get plagiarized by actual college students.
Me and the enbies organizing a genderqueer-non-binary poetry slam in the middle of a conservative rural rust belt town in Pennsylvania.
And we love you for that ❤
@@celestialhumanoid remember to take ur meds
@@subifyouhatetiktokandreddit234 you're literally a bot like take your skin and bone meds for fuck's sake
@@subifyouhatetiktokandreddit234 ok mr edgy
No
The *wokest* steel worker.
Rondsun steel woker, really.
Would have been more woke if he had the same lesson but still wanted the Destroyer of Libya Hillary “Bringer of Slaves” Clinton to be locked up for her crimes as a capitalist.
This is satire. You understood that, right? It’s mocking this kind of dialogue.
That gave me a good chuckle, thanks
@@seetclear8947
Pretty sure he's just continuing the satire...
If I didn't know the Onion I'd think this was serious
it IS serious.
No its not. It's a joke. It's the Onion.
poes law
Since it's the onion it's 10x more funnier
lmao, nothing about your affirmative action propaganda is serious...
PragerU ad right after this ended. The world has no sense of self, but certainly gets irony.
The Almighty Algorithm doesn't understand irony but is nonetheless an expert at it.
I've lucky stopped being bombarded by those stupid propaganda adds, if I knew what I did to make it stop I would tell everyone.
@@The_Old_Man_Joe: Lots and lots of feedback on ads you dislike, I'm guessing.
Wait, UA-cam has PragerU ads? Now youtube has lost the rest of it‘s remaining credibility
Wait what? The people who said black people had better lives in slavery have youtube ads now?
1:48 his face after reading that line KILLED me
Lol
“Cisetté white men like myself”
Fancy cishet
This guy is a wierdo
Super problematic that he didn't say "person of cishetromasculine identity" instead
That's the least cishet spelling of cishet I've ever seen :D
I say sishè sounds better
"Jesus.." *stares into space* IDK WHY THAT HAD ME DYING THE WAY IT DID
It killed me as well I have no idea why
Same.
@@d.a.5788 It's the pinnacle expression of an existential crisis.
"Gender is not to culture as sex is to nature; gender is also the discursive/cultural means by which 'sexed nature' or a 'natural sex' is produced and established as 'preduscursuve', prior to culture. A politically neutral surface on which culture acts."
*If I had just known that back in November,....*
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Actually, back in November i was thinking those exact thoughts
I have those goddamn lines over and over and it makes no sense to me. Wtf does it mean? I understand some of the most advanced physics theories but I could not make anything of that. It's just gibberish.
@@cryptfire3158 giberish
Yeah, hurts my brain trying to make sense of the words".. the more i crank up the brain power, the more brain damage i recieve
Zzakii18 I find it hard to believe that you “know the most advanced physics concepts” but still cannot make any sense out the quote. The quote isn’t just some gibberish made up for the video. It’s from a real book. The quote is philosophical and talks about metaphysical beliefs. To sum it up, Butler is subverting a common analogy: Gender and sex aren’t the same thing; gender is a cultural construct while sex refers to the biology (XX vs XY). She uses the analogy as a stepping stone to relate to how she personally believes in the importance of gender in determining how society acts. It alludes to the differences in the treatment and expectations between men and women. Of course, the quote is esoteric with it’s exclusionary jargon, but it’s similar to how legal documents and scientific articles are difficult to comprehend just because of the language they use.
Don’t let this distract you from the point of the video though. It’s satirizing how liberals expect everyone to be knowledgeable about this topic when the average joe simply doesn’t have the time or motivation to study all the nuances of a complicated topic that’s already so subjective and non-empirical, but to simply amount it to gibberish is to miss some of the nuance. Saying you “know the most advanced physics concepts” in an attempt to delegitimize the quote is missing the point of the satire. It sounds circlejerky and feels like you’re just saying “lib-tard bad, feminazi stupid”
Woah, 8 years ago and UA-cam Recommendations has brought this back- tragically relevant!
He went on to become gender studies professor at yale
Thanks patriarchy
Somebody give The Onion's caster a raise. The damn actors they get for these bits are always superb
*opens book*
*glasses appear*
Reading glasses. You'll learn for yourself in a few decades.
Yuval Langer So when you begin to read a book glasses magically appear?
@@cacao1312 you cut out the process of fumbling for the eyeglasses and putting them on in editing.
Yuval Langer It’s a joke 🤦🏿♂️
@@cacao1312 But that is how I wear my eyeglasses. I cut it in post production.
Your joking. UA-cam why did you recommend this to me
there is something very crisp and satisfying about this man's voice.
steel-coated vocal chords.
That's just the _patriarchy_ talking...
I took a bite into his vocal chords, and yep, they were crispy.
The one thing that everyone can agree on.... :D
gay
STOP EXPLAINING THE JOKE PEOPLE. LET MOTHER NATURE TAKE ITS COURSE.
k d
Astonishing how each new generation of libtards are too stupid and deluded to understand the onion is making fun of them.
Religion Sucks
No, I’m not even on the Right, but if you don’t see that this is clearly making fun of Feminists, the most deluded of people, you’re deluded.
Religion Sucks
How exactly is it making fun of the right? It being geared to average hard working people?
Stfu
@@michaelb.tysonson3375 none of yall get it. it's the birds.... you believe that they're real at all?? brainwashed zombies you are
What's good is "let Mother Nature take its course" when nobody dies?
"Its now all we talk about on the line" lmao
Yeah, that was my favorite thing he said.
The real question is, did he mean on the line like the phone line, or like online with the Internet?
@@givecamichips maybe the assembly line or other factory line? He did say he comes from a small steel town. That's the first thing that comes to mind because I've been working in a factory though. Could just be my... bias? I don't think that's the exact word I'm looking for, but it's close enough.
It was definitely meant to be a factory line. I love how it demonstrates why this kind of philosophy can't sway regular working class people and how intersectional theory is mostly for middle class people. The only people who would be simultaniously educated enough to break through the language barrier and sheltered enough to be convinced by it are collage and university educated people who haven't done a hard day's work in their life.
@@MrCompassionate01 so you're saying you have to be educated to understand anything other than manual labor?
I agree.
the fact that I called he'd say "Judith Butler" after "calls it like it is" might be the pride of my entire life
Oh my god. This video so deeply changed my perspective. It’s time for society to remove its stigma around cannibalism.
ah yes, the Divine manifesto
@@algumnomeaihehe I mean jeez, think about Eucharists and their symbolism! If anything, eating people is holy.
Yes if you do kill them and they already dead its just going to waist.
Luigi Potter true, we do get told to recycle more
@@arandomzoomer4837You commit cannibalism every day, just as we all do. We ingest hundreds of our own cells, particularly in the mouth, as well as inhaling the dead skin and hair of others via dust, which then travels to the stomach via mucus drainage from the nose.
Therefore, it is not the act of eating each other that is stigmatized, but simply the _magnitude_ and _location_ of the area consumed.
"That's all we talk about on the line now" haha
That destroyed me!!
I long for the sweet release of death.
This is some next level satirical comedy. Too advanced for our understanding.
@Isaac Kamstra I hope not
@@4sstrid what's wrong with that?
@@Beans-do6wc Genetically Modified Skeptic has a great video called "4 Ways Quacks Manipulate Their Audiences." Peterson is a loonball hack who just happens to have a sane idea periodically.
@@claytonreeves150 In what ways from opinions of your own is what I'm asking. I dont really wanna watch a video about that when i can just see your views on it
@@Beans-do6wc That's unfortunate. It means you're not really interested.
I thought this was posted today...
when parody imitates something beyond parody
whatever man what's wrong with "lock her" even after reading feminist theory ? I still think it is good parody. Hillary deserves prison for what? For being a war criminal, that's the crime I find her most guilty of.
Gustavo Gomez you can probably say that of every person in power here in America. The same with Obama as well as Bush. The difference with Trump is that he is exactly what every critic of American imperialism feared would happen.
Gustavo Gomez for
+migol1984 Indeed. Bush, Trump, Obama, Clinton... I say lock them all up!
Thats called satire
So how many of the likes/dislikes are from people who thought it was serious?
critical theory is a joke, no matter how seriosly you look at it
But it *is* serious.
in their defense this is some next level shit
Poe's Law in effect.
Oliver Jarosi damn
Came here for the video...
Shouldn’t have stayed for the comments
Agua414 Amen, brother.
Amen.
Exactly. People *actually* believe that "patriarchy" is a thing in today's society. And, even when it *was* a thing, they believe that it was bad lol
@@StarWarsomania fuck you trump nazi or libtard. Whichever you are!
are you kidding? these are some of best comments ever. EVAR>
Never should have come here!
I've fought mud crabs more fierce than you!
It's satire of both sides. It shouldn't take a book for people to realize how specific policies hurt people and it shouldn't take text to make you want to give a shit and just be empathetic.
Bingo.
Too bad people instead insist that it's satirizing whichever side they were told to disagree with. Also a shame that there is such a large fraction of our country who seems to simply lack empathy in general...
no it isn't
@@sweaty8717"no it isn't"
-doesn't elaborate
Very deep. Cudo's to The Onion for another great bit of satire.
Correctrix Kudo
Cud this, bish.
Is it really satire if you use real feminist talking points? Haha
it's funny to watch a man in that jacket speak the sjw language but i dont really get the message
KY SPORTSMAN I mean the satire is so good that they're mocking feminists who believe this would change a Trump voter's mind, while also mocking Trump supporters.
This is just a standard buzzfeed video
nah. theres no butch lesbian or token black in this video
😂😂😂
It's the "Now This" parody. Now this is also a news source on UA-cam, just look it up
lmao
Too much vocabulary for Buzzfeed
That gender-fluid non-binary poetry slam must have made an impression...
ikr? i gotta start taking my friends to poetry slams
turn my frickin frogs gay, daddy obama
"turn my frickin frogs gay, daddy obama" I'm saying this to all my future lovers.
He got it right in the ass
Water Filter Man i read this right as he said it owo
... gender fluid creates a mess only UV light can detect.
Nice timing
This is hilarious
Your basic comment only got 13 likes because of the checkmark on your name
Smotan does he attack animators he doesnt like? Pretty sure thats why hes hated
Smotan i think he does it for attention. Or to start flame wars.
Smotan did you not read my comment. I said he goes and hates on animators for no reason, I said it could be for attention or to start a flame war
Richard Lange I love you.
When your uncle in Tennessee finishes his online degree
2 years since this has been posted and CNN is still looking for this guy.
Best comment.....
CNN is right wing
@@leosheldon9725 *are you okay?*
Good Ol' Bryan no i wanna die
@@leosheldon9725 aight
average swing voter
what a beautiful, brave WOMAN
that's right
HES A WOMAN
He's a big woman.
😂😂😂
For you
Harris Sid Was getting caught part of your plan?
holy shit this comment made me laugh so hard
i cannot believe my communications professor showed this video to us in class
There's no easier way to effectively say "You're all stupid if you value your beliefs."
@TripleDog Dare yeah lmao although it was more to lighten the class up than actualy teach us about butler
What was the class about? I mean, the specific things you were learning that day? I really think that it either had something to do with the class, or that he wanted to teach you something about how different circles in the society are seeing the world so differently that they don't even understand each other.
What was the class about?
this is why comms is the superior academic discipline. eat my ass sociology
@@lampyrisnoctiluca9904 it was a communications class, and we were briefly covering gender studies, stuff like the male gaze and gender performativity n all that. i think she just thought this vid would be a funny way to introduce butler to us lmao probably wasnt tryna make a grand statement or anything
It just feels off hearing an old man from working class Pennsylvania talking about Intersectional Queer Feminist Theory.
Maybe because it's satire
@@jaydenms2840 Yes I know that. But it still feels just a bit surreal.
That's the point!
@Craig Bowers well but most older people of the working class prefer science discussions, and learning about new processes with regards to industry, rather than social theories.
I must agree, social theories, just like philosify will only ever appeal to a small sub section of society. That doesn't make it unimportant, but it doesn't directly impact most working class, but rather trickles down through the impact it has on intellectuals.
After all, most communists didn't actually read the book, especially when so many were illiterate, but it still had a huge impact through intellectuals.
@@oswaldrabbit1409 Okay, I know that this is satire . . . But didn't you listen to what the "steelworker" said?!?!? He said that 800 pages of social theory made him understand that it *does* have a direct impact on him. He thought he was voting for something that would make everyone's lives better, then decided that if that was actually what he wanted then he needed to vote differently. You may be right about others' interest in social theory, but it's kind of ridiculous to suggest that it doesn't impact the lives of ordinary people.
"...now it's all we talk about on the line..." 🤣
I've worked in the coal mines all my life. Thinking that the coal I was mining would be used to run steel mills and power plants. It wasn't until I've seen the Vagina Monologues that I started to question everything I've worked for all my life. Now I know that all that coal was really fueling the hell of Patriarchy.
On a rainy morning last November, I quit my job, bought my very own solar panel, set her up in my yard and named her Gloria. My life has completely turned around that day.
It will be a long time before you have atoned for vandalizing Mother Earth's lady parts in that mine.
You're an inspiration!
And of course, things the white males have developed for others, like literacy, government, the banning of cousin marriages to prevent genetic defects and lowered IQ, freedom from kings and tyrants, and a system of medicine that REALLY works based on finding the REAL causes of disease (thanks, Louis Pasteur), is to be swept under the rug and not considered in the accounting...
tybofborg Lol
Dr ROLFCOPTER! Stop victimizing yourself
When you want to know what satire mocks, look at the pun. The pun is "if only I had known that". What it's mocking is not feminism or Trumpists. In this example, it's mocking the particular idea that feminists have that Trumpists care about their point of view to the point of flipping their vote. It mocks the idea of "if only Trumpists understood intersectionalism they would vote differently" when it doesn't matter. The understanding of their ideas would not have shifted any Trump voter, not many at least. More generally, it's mocking people who are completely detached from what average voters care about or even cares to listen to. Everyone lives in their own bubble, but sometimes that can give you a false view of what others know or care about (this is particularly true with the internet political bubble). It doesn't even matter if said things are relevant or not, or if those people should care or not. They just don't. That goes beyond feminism or Trumpists, they're just examples that work really well.
I learned something from your comment, cheers.
Yes THANK YOU. Everyone here in the comments section just keeps projecting their opinions on the video and missing all the layers, it’s crazy!
THANK U im so dumb
how is 'if only I had known that' a pun?
That's exactly what I thought! Thank you for putting into words.
me after watching a single contrapoints video
I think that guy has joined the Femboi ranks. We will rise!
@@samanthacino I think the meme is conservatives fear the downfall of the patriarchy and believe there is a feminization of men happening (which is literally just people addressing toxic masculinity and expression). I see how in reference to Contra this may have come off bad, different social groups and whatnot. Natalie is wonderful and I will never act to disrespect her or any other LGBTQIA+ women who experience discrimination. We all have to work together in this.
@Thot Police Dude, what are you talking about? Of course you don’t have to be conservative to believe that but it’s a conservative belief. I can say that I support feminism and still have time to care for myself. Unless you think is a childish game about boys vs girls, why do you not want to support human rights and liberties that women deserve but face challenges in achieving? There are black and brown men who love their mothers and recognize the struggles they had to face in a toxic household. The idea of being a man shouldn’t be a burden, you are doing it to yourself for no reason. If you can’t understand this, that’s on you boo. I’m not a victim because I’m a man, but we are all victims to the patriarchy and other forms of oppression. Again we all have to work together in this, and I hope you don’t harm anyone with those toxic beliefs, I know how it feels to do that so don’t make that mistake.
So you're saying you're an easily brainwashed dupe?
@Thot Police The fuck are you talking about? This isn't a zero-sum game, and you are bringing up things that I have never even argued for. First, Men are not oppressed for being men, at most men feel butthurt when they realize how toxic their actions are to those around them and blame women for their own mistakes. "The power of any given race" are you actually arguing that race is biological? It has been proven to be a social construct so you are wrong there. And who is elevating themselves at the expense of men? Who are these women you speak of? It's so vague as to what you are trying to say. I have no fear because there is no reason to. Good luck with your tinfoil hat buddy.
Has it really been 7 years