It's getting harder for satirists to push people's buttons, in a society that is bombarded with stupid media insults, yet is inexplicably litigious and sensitive. Still, the effort to understand written irony defeats some of us. Freshmen continue to tell me that Swift is in favor of eating Irish babies (a reading of "A Modest Proposal" that was not unknown in its own time).
Re: Ouch
Date: 2008-07-09 04:51 pm (UTC)