"The actor shared his diagnosis one day before the season 10 premiere of The Goldbergs — where it will be revealed that his character, the Goldberg family patriarch Murray, has died."
He got the Roseanne treatment — fictional death — for the fictional crime of having a mental illness and comically aggressive self-expression.
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It used to be that there were certain words you didn't say in front of a lady. Then we had feminism.
Now if you say certain words in front of women, they'll say its harassment and makes them feel "unsafe".
Modern feminists seem to think this will make them more likable as co-workers, so that men will be more inclined to hire, promote, and confide in them.
Good idea.
Greatest vagina discussion in theatrical history, "The Big Lebowski" -
Maude Lebowski : In a sense, yes. My art has been commended as being strongly vaginal which bothers some men. The word itself makes some men uncomfortable. Vagina.
The Dude : Oh yeah?
Maude Lebowski : Yes, they don't like hearing it and find it difficult to say whereas without batting an eye a man will refer to his dick or his rod or his Johnson.
The Dude : Johnson?
Fast forward -
Maude Lebowski : Uli Kunkol? Her co-star in the beaver picture?
The Dude : Beaver? Uhhhh, you mean vagina...?
I've met Jeff Garlin and had a long convo with him. I know someone very well who knows Jeff Garlin very well. He ain't bipolar.
If repeating "vagina" is a crime, Eve Ensler should be in a supermax prison.
""The Daddy Day Care actor was accused of making inappropriate comments to crew members, including an alleged incident in which he repeated 'vagina'.
Who hasn't done that at one point or another? He's 60, and if you were around in the 1960s or 1970s or 1980s, being a little "naughty" -- or even being "naughty" to the point of imbecility -- was expected of men. Maybe he was just being true to the era the show depicts. Double entendres -- or even extremely moronic single entendres -- were considered "clever" and daringly bold. #ThePastIsAnotherCountry. #AGenerationOnTrial.
I wonder how the cast and crew feel about firing him? I've never read anything from them.
Being an ass on set can ultimately justify termination. But watching an unjustified firing and being afraid to speak up is probably more damaging.
Hollywood is made up of fascist rapists and groomers.
Most were born exceptionally attractive and have been treated as better than everyone else because of it.
They get upset when you challenge their moral superiority to all the ugly people that are supposed to watch them and praise them.
He can say he was referring to the actual vagina, not pussy in general. It's no worse than ovary then. And was it even a human vagina. All sorts of animals have them. Or it might be the latin word for sheath.
Oh hell anyone can go get a bipolar dx. Easy peasy.
Great excuse though. People still eat it up.
He made a mistake in assuming the woman had a vagina.
I recall when it was okay to say:
"Hey hey LBJ
Who ya gonna vajayjayjay!"
We've come so far.
I thought Harvey Weinstein was in jail.
Just a convenient way to explain away celebrity misbehavior
At least he didn't ask her how much she weighed.
Is he a secret Trump supporter?
In Hollywood you can do kind of whatever drug-wise or abusing children-wise.
But women are off limits LMFAO...
"Among comedians, you might think you get special liberties. But if an actress says don't come at me with that sexism and the actor's reaction is well, that's exactly what I'm going to do, what then?"
Then you repeal the idiotic Civil Rights laws, and restore freedom of association.
Oh wait. No. She sues, and gets a bunch of money for being a stupid cunt. There we go.
Perhaps the aggrieved female was frustrated by the comedian's misuse of vagina when in context he plainly meant vulva. That would get me riled as well.
I wouldn't do that. But I don't work on the set of a comedy. It's hard to see how dragging the stultifying rules of workplace etiquette into Hollywood is going to make our entertainment better.
It's also hard to see how blowing up every time some individual is annoyed by a boor into a national story is going to make our lives better.
If he made the diagnosis known to his employer before the firing and asked for some reasonable accommodation, I might have some sympathy. If he got the diagnosis afterwards, then no.
When in show biz, you get caught displaying your normal personality, blame it on mental illness. Your formerly dead career will take a sudden turn up and you'll be invited back into the fold, this time with more cache.
This sounds like the childish situation where X says a word, Y tells X they don't want X saying that word, and X reacts by leaning in and saying the word 5 times with comic exaggeration.
Now, if that happens in a workplace, it's not going to go well. If it's a gendered situation at all, you've got a risk of actionable sex discrimination.
Among comedians, you might think you get special liberties. But if an actress says don't come at me with that sexism and the actor's reaction is well, that's exactly what I'm going to do, what then?
(had to correct my earlier comment which was missing the first line after I copied and pasted to do an edit. sorry!)
All women are actresses.
Perhaps he said back... black hole... whore h/t NAACP, which is frequently reimagined as an opening to dissent.
That said, he was understandably vague. Experts advise that vagina... uh, v-word, is a social construct, conceived in Nature, birthed on a metal slab, then imposed, as, say, a "burden", a carbon repository, by the vast patriarchal collusion.
So I responded to your comment before you made it?
Maybe not omniscient, but prescient!
The correct response is to ask the person what word they would like you to use to denote the vagina.
Then repeat that word loudly five times in a row.
Then tell the people gawking at you that (pointing at the woman) "she wanted me to say it".
Ann Althouse said, "...and the actor's reaction is well, that's exactly what I'm going to do, what then?"
We know what then. HR gets involved and it becomes a federal case. But two things can be true
1. The actor is an a-hole
2. If you can't take somebody saying "vagina" to you without suffering severe emotional distress, you are unfit to work in certain environments.
Maybe he was in character. Murray would do that. He refers to his kids as “morons.”
I am more offended that this mediocre show is still on after 10 years.
Part of the problem, I think, is that Jeff Garlin looks so much like Harvey Weinstein.
Wonder what Anita Hill thinks about Now.
Saying "he repeated 'vagina' " without saying what the actual joke was robs the situation of its most important context. It's like when police officers used to read transcripts of Lenny Bruce's routines out loud in court, in a monotone, to highlight the "obscene" words while sapping out any ounce of humor.
What was Garlin's offense? When he got up from a chair, instead of groaning, he would say "Ow, my vagina!" The joke being -- if it needs to be explained -- that he's a chubby middle-aged man who doesn't have a vagina. That's what people were mad about. It's stupid, but it actually sounds pretty funny.
Maybe he was reenacting the scene from Curb Your Enthusiasm where a woman accuses him of having a small penis and he responds by saying she just has a large vagina.
The vagina monologue... m-o-n-o-logue.
She should try working as a stripper. "Vagina" is a stage direction.
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