Stop wasting my time


She kept saying that. But she has no problem wasting other people's time - including the time of every male in the audience, whom she admitted was not the target demographic of her moralistic lecture. This wasn't even entertainment, it was her getting a load of stuff off her chest.

You're wasting my time, Hannah, and when you blame me for your troubles for no other reason than me being a white, straight male (guilt by association, I guess), I lose sympathy for you. So thank you for your fashion advice, but I don't need it. I may be privileged, but that is nothing to be ashamed of. It neither adds guilt nor makes me any less entitled than you. And you being a lesbian from a conservative country with a traumatised past does not make you more entitled - or less guilty, for that matter.

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Yeah, i can relate. i also always check out larry the cable guy's newest work, even though i know i won't like it.

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I hadn't even heard of Hannah Gadsby before. I was coming home from work, and I went to the living room, to join my fiance in whatever she was watching. And this was what she had selected. So we sat and watched it together - I held my tongue, even when Hannah started going crazy. My fiancé forced a laugh when Hannah mentioned something about why some guy couldn't just jerk off into a flower pot if he liked sun flowers that much, but other than that, nothing. I didn't even have to comment, my fiancé thought it just as awkward as I did. But we watched it to the end, and I thought I'd give the thing a chance. I *wanted* to find it funny, but it just... wasn't. And the last half hour Gadsby didn't even try to make it funny.

Oh, and Marie-Therese Walter was not underage when she met Picasso at 17. She was French, they met in Paris, and the age of consent there was 13. Picasso himself came from Spain, where the age of consent was 12. So no matter how you cut it, she was not underage. Even today, she wouldn't have been underage. Yes, the age difference would have raised eye brows then as now, but so what? It takes two to tango, and if you have no legal grounds to make a complaint, all you're doing is moralising. And coming from Gadsby, that makes her a hypocrite. After all, she doesn't particularly like it when someone moralises about *her* sexuality, does she?

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i have. that's why so far i have no interested in checking out her work.

anyway, you bring up a couple of good points, which lessens my interest in her special even more.

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