White men are raging over ‘SNL’s’ white male rage skit -

[CatParty]

White men are raging over 'SNL's' white male rage skit

'Saturday Night Live's' Melissa Villaseñor poked fun at the Oscars nominating a bunch of movies featuring 'White Male Rage' while snubbing female directors.

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Melissa Villaseñor completely skewered the Oscars on Saturday Night Live, taking aim at the fact that, as is so often the case, the Academy is honoring films about angry white dudes while ignoring basically everyone else.

In a segment for “Weekend Update,” Villaseñor enthusiastically declares that she’s ready to win an Oscar for her original songs she wrote for all the nominated movies. Over elevator muzak, she shares her songs. The first one, for the controversial sympathetic take on Joker, basically just describes the plot of the movie before ending with an apt observation:
“But the thing that this movie is really about is white male rage, white male rage, white male rage!”

It’s the set up for the real joke: Every single song Villaseñor sings about these Oscar-nominated movies follows the same tune and describes the films as being about white male rage. The Irishman, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Jojo Rabbit, 1917, and even Toy Story 4 all get the musical treatment in the skit, though it’s not necessarily the films themselves she’s poking fun at, it’s the fact that there’s a common theme running through all of the movies nominated for awards this year. It’s something many have found particularly frustrating in a year where great films by and about women have been collectively snubbed, something she points out in a line about Little Women and writer/director Greta Gerwig.

The skit struck a chord with people online, and it wasn’t long before #WhiteMaleRage became a hot topic on Twitter. And in a twist that shocked literally no one, white males (#notallwhitemales) got pretty ragey over it.

“Bold move SNL, singing about ‘white male rage,'” TheQuartering tweeted. “I am sure that will bring back all the ratings you’ve been losing to people who are sick of that kind of bullshit.”

And some really took the whole thing as an attack on Joker rather than, again, just pointing out that white men getting angry seems to be the only theme predominately white male Academy voters want to get behind.


But despite all the dudes getting mad about a comedy show, most of the comments in the trending tag have been an acknowledgement of how timely and hilarious Villaseñor’s tunes are.

“My thanks to Melissa Villaseñor for the new ringtone,” tweeted Charlotte Clymer. “It’s an instant classic.”


And plenty found the backlash to be just as enjoyable as the skit itself.

“Nothing validates the #WhiteMaleRage hashtag more than a bunch of white dudes getting Mad Online that a Latina woman made fun of JOKER on a comedy show,” Rob Sheridan pointed out.


So don’t bother tuning in for the Oscars this year, we already know exactly what’s going to win–it’s white male rage!

 

[JohnDoe]

Seems more like Latina SJW REEEEE than anything else.

 

[Splendid]

People like Joker because it's both a mass market movie and a legitimate piece of art, which is something we've had far too little of during the Marvel era.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Nothing says how calm and collected you are than creating a song and trying to stir up shit because your shitty movies weren't received for the fact they had pussies in front and behind the cameras.

 

[Amya Spedonym]

“Nothing validates the #WhiteMaleRage hashtag more than a bunch of white dudes getting Mad Online that a Latina woman made fun of JOKER on a comedy show,” Rob Sheridan pointed out.

It's basically hunting over bait. It's hardly sporting.

 

[Ruin]

A significant chunk of Joker's plot is sbout out of touch media elites who think the suffering of poor people is funny so this is especially ironic.

These frizzy haired hatchet faced shrews have zero self awareness.

 

[Stock Image Photographer]

"When we direct unlimited mocking and animosity at white men, they're just supposed to take it! Any kind of response defending themselves just proves how fragile they are!"
"Why yes, I would call that a microaggression if I were talking about literally any other demographic, why do you ask?"

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

I thought Joker was about the failure of social services to take care of ill people who need medical help but can't afford it. And I'm pretty sure the film's antifa-style violent mobs weren't running with the tagline "kill the rich" because they supported the 1%. These people don't have a clue about anything.

 

[NeoGAF Lurker]

Cunts like her is why Joker made over a billion dollars at the box office.

 

[Ruin]

Serious question, why are sjw comedians and "celebrities" always so fucking ugly? There are plenty of extremely attractive black and latino women but whenever there's a hurr durr white guys sketch or article its written/performed by some cock eyed mutant?

 

[Moloko]

White men, direct your (admittedly justified) anger at this particular hispanic cunt and not White women like you usually do..

 

[CatParty]

I thought Joker was about the failure of social services to take care of ill people who need medical help but can't afford it. And I'm pretty sure the film's antifa-style violent mobs weren't running with the tagline "kill the rich" because they supported the 1%. These people don't have a clue about anything.

It’s just a love letter to the New York City issues of the 70’s & 80’s. The mental hospitals closing down, the subway crisis, Bernie goetz, the blackout riot, the Tompkins park riot. All wrapped up in a Scorsese-esque film under a dc comics ip

 

[Spicy Hog]

They are still seething that they couldn't kill the Joker movie.

 

[Dysnomia]

"When we direct unlimited mocking and animosity at white men, they're just supposed to take it! Any kind of response defending themselves just proves how fragile they are!"
"Why yes, I would call that a microaggression if I were talking about literally any other demographic, why do you ask?"

That's why there's nothing more deaf, blind and dumb than #woke.

 

[Jewthulhu]

Imagine looking at a schizophrenic being neglected and shit on by society and saying his problem is just "white male rage."

 

[Hatoful Dandy]

Serious question, why are sjw comedians and "celebrities" always so fucking ugly? There are plenty of extremely attractive black and latino women but whenever there's a hurr durr white guys sketch or article its written/performed by some cock eyed mutant?

There's a particular Roald Dahl image that explains this well...

 

[Jmz_33]

“Melissa Villaseñor, you invited me here just to make fun of me! Your just like the rest of them!”

 

[Ihavetinyweewee]

One, how do some comments on twitter constitute significant outrage? I swear social media has been a boon for the laziest of "journalist".

You can find virtually any random opinion. Not only find it, but parroted...

Two, what "tons of movies" were quality female-led productions? Outside of "Little Women", I don't know of any....

 

[Next Task]

To use their own lingo, this misreading of Joker is ableist, because they completely ignore his painful mental illness and subsequent breakdown in favour of simple 'White Man Bad!' opinions.

That they are so blinded by ideology that it's the only takeaway they have from the movie shows they don't have any critical ability, and all they want is a film that tells them what they want to hear. The reactions I've seen to this have been moderately stated and often just making fun of them for aggressively missing the point of the film, but of course that has to become a Kafka trap of ignoring any non-white, non-male response to keep with their narrative.

I wish it didn't annoy me as much as it does, but they're fundamentalists attempting to rewrite reality to their own skewed perspective, and they're smug about it to boot.

 

[CatParty]

I swear social media has been a boon for the laziest of "journalist".

I left out the 99% of the article that was just twitter links lol