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Posted on September 3, 2010 at 12:27 am 0

On Who'll Get Punched on 'Jersey Shore' Tonight?

(not @Betty)

Posted on August 20, 2010 at 1:34 pm 0

On Who'll Get Punched on 'Jersey Shore' Tonight?

Are you retarded?

Posted on August 20, 2010 at 1:33 pm 0

On Who'll Get Punched on 'Jersey Shore' Tonight?

When you load the Awl homepage, the browser line reads: "The Awl - Be less stupid." So okay, good advice. Giving such a maxim as a tagline of course means that the people imploring you to be less stupid are also in a position to help, in this case by filling the intertubes with worthwhile, measured, considered articles of some importance or wit or smarts.

That works, except when The Awl publishes shit like this. Because outside of not understanding the incredibly simple idea that males beating up females in unacceptable, the author also can't wrap his mind around the idea that MTV isn't consistent. Both of those premises are simple enough, so it's even more impressive when the stage upon all of this is set is called the Jersey Shore.

So, to sum up: An author, unable to understand why a woman getting punched by a man is different than a man fighting a man, as differentiated by the network MTV, who does not show footage of the first type of violence after a minor PR dust-up (which is of course the whole goal of the show at all) when it's glimpsed in a promo reel. The author then catalogs the violence in the rest of the show "Jersey Shore", and cherry picked some insensitive internet comments.

Seriously this entire page is one big piece of shit. Go back to Jezebel.

Posted on August 19, 2010 at 10:36 pm 0