During the Emmy Awards, a comedy sketch featuring the voluptuous Sofia Vergara standing on a rotating pedestal while the CEO of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences spoke about diversity led to much pearl clutching. The bit wasn’t exactly hilarious, but the outrage was pretty entertaining.
We now present, Sofia Vergara….slowly spinning around. GIF! #Emmys #EWEmmys pic.twitter.com/WWY2tyXPRo
— Entertainment Weekly (@EW) August 26, 2014
https://twitter.com/regansbrain/status/504094722110279680
@regansbrain @EW Exactly, I found it degrading. Yeah she plays off her looks a lot (who can blame her, she's gorgeous) but that was OTT.
— Miss T (@Mistyrose78) August 26, 2014
The #Emmys literally objectify Sofia Vergara, a Latina woman. Because that is somehow right. Right? Riiiiight. -_- http://t.co/nyISQpZb9p
— Ruba Ali Al-Hassani (@RubaAlHassani) August 26, 2014
The #Emmys decided to objectify Sofia Vergara during a speech about diversity. http://t.co/MB7sDLfyZ1
— HuffPost Women (@HuffPostWomen) August 26, 2014
Sofia Vergara Was Completely Objectified In A Tone-Deaf Joke on The #Emmys http://t.co/lrqHrYrNsL http://t.co/m22f4Z8QGy
— Jarett Wieselman (@JarettSays) August 26, 2014
The segment was especially traumatic to Huffington Post writer Charles Clymer.
When the crowd wolf-whistled as Sofia Vergara's backside came into view on a fucking spinning pedestal, I felt sick to my stomach. #Emmys
— Charlotte Clymer ?️? (@cmclymer) August 26, 2014
We hope he’s okay.
ThinkProgress required an extended exegesis of the comedy sketch from one of their followers. (You can usually tell how far left a progressive is by measuring how long it takes you to explain a joke to them.)
If the Emmys want to celebrate women, maybe don't put Sofia Vergara on a turntable: http://t.co/4YxZg9u2f8 pic.twitter.com/utWoX4r1Xy
— ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) August 26, 2014
@thinkprogress this is frankly unbelievable. The joke was a bit on the nose for me, but apparently over your head, so I'll explain…
— Drilfrid Sellars ?? (@youngzeegy) August 26, 2014
@thinkprogress if you'd been listening (as you admit you weren't) to what the guy was saying you would have noted sarcastic comments about..
— Drilfrid Sellars ?? (@youngzeegy) August 26, 2014
@thinkprogress shows being successful based only on the quality of the stories they tell etcetera. Juxtaposed with Vergara on the…
— Drilfrid Sellars ?? (@youngzeegy) August 26, 2014
@thinkprogress turntable, the joke should have been obvious. It was mocking the objectification of women. Making it absurdly abject while…
— Drilfrid Sellars ?? (@youngzeegy) August 26, 2014
@thinkprogress at the same time denying that it occurs was an intentional farce, and an essentially pro-feminist one at that. If you call…
— Drilfrid Sellars ?? (@youngzeegy) August 26, 2014
@thinkprogress yourself a feminist, but choose not only to direct your outrage at jokes, but to direct it at pro-feminist jokes, then…
— Drilfrid Sellars ?? (@youngzeegy) August 26, 2014
@thinkprogress sorry, but you've missed the entire fucking point.
— Drilfrid Sellars ?? (@youngzeegy) August 26, 2014
That about covers it.
Plenty of folks were there to point out the utter hypocrisy of the feminist outrage, coming right on the heels of the much celebrated Beyonce performance at the MTV Music Awards.
Dear feminists & pajama boys upset over Sofia Vergara at the #Emmys: Her body, her choice. Suck it, haters.
— CatsPolitics (@CatsPolitics) August 26, 2014
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/504124645642350592
That Sofia Vergara bit just set back Beyoncé's "FEMINISM" signage like 40 years. #Emmys
— Michael Deppisch (@deppisch) August 26, 2014
Shot: https://t.co/QEibUCYGxl
Chaser: https://t.co/3yaqHiSUYD@cmclymer— jon gabriel (@exjon) August 26, 2014
Shot:
Just caught up on #Emmys highlights. Tip: objectifying women is still not funny or endearing. What the fuck was that Sofia Vergara bit? Ugh.
— Charlotte Clymer ?️? (@cmclymer) August 26, 2014
Chaser:
She killed it. Jussayin'. #VMAs #BeyMAs pic.twitter.com/0aGScRcomE
— Charlotte Clymer ?️? (@cmclymer) August 25, 2014
Wake up and smell the cognitive dissonance.
What was Vergara’s reaction to the kerfuffle?
Sofia Vergara blasts critics of 'sexist' #Emmys pedestal: http://t.co/6rJliY7aFr
— Entertainment Weekly (@EW) August 26, 2014
She thinks some people need to “lighten up.”
Probably good advice.
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