Female Mascotitude! Kristen Schaal on Gender Discrimination in Olympic Mascots
Caught this fabulous, scathing, poignant, and funny commentary on gender discrimination presented by Kristen Schaal on The Daily Show. One of those daring pieces that you could tell made the audience really uncomfortable (as it should have) and ended so brilliantly I actually clapped at the television!
Hurray for The New Progressive Mascots of the Olympics!
Success! Power! Possibility! Stay at Home Dad! and Anonymous Sperm Donor!
See also her piece on Women Presidents:
The Daily Show has always presented progressive comedy, and while Nancy Walls, and Samantha Bee have been formidable comedians they were no where near as blatantly feminist as Schaal. I loved her as the adorably creepy fan, Mel, on Flight of the Conchords and hope we see more of her soon. In fact, she should get a cover story on BUST, and I should write it!
Hurray for The New Progressive Mascots of the Olympics!
Success! Power! Possibility! Stay at Home Dad! and Anonymous Sperm Donor!
See also her piece on Women Presidents:
The Daily Show has always presented progressive comedy, and while Nancy Walls, and Samantha Bee have been formidable comedians they were no where near as blatantly feminist as Schaal. I loved her as the adorably creepy fan, Mel, on Flight of the Conchords and hope we see more of her soon. In fact, she should get a cover story on BUST, and I should write it!
Labels: gender discrimination, Hillary Clinton, Kristen Schaal, presidential campaign, women on television, women's rights
posted by Jennifer K. Stuller | 9:26 AM
5 Comments:
Wow. These videos absolutely made my day :)
I'm so glad! They made mine too!
I've been researching Schaal a bit and it turns out she co-founded this organization in New York called "The Striking Viking Story Pirates" that takes stories written by kids and turns them into theater performances with puppets, actors and costumes.
Awesome!
http://www.storypirates.org/index.html
Oh, very cool. I love some of the stuff the kids have written...what a great program!
And I'm going to have to really check out Flight of the Conchords now...
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Flight of the Conchords is hilarious! And Schaal's character, Mel, is the BEST creepy-stalker-fan ever.
I do have to admit, it took me awhile to get into the show. While the songs are funny and clever when there's more than one per episode it can feel tedious.
Jemaine and Bret (who featured in the current issue of BUST) are adorably dorky, but I've got to give it up for their manager, Murray.
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