Marg: Screw You, Carolla.

The best part is that I found this sweet pic on a Men's Hair Style website.

Dear Adam Carolla, 

Hello! I see you've popped out of total obscurity to insult an entire gender in the New York Post. Awesome! 

I'm not sure that you were aware, but there is actually a staggering number of women who are overwhelmingly funnier than you are. Staggering!

For example, just off the top of my head, these women are funnier than you are Adam Carolla: 

Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Julie Louis-Dreyfus, Gillian Jacobs, Sofia Vergara, Chelsie Peretti, Retta, Jane Krakowski, Mindy Kaling, Maya Rudolph, Ellen DeGeneres, Allison Bree, Aubrey Plaza, Zooey Deschanel, Miranda Hart, Paula Pell, Portia DeRossi, Kristin Wiig, Sarah Millican, Jessica Hynes, Lennon Parham, Shappi Khorsandi, Casey Wilson, Ana Gasteyer, Eliza Coupe, Margaret Cho, Carrie Brownstein, Samantha Bee, Kate Beaton, Liz Meriwether, the duo of Garfunkel & Oates, Emily Blunt, Megan Amram, Jenny Slate, Sharon Horgan, Isy Suttie, Anna Goldfarb, Kristen Schaal, Sarah Haskins, Lena Durham, Rose Byrne, Elizabeth Banks, Annie Mumolo, Rashida Jones, Busy Phillips, Cheryl Hines, Melissa McCarthy, Amy Sedaris, and so, so, so many more that I am not going to spend any more time naming because I will be here all damn night. 

In fact, I'm actually finding it harder to think of anyone who isn't funnier than you are, Adam.

I'm sorry you're sad, almost 50, and spending your time on Celebrity Apprentice. I hope your short lived resurgence as a figure we all want to say "fuck off" to is worth it. 


Sincerely, 


Marg Craig


(I'm also funnier than you are, not that it is hard.)

@acuteinsomnia

Marg: Screw You, Daniel Tosh.

I guess this is going to be a recurring feature! Whee! Misogyny!

The Huffington Post's entertainment section brought this gem to my attention - apparently the show Tosh.0 is encouraging its viewers to touch women without their consent, and post the interactions on Youtube. They say:

On a recent episode, Tosh introduced a new segment of the show called "lightly touching women’s stomachs while they’re sitting down." "This is where you sneak up behind women who are sitting and lightly put your hand upon their stomach," Tosh explains. "Make sure she's aware that you are in fact feeling a roll."

Your show isn't funny, Daniel.

Dear Daniel Tosh,

I am not a member of your target audience as I don't have a penis. Also, I have never been interested in watching viral videos 5 days too late. 

So I guess in your world that means that I just don't have a sense of humour - in reality, you're just not actually funny to me in the least.

What is especially (specifically! pointedly!) not funny to me, is the idea that you think it is hilarious to fat shame women AND grope them without their consent.

Insulting, gross, and sexist? Sure! But not funny.

You are using your influence to encourage your audience to touch countless women and make them feel violated. In what universe is it okay to violate another human being? Or to urge your 3.1 million viewers to do the same?

You're obnoxious. 


Sincerely,


Marg Craig.

Marg: Screw You, Aronsohn.

I read this article on The Hollywood Reporter today featuring quotes from Two & a Half Men co-creator Lee Aronsohn. Read it if you like, I'll wait.

The key issue I have with what I read was when the topic of women in television was broached, although apparently praising the likes of Tina Fey, Aronsohn is then quoted as countering with: "But we’re approaching peak vagina on television, the point of labia saturation."

Through my disgust, I've written this short letter.

Based on this picture of Aronsohn, I think we've reached our peak Dickcheese on TV, personally.

Dear Lee Aronsohn,

Are 51% of the sitcoms on TV written by women? No? Do 51% of them star women? Also no?

Okay, so you can shut the hell up about "labia saturation" right now, you misogynistic asshole.

Oh, and thanks so much for boiling down what is really important about a woman - her vagina. That's not objectifying or dehumanising at all!

I hope you crawl into a corner and piss yourself.

Sincerely,

Marg Craig.