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Sep. 23rd, 2019 10:17 pm
hello privilege it's me chelsea
Apparently Chelsea Handler had some sort of "awakening" with the 2016 election and realized that racism didn't end with Obama and sexism wasn't going to end with Clinton's election. (These are literally her words.) So she decided to do something about it, and that something was to make a documentary about white privilege and what it is. Her obliviousness runs so deep that apparently on the first day of filming Netflix HR had to make her take sexual harassment training because she slapped a black woman's butt because that's how she "shows affection". (Like, it took her almost 50 years to know that she should keep her hands to herself???)
She starts out interviewing some prominent black comedians, and then attends a USC class, where the students call her out, and say, "What are you going to do after this documentary? Go back to your nice house?" She also goes to visit her black ex-boyfriend, who she apparently narced on when she was 16. She got to go back to her life, unaffected, and he spent 14 years in jail.
Anyway, it's only a little over an hour long. There are some interesting conversations, and one of the more refreshing things is that Chelsea Handler is not a whiny defensive baby when she gets criticized. I did a quick search to see if I could find any articles about it and a bunch of them were right-wing publications saying stuff like "Wokesters hate Chelsea" and stuff like that. To which I'm like, psh. I'm not sure why white people always have to take this stuff so personally. Nobody said they hated her; they basically questioned her motivations and what she's going to do once this documentary is released.
Between her and one other actress who I can't remember the name of who also took time off the election to figure out how to get involved, I think it's great that these women are doing some introspection. I do question why it took Trump's election for them to have any sort of epiphany about the way the world works for them. Anyway, we'll see what happens after this.
I used to watch Handler's TV show on E, and I thought it was funny at first, and she usually had fairly diverse comedians on. I remember Jo Koi being on it. But the constant alchoholism and weird rants were a bit much, and at one point she had on Jenny McCarthy on to promote her antivax book. Presumably she's moved on a bit.
She starts out interviewing some prominent black comedians, and then attends a USC class, where the students call her out, and say, "What are you going to do after this documentary? Go back to your nice house?" She also goes to visit her black ex-boyfriend, who she apparently narced on when she was 16. She got to go back to her life, unaffected, and he spent 14 years in jail.
Anyway, it's only a little over an hour long. There are some interesting conversations, and one of the more refreshing things is that Chelsea Handler is not a whiny defensive baby when she gets criticized. I did a quick search to see if I could find any articles about it and a bunch of them were right-wing publications saying stuff like "Wokesters hate Chelsea" and stuff like that. To which I'm like, psh. I'm not sure why white people always have to take this stuff so personally. Nobody said they hated her; they basically questioned her motivations and what she's going to do once this documentary is released.
Between her and one other actress who I can't remember the name of who also took time off the election to figure out how to get involved, I think it's great that these women are doing some introspection. I do question why it took Trump's election for them to have any sort of epiphany about the way the world works for them. Anyway, we'll see what happens after this.
I used to watch Handler's TV show on E, and I thought it was funny at first, and she usually had fairly diverse comedians on. I remember Jo Koi being on it. But the constant alchoholism and weird rants were a bit much, and at one point she had on Jenny McCarthy on to promote her antivax book. Presumably she's moved on a bit.
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