Feminism strikes again!
I got a sex change to avoid the wage gap:
http://t.co/Ut0YOwvtjX— Sarah Silverman (@SarahKSilverman) October 8, 2014
Silverman thinks “society owes working women nearly $30 trillion” because sexist wage gap and stuff. So she’s joined forces with the National Women’s Law Center for a campaign to “crowdfund the wage gap.” Naturally, she tapped into her rich comedic talents to help gin up support. This is the result (warning: NSFW):
Glad I'm at work and can't watch the Sarah Silverman wants to be a man bullshit.
— ? Yes All Cops ? (@zeroanaphora) October 8, 2014
Yeah, consider yourself lucky. Because we watched it, and it’s awful.
@SarahKSilverman A female millionaire complaining about the so-called 'wage gap' is funnier than your act.
— M. Amsterdam (@emmdee22) October 8, 2014
@VanityFair @SarahKSilverman How juvenile, VF. (Unfollowed)
— chanceit (@chanceit) October 8, 2014
Sarah’s used to getting major love for garbage like this, but we’re guessing she didn’t plan on pissing off a group of people with which liberals assume they have a free pass:
https://twitter.com/Diana__Barboza/status/519926581285117952
Yeah … Silverman’s video is horrible for several reasons. It’s crass, vulgar, and, honestly, just not funny.
@SarahKSilverman A female millionaire complaining about the so-called 'wage gap' is funnier than your act.
— M. Amsterdam (@emmdee22) October 8, 2014
@VanityFair @SarahKSilverman How juvenile, VF. (Unfollowed)
— chanceit (@chanceit) October 8, 2014
https://twitter.com/BScheller_/status/519930385917313024
But members of the trans community and supporters are offended on another level, and they’re speaking up:
Oh @SarahKSilverman I love you so much. But this video is a knife in my trans heart. Didn't ANYBODY suggest trans people deserve better?
— Jennifer Finney Boylan ? (@JennyBoylan) October 8, 2014
@SarahKSilverman I love you, so what's up with the joke? Trans people are less than to society and you doing this doesn't help.
— Dmitri Arzoomanian (@DmitriArzoo) October 8, 2014
@SarahKSilverman Really, a trans joke? Not appreciated at all. Comedy should punch upwards, not down.
— マーセリン (@marcyjcook) October 8, 2014
@marcyjcook @SarahKSilverman Sadly they managed to dig at both trans women and men. "I'm a woman because vagina!" "male surgery is a laff!"
— Megan McCheesen (@McCheesen) October 8, 2014
I'm disappointed in @SarahKSilverman for cheapening trans health struggles to make an otherwise valid wage gap point: http://t.co/DSzcIEt0xK
— Zack Ford (@ZackFord) October 8, 2014
@SarahKSilverman um you do realize trans people have more trouble finding work than all cis people. Way to punch down. Ugh!
— Julia Quarantine (@Pinkham_Artemis) October 8, 2014
Sarah Silverman made a transphobic ad today http://t.co/FDf1HiWKtW but it's for feminism so I guess it's GREAT or whatever
— K. Joffré (@kjoffre_) October 8, 2014
Guess you missed the whole convo of how transphobic this is RT @MotherJones: Ladies, Let Sarah Silverman Convince You to Get a Sex Change…
— Crafting Change (@crafting_change) October 8, 2014
@SarahKSilverman I appreciate most about you that your caring shines through the shit. But not this time. #translivesmatter Please fix it.
— Gallimaufry⚓?️? (@waiting4thevan) October 8, 2014
@SarahKSilverman Come on. Please stop using trans people as a punchline.
— micr0dikdik.nfo (@h4nnarchy) October 8, 2014
https://twitter.com/robynkanner/status/519936459814739968
@msnbc @SarahKSilverman thanks for supporting her "comedy" about transgender people. You screwed this one up. @MHarrisPerry
— Libby Walters (@loretayoungslks) October 8, 2014
@nwlc @SarahKSilverman Was the idea, ah, screw all those trans people, who cares about them anyway? OR did you just kind of forget we exist?
— Jennifer Finney Boylan ? (@JennyBoylan) October 8, 2014
I don't know what @SarahKSilverman has been thinking lately, but joking about quads on #snl, now trans ppl. Not cool, not funny.
— Mary (@MaryBelle_08) October 8, 2014
@msnbc @nwlc @SarahKSilverman Wow. That was some good factual information in a terribly transphobic and anti-sex-worker context.
— Life Is a Highway (@cindikn) October 8, 2014
https://twitter.com/dreamoforgonon/status/519920237957742592
https://twitter.com/BoiMiddler/status/519920451640766464
https://twitter.com/occupyphoenix/status/519926125716602880
https://twitter.com/Saturn500Jared/status/519928718673063936
https://twitter.com/pansgrrl/status/519921913431621635
https://twitter.com/pansgrrl/status/519924431209369600
https://twitter.com/pansgrrl/status/519927988352475136
and this…THIS is fucking inexcusable. fuck you @SarahKSilverman #TWTransphobia https://t.co/VQudQh712u
— Abstract Daddy (@Camera_Angel) October 8, 2014
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