Word: stupidity
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...right] kind of irony is actually essential to civilization. The ability to doubt oneself is a very important capacity. After the end of stupid irony—if we have actually reached the end—it could lead to leaden earnestness. Or it’s possible to move into a more refined ironic sensibility where we do take ourselves and the world’s threats seriously,” he says. “It’s a civilized capacity to laugh at ourselves in small ways even as we go about big things...
...might not support the equalitarian ideal that women and men have to be equally good at math and science. By conflating the two positions (and really, there are many shades between the basic poles), Rubins succeeds in making “feminism” look self-contradictory and stupid. Which it would be, if feminism were some centrally administered collective—but it isn’t. She’s arguing with several different people at once, and ascribing their arguments to one another. No wonder feminism looks bad in her analysis...
...Stupid: Sportscaster Joe Buck asking Tony Womack if he was hugging his mother during a post-game interview. Womack was hugging his wife after singling in the series-clinching run against St. Louis...
...advice: Don’t go into this movie expecting anything close to a stupendous work of comedic art. This is not a movie from which you’ll be taking quotes, memorizing them and using them way too frequently. However, while it’s a stupid movie, it’s one of the better stupid movies. Some of the punch lines, though far from innovative, are actually successful in eliciting a chuckle, or even, at worst, a loud “ha!” Either way, you will leave the theater with a feeling...
...Would you consider shooting for a new magazine in exchange for creative freedom? A: These magazines should be filled by young people. It would be cynical and stupid for someone of my generation to take those pages...