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WARNING FOR PIC OF TERRIBLE WORDS: This Week's SBS Comedy Article.
🕑 Added 2017-04-28 05:22:40 +0000 UTC This week's article for SBS Comedy involves a long long cane toad metaphor and the phrase "rage-boners". Consider yourselves warned:http://www.sbs.com.au/comedy/article/2017/04/28/humping-things-our-rage-boners-why-we-cant-have-nice-things
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For context, I've been filling in for a friend on a TV show I usually just write jokes for. This involves filtering a heck of a lot of terrible people saying terrible things. It gets to me a bit - gives me the hunted feeling that awful people are everywhere, pouring the creative fire of their bellies into this kind of useless petty stuff.
It's a bipartisan issue, and though SBS is a pretty left leaning audience, I feel like it's something worth saying.
Because my job involves walking the line of what people say and what people don't say, I'm pretty sure that at some point I'll say something that brings this kind of fury wave down on me and have to leave the internet forever. Part of me hopes that happens before people decide that the argument for "punching nazis is fine" extends to a broad category of nazi-Esque people, and slots me in there for a public lynching when I get a joke wrong one day, I figure I'll fight that social urge the only way I can. With mildly dirty jokes about cane toads.
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I find this ... troubling. You may or not be aware of the English singer/songwriter Lily Allen. I like her a lot. She is prone to shout her mouth off on Twitter and that's fine, you say stuff you face the consequences. But I saw the horrible things that were said to her and I really couldn't understand how such things were being said. Fine, engage with the point, debate the issue ... this is all good. But not that level of horrific abuse. Do you receive such stuff? It seems ... very strange to me why people would do that or say such things.
It's pretty bad. I don't tend to get a lot, for whatever reason, but doing the social media for the television it is overwhelmingly awful. Of course, you can get used to it or ignore it, but I think that you shouldn't really have to.
I know this is going to sound odd before I say it, but is the online abuse really that bad? I know (because I've been to their shows) that folks like Ms. Ryan and Ms. Bea get a hefty amount but, as Ms. Ryan says, "... she ran out of fucks to give". As someone who has tried vehemently to only to be supportive and constructive it baffles me that others might not be. How bad is it?
