Primrose Road

On Saturday, a post over at Jewlicious criticized Sarah Silverman for her YouTubed comments on the writers' strike, straight from the picket lines. The post was entitled Sarah Silverman is a Moron and the Writers' Strike is Exhibit A.

When I initially commented on the post, I suspected that the writer's anti-Silverman sentiments might actually be veiled anti-union sentiments. After all, it's not like Silverman was waving excrement-on-a-stick at passersby in the video; she actually gave a fairly good explanation of what the WGA strike is all about, and why the writers' demands are "extemely reasonable." But after reading through additional follow-up comments, I realized that perhaps the underlying sentiment/attitude is not anti-union at all; it is -- ::drumroll, fanfare, etc.:: -- anti-Jewish-woman-making-a-living-off-of-publicly-raunchy-comedy. Note the love shown for George Carlin and Lenny Bruce in the follow-up posts. Apparently there's something about Sarah that makes it impossible for her vulgarity to be accepted as irony over there on Jewlicious.

Even her seemingly genuine attempt to explain the writers' strike was dismissed as an egoistic attempt to draw attention to herself. I hate to go this far, but the Jewlicious post was ultimately (and those who know me outside the blogosphere know that I rarely express this sentiment) anti-women. And to see so many young Jewish women buying into that idea ... well, I'll end on that note.