Anyone who has not seen people getting their essential kicks out of offending white bread suburbanites really needs to get out more. Rap artists do it with what I shall call the enword, and homos do it with the effword, but they are all junior high boys wanting to startle the cute girls into a shocked round of giggling. The rap artist wants to be a bad ass, and the catamite wants an ass that is bad, but it all amounts to the same thing.
Imagine a hipster washed up on a desert island — no scope for irony at all. Imagine Lady Gaga washed up on a desert island — how long do you think those outfits would last? Imagine Miley Cyrus washed up on a desert island — think she would be dancing up and down the beach with that foam finger? No. The whole point is to shock and insult those who don’t know that they are being played. Take that away and the whole game collapses.
Douglas Wilson
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I confess I have no idea what he was saying, his wordsmithiness was just apparently too profound. I did note, with dismay, that DW missed not just one, but two golden opportunities, in his mention of Lady Gaga and Miley Cyrus, to trot out the word “boobs”. Even “jiggling boobs”. This must mark the end of his theological “boobs” period.
“The whole point is to shock and insult those who don’t know that they are being played. Take that away and the whole game collapses.”
Um, Doug, we know how very hard you try to shock and insult and we keep trying to tell you we can’t be played. You’ve washed up on your own desert island with no self awareness and zero sense of irony. And by the way, did you know…… Dude, you have no clothes! Game over.