Our Stupid World

I was listening to the Slate Culture Gabfest for this week in which they debate the merits and demerits of the Jezebel / Daily Show row over (the lack of) women staffers on the show. Regardless of the fairly obvious correct argument here - you can't expect a show to just hire women writers for the sake of diversity considering they are trying to create a highly specific product, BUT there is almost certainly a structural impediment in our American culture which creates more male comedy writers and then rewards them more readily than female writers (and as is brought up, a lot of this structural impediment is called the "Harvard Lampoon") that will be overcome with a little effort and just the passage of time - we need to focus on one thing - the ENTIRE conversation is a completely ludicrous waste of time, and at the very root of it shows JUST how few problems we have in America.

Think about what we're doing here. We're heatedly debating why there aren't more female comedy writers in our society!

I am often one of the first ones to jump all over any argument about race, and maybe it's just because I'm going to Africa in a few weeks, but when we have an oil leak in the ocean, bombs going off in Kampala, and fucking continents of people dying from disease, starvation, brutal physical conflicts, corruption, and general backwards living, why the FUCK are we heatedly debating why there aren't more sarcastic female comedy writers?

America needs some bigger problems and it needs them fast.