Op-Ed: Have you heard this one? Los Angeles can't take a joke (via latimesopinion)
A woman left one of the Westside’s roughly 75,000 blow-dry joints and fell in love with my dog. Mid-coo, she asked, “Did you adopt him?”But with Tasers in her voice, she said, “If you went to a kill-shelter and saw thehundreds of abused puppies in cages desperate for a loving home, you wouldn’t think you’re so funny.
You know, like the woman in the Rustic Canyon dog park who fiercely defended the #MeToo movement when I said, “My dogThere are two quasi-buyable reasons why my L.A. has succumbed to can’t-take-a-joke-ophilia. For one, Hollywood is blamed for every insensitivity known to American life. It promotes violence, decadence, depravity and the demeaning of dogs, not to mention racism, sexism, materialism and pathological sequel-ism.
A second and decidedly ironic factor in our grumpy-opathy is L.A.’s overwhelmingly left-wing politics. We coastal elites feel obligated to deeply empathize with struggling others while still finding life tragic enough to be funny. But since roughly Jan. 20, 2017, we’ve spent so much time watching MSNBC, the funny part has disappeared.
It’s too confusing to joke about; it’s definitely too dangerous. We can’t even make jokes about not being allowed to make jokes.
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