Things I want to believe are satire

[hummingwolf]

The Prairie Muffin Manifesto, which a bunch of you have already been alerted to by either this Slacktivist post or this one. There are things in the PM Manifesto I can sympathize with, even empathize with--but for more reasons than I am willing to type out this close to bedtime, I really wish I could believe it was someone's idea of a joke.

And linked to by thousands of people before me: Murder without conscience, wherein an anti-abortion-availability blogger writes as if they took an article in The Onion seriously; and this one, a response in which the same blogger seems to indicate a complete inability to comprehend the concept of satire. Annoyingly enough, while a few of the commenters on both posts are funny, most of them are just juvenile--demonstrating that many people, no matter where they stand on the important issues of the day, haven't really matured since they were six years old.

Just now noticed there's a third post by the "The Onion article is totally like how pro-choice people are!" guy: College Ejumacated. Honestly, a big part of me believes that that blog is satire (and pretty good, too). But another big part of me remembers that there are people who genuinely are as clueless as this blogger seems, so I just can't decide either way.

Sometimes it's almost fun to live in a world where real people's opinions collide with satire in such colorful ways.

Comments

[danalog.livejournal.com]

I'd imagine that the Onion writers love nothing more than when people take them seriously and write nutso rants about their articles.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Yep, I think the Onion folks were pretty pleased that time when the Chinese government thought they were a real news source!

Love that icon of yours, by the way.

[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

at the moment i read the second post (well, i didn't bother reading the whole thing, just the first paragraph), the #1 slotted response is actually rather good, by Rieux. i do find it hard to believe anyone could be that intensely stupid, so i'm hoping the blogger is meaning to stir things up by pretending. maybe time will tell.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Yes, there are some good responses among the bad. Maybe I'm just too used to visiting journals & blogs where people generally get their points across without being incredibly rude about it.