Remember when The Onion used to be funny?
Neither do I. One more of those "local man finds hole in sock" story...
I really don't get that "women in the battered women shelter can't cook dinner" story. I won't dignify that with a link even. It's not just that it's offensive, and not funny, but that I can't even understand why it's supposed to be funny in the first place. What's the joke? Who thought THAT was a good idea?
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The Onion used to be funny every other issue. For poetry that's an unsustainably great batting average - for comedy, though, that's the middle of the standings, not much of a shot at the wild card.
There's usually something to laugh at in any issue-- but it has to come in small doses. I do enjoy their potshots at poetry/poets (and getting Shrub in is a bonus):
Bush Regales Dinner Guests With Impromptu Oratory On Virgil's Minor Works
or others...
Maya Angelou Honored For Courage, Blackness
Nation Afraid To Admit 9-Year-Old Disabled Poet Really Bad
National Poetry Month Raises Awareness Of Poetry Prevention
i believe that is supposed to refer to a "classic" "reason" for a wifebeating--dinner isn't ready on the table when the asshole gets home from work. but you'd have to watch a few hours of *lifetime* to confirm.
I have rarely found the Onion funny, but then I was too straight for the National Lampoon, too. (Showing my age.) It is relatively easy to be a smart-ass.
You can't really argue whether something's funny or not, but it's pretty clear "why it's supposed to be funny in the first place": the shelter coordinator guy is supposed to be supplying these women with a safe haven, but he's just the same as all the men who abused them in the first place. Standard irony.
"Standard irony." But still not funny.
um, yeah, i did not find it funny either. though not because i was offended by it. (i think maybe i wasn't offended *enough* to find it funny. it landed somewhere in that not-outrageous-enough-to-be-ridiculous-and-therefore-hilarious area.)
i was just offering the cliche on which the (unsuccessful) joke relies as an answer to "why its supposed to be funny." a lot of comedy begins with cliches or stereotypes and that *can* be funny when done well.
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