GROIN & BEAR IT (Hollywood Thinks It's Hysterical When Men Take A Shot the Groin)

Los Angeles Times ^ | July 20, 2004 | MARTIN MILLER

[Bush4304]

Dude, the fact is, those actors who take the shot at the groin in the movies are men themselves. Some of it, may not be funny, and some of it may. But the fact is, liberals have made their money by making cheap shots at us, in the same fashion that you are doing right now. Im not the type of person to whine and cry over something stupid like this, come on man dont lower yourself to their levels. What you say might be true, but its not worth bringing up.

[RockinRight]

Conservatives get kicks in the groin by liberals daily!

[Cooter]

A measure of schadenfreude underlies a man's laughter as well.

I thought schadenfreude^TM belonged to FR. Someone send the LA Times a cease and desist letter.

[truthkeeper]

ping

[atomicpossum]

Come on...this is less about Hollywood out to 'castrate' men. It's more about Hollywood being unable to write comedy anymore. Take away groin shots and poop jokes and Hollywood has nothing to say on the subject any more.

[Larry Lucido]

"When a woman kicks a man, it's a way for her to temporarily assert her power relative to a man — in a short, sharp way,"

But, God forbid, she so assert herself with a Colt .45.

Unless, of course, she downs the guy with one shot to the shoulder, then drops the gun and turns away crying while he slowly revives......

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

"You don't have to 'kick him in the nuts.' You can just graze the nuts and the man will be in pain."

Eddie Murphy "Raw."

[Corin Stormhands]

A kick in the groin doesn't hurt a lie'bral...

[discostu]

And playing on my stereo while reading this article, track 8 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002JNN/qid=1090423085/sr=8-6/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i6_xgl15/103-1086048-3054261?v=glance&s=music&n=507846

Sometimes you just gotta love the natural sense of humor reality has.

[presidio9]

Do girliemen even have balls?

[Corin Stormhands]

When they need 'em for a movie they have to call special effects...

[Fintan]

 

Hysterical.

[SunkenCiv]

I'd disagree that it's hysterical, but would use that photo as exhibit A as to how soccer is the European precursor to the WWF.

[SunkenCiv]

But without the showmanship or class of WWF. ;')

[hobson]

When I first glanced at this headline I thought Hollywood was asking Bergler to expose his docs.

[Question_Assumptions]

It's just slapstick and it works well because such hits tend to cause a lot of pain (the bread and butter of slapstick) without any lasting injury. And the reason why it is funny for a woman to hit a man but not for a man to hit a woman is that in the real world, men send women to the hospital but the reverse is rarely true unless the woman picks up a weapon. Women really get hurt when men hit them.

[Centurion2000]

They have to kow-tow to the woman otherwise they are some barbarian from the dark ages. Chilvary is sneered at.

Proud to be a barbarian and sneered at ... feminazis are evolutionary dead ends.

[50sDad]

Women really get hurt when men hit them.

So, if wimpy effeminate Michael Jackson were to b!tchslap Lucy Lawless, the really buff actress who played Xena, who could supposedly take it without serious injury, that would be funny?

My mother-in-law, a passive-agressive lady who's husband is a recovering alcoholic (30-years dry, but she's not forgiving nothing) simply LOVES the Funniest Home Videos where a guy gets a brick right in the "meat and two veg". You don't have to be Freud to get that one.

In my experience, it's nothing but taking a cheap shot by promoting a cheap laugh by using a cheap gag. Some things ought to be off limits. No one would think of getting a laugh today in the movies by showing a black person doing a minstrel show, a stingy Jew, or "playfully" slapping a woman around "because it is funny." If we are going to "respect" people, then it should be everybody, and I don't care if the Left drags out the "its funny because men are evil bastards and deserve it" excuse. It is no more funny than "America deserved what it got on 9-11".