Art vs. Wal*Mart
Wal*Mart says it won't carry Green Day's new album 21st Century Breakdown unless they want it edited for language and content. Green Day says Fuck You.
What offends you in art? Any medium -- graphic art, music, films, television, theater, other performance, whatever. I have incredible problems with things like misogyny, pointless vulgarity and violence, anti-gay tirades, fat jokes, that sort of thing. And especially taking advantage of others. I try to use Molly Ivins' words as my guideline:There are two kinds of humor. One kind that makes us chuckle about our foibles and our shared humanity -- like what Garrison Keillor does. The other kind holds people up to public contempt and ridicule -- that's what I do. Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel -- it's vulgar.
What offends you in art? Any medium -- graphic art, music, films, television, theater, other performance, whatever. I have incredible problems with things like misogyny, pointless vulgarity and violence, anti-gay tirades, fat jokes, that sort of thing. And especially taking advantage of others. I try to use Molly Ivins' words as my guideline:There are two kinds of humor. One kind that makes us chuckle about our foibles and our shared humanity -- like what Garrison Keillor does. The other kind holds people up to public contempt and ridicule -- that's what I do. Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel -- it's vulgar.