The Onion: Can you take satire *too* far?

That even made me a little angry Greggors... you're not the only one...

http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/let_us_identify_the_faggots_and

 

I love The Onion and usually their gay related stories are hilarious. That article was stupid though, and says in it its not referring to homosexuals.

 

I have enjoyed reading The Onion but I do think they go too far sometimes. It bothers me when they poke fun at people who die. That's going over the top.

 

gah I never liked the Onion in the first place, despite being a satire website, now I despise them.

 

i thought it was brilliant and hilarious. it's clearly lampooning the machismo idiots who actually call people 'faggot'. I'm all for that.

 

Don't see how. I just think it's silly....I just never liked the Onion.

 

eh. dont like it. at all.

 

^ That although it wasn't that funny I don't think it was at all offensive. It was just a fail on humor. It wasn't offensive to anyone but over macho idiots though.

 

it was humourous in a similar way to south park when it depicts people like former vice president gore. It's just raw, rude satire and i love that... Putting such a moronic thought process demonstrating the pack mentality so rife amongst young men into such a (relatively) articulate article just makes me laugh at anyone who actually would call someone a 'faggot' for any of the reasons in that article.

 

I don't think it went too far. It was amusing. It was not offensive to me at all.

 

Time for another dissenting voice. The target, those displaying excessive false masculinity in rather annoying and idiotic manners, was ripe for the picking. The author did not go far enough so as to make the humour clear. Smile out loud funny, but still worth the read.

 

Agreed. However, I usually like my satire as biting and inflammatory as possible so this sort of thing's up my alley. If it doesn't provoke a reaction, it's not doing it's job.

 

I certainly wasn't offended as a member of the LGBT community. But as a card-holding comedian, I thought it was not very funny. It felt like those terrible spoof movies where they fail to actually make fun of the material and end up just spewing it out again, claiming that it 'makes fun of itself'.

Yawn.

 

I can see where some people would be offended. However, I was smiling throughout, and I absolutely hate the word "fag/faggot." If it were to appear on another source, not LGBT-related, then I probably would have felt offended.

 

I didn't think it was funny, but I wasn't really offended. It was nowhere near the usual quality of the onion though. (My favorite editorial was "If I'm crazy, then why are men still dating me?")

 

this is the only worthy satire of 'faggot'

http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/251889

The Onion article is too heavy handed in my mind to count as a satire.

 

i see no satire at all in that...i msut be missing somethign i know us british only have dry wit but... thats jsut seems likea rant against fags....oh god i cant believe i even tryped that word thats how crawling my skin is reading that...

talking abotu attacking fags...oh god typedd it again ...

 

Whats supposed to be funny about it?

 

I agree with most. Not as funny as the Onion usually is, but definitely not offensive, and obviously meant as a joke against macho guys.

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Remember: when "A Modest Proposal" was written, the public was outraged. They all thought that Swift was being totally serious, and they were completely disgusted. And now we look back on that and think the whole thing is hilarious. I'm not saying that this Onion article is nearly as clever or funny or important as that; I'm just saying that it goes into the same category: satire that a lot of people are apparently taking the wrong way.