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Originally Posted by BullDog
Ender I'm a lesbian. Are you? I find it quite irritating that you think you can tell me I'm missing the point.
Lesbian stereotypes are damaging. We've spent months trying to discuss that here. This is irritating.
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This is equally irritating for me, because in many respects what you are saying is the entire point of my post.
The satire attempts to highlight the misrepresentations of lesbians in popular contemporary culture. If, again, it was meant as a satire, then it is trying to highlight the fact that those stereotypes still exist and is actually ridiculing their existence.
For example, in Borat, Borat (Cohen, the actor/director, himself is Jewish) says some very anti-semitic things. People claim that it propagates anti-semitism, but that is not the point of the satire. The point is to highlight the continued existance of anti-semitism and, furthermore, to highlight society's hypocrisy; not only because anti-semitism continues to exist, but because so many who laugh at Borat's jokes have likely made anti-semitic comments themselves. It mocks the continued hypocrisy of the populace who continues to perpetuate these misrepresentations and stereotypes.