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unapatriciated Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 06:19 PM
Response to Reply #58
60. I never said it wasn't stupid.
Edited on Fri Sep-25-09 06:23 PM by unapatriciated
sat⋅ire   Show IPA
–noun
1. the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc. - This is what you failed to do
2. a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule. - This is what you did to gay men
3. a literary genre comprising such compositions. - Uuuh - never mind
Origin:
1500–10; < L satira, var. of satura medley, perh. fem. deriv. of satur sated (see saturate )

Synonyms:
1. See irony 1 . 2, 3. burlesque, caricature, parody, travesty. Satire, lampoon refer to literary forms in which vices or follies are ridiculed. Satire, the general term, often emphasizes the weakness more than the weak person, and usually implies moral judgment and corrective purpose: Swift's satire of human pettiness and bestiality. Lampoon refers to a form of satire, often political or personal, characterized by the malice or virulence of its attack: lampoons of the leading political figures. - There is nothing Swift about you

"Literary forms in which vices or follies are ridiculed" The gay men and their lifestyle were highly ridiculed.

"Watching this shouldn't have left you with the impression that a liberal made it" - Mission accomplished, I was left with the impression some homophobic redneck jackass made it.




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