Michael Ian Black is a Douchebag

So this is the one and only thing I've ever had to say about this also-ran comedian from the 1980s.

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Michael Ian Black was someone I used to have  a neutral-favorable opinion of.  Then he disappeared from my radar for a long time.

Then while the #MeToo Movement got co-opted/Twitterjacked by white celebrities during the Harvey Weinstein kerfuffle and other prosecutions that followed, once that started to die down, it became safe to be a rape troll again.  I was much too hard on Jim Jeffries in hindsight, which is pretty sick in terms of how low the bar is.

But once it became safe to piss on #MeToo, Michael Ian black couldn't miss his chance to draw some attention to himself by hopping on the bandwagon and coming out against it.  I don't remember/care exactly what he said.  I remember noting it at the time.  I've seen who he is now.

Now not only is Louis CK back on tour, Michelle Wolf is opening for him and Dave Chappelle -- who talks all kinds of shit about a young girl who got kidnapped and raped.  Michelle Wolf has a bunch of #MeToo jokes, as does even Kathleen Madigan.  They all do now.  Comedy was never our friend.  But rape culture is all the way safe and open now.  #MeToo is officially hysterical women persecuting men now.  The portion of the world that I'm willing to participate in gets smaller every day. 

I bring this up because I will never forget realizing Michael Ian Black was still alive when he popped up, a propos of nothing, to piss on #MeToo.  Duly noted.  Another hero heard from. 

I point this out, on the first and last time I will ever talk about this washup, because of the dripping hypocrisy.  He appears to be angling for an MSNBC job.  I'll never vote again, so I don't care what any of these hypocrites do.  But I pay to maintain this blog so that I can have an opinion. 

When I read the book Women Talking, one of the most infuriating things about it was the reviewers going all swoony on August Epp with "not all men!"  I guess it seems that way when you've never dipped below a certain level of comfort, that he's doing a great job.

To me, August Epp, like Michael Ian Black, with his heroic article in The Daily Beast, is disastrous.  With friends like him, we're better off dead.   I can't possibly grade on that hard of a curve.  I'd like to see him lead, follow, or get the fuck out of the way.  I'd like to see the people with no scar tissue at all STFU for a minute and stop talking over me about everything.  I'm old now.  This is not so survivable.

August Epp knows how to read.  August Epp has not only been to England and speaks English and Spanish, knows how to use maps, he's been in prison and understands more about how society works than average, right?  And he sits in that meeting with his male gaze, ogling the women and even the girls, adding not a damned thing of value that can help them.  They don't know what questions to ask, and he offers them fucking gibberish about the Dead Sea.  I wanted to strangle August Epp.  And the unraped women reading that book all wanted to give him cookies for not killing himself or raping anybody.  That's how low the bar is for "not all men" like him and the anti #MeToo Michael Ian Black.