How sheltered do you have to be to find this offensive? It's mildly offensive at best, however you are all acting like the poster spewed racist insults then told all women to shut up and get in the kitchen. People say significantly worse things about female comics everyday, and acting like this only reinforces the negative stereotypes. All you have accomplished is making us female comics look like we are oversensitive cry babies who cannot take a joke or even a shred of criticism. Way to go ladies, for freaking out over something that doesn't actually matter.
I just really want to point out, from a non bias person just watching the fray, that if you are claiming to be a Portland comic as your platform for credibility, you've already lost. If you were funny, you wouldn't still be a Portland comic.
What peeves me about Portland, is that people you'll have a lot in common with, reject you! It's completely bizarre. You'd think like attracts like, but not in Portland. Like attracts judgement.
Did anyone notice that this is titled "what turns me OFF about Portland"? He didn't say HATE Portland. Watching a someone take a sh*t turns me off... Doesn't mean I don't want to f*** them later, though.
So, yesterday on Marc Maron's podcast, when Ian Karmel said he thinks it's kinda messed up that so many hosts are trying to fuck their talent, how is that any different than what I posted in the I,A.? I'm honestly eager to know what makes these two exact same statements any different when they're shared in a different medium?
Cause, personally I think that expressing your opinion is legit, no matter what it is. I don't mind if the KKK Babykillers for Christ get their booth, because it means the rest of us get ours too.
Portland likes to pick its darlings and celebrate them no matter how bad they suck or how many people can do it better. Popularity comes before talent or hard work.
Who gives a fuck if you're from here or not, the foundations of our country were built upon people coming from elsewhere.. I'm willing to bet that were it sometime in the 1800's this IA would have made a great "crimper/shanghai" man, kidnapping poor non-native fools and sending them to lives of improsonment at sea for a sweet buck like the great Joseph "Bunko" Kelly did. Funny, Bunko wasn't from Portland either...
Here's the right one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHA00QFgBOw…
And all hatred aside, can we please keep scarves out of this? Don't insult a man's neckwear.
Cause, personally I think that expressing your opinion is legit, no matter what it is. I don't mind if the KKK Babykillers for Christ get their booth, because it means the rest of us get ours too.