Marathon Show – July 13, 2012 (Part 3)

It was frustrating to listen to Star and Patrick fight because it was so clear they were arguing from completely different paradigms. As an artist, Patrick is very sensitive to his 1st Amendment rights and, as evidenced from most of his points, viewed the manufactured outrage against Tosh as a threat to free speech. Star completely bypassed the legal rights issue and latched on to the moral issue of whether Tosh should have said what he did. Patrick is right, of course. Much of the tone of the outrage was not simply moral outrage but had a definite connotation, direct or indirect, of “there ought to be a law!” Star’s moral point never made much sense to me, because, as was noted several times, she picked the fight with Tosh. Hard to feel a lot of moral outrage for an entitled bitch who feels she can say whatever she wishes, wherever she wishes and believes she is above consequences. Not to say she would have deserved anything that happened to her, of course not, but she got what any man would have gotten (yelled at, insulted) in that time and place. If a woman punches a man three times her size, she will get punched back, as a man would. She thinks because she is a woman, she is above the natural consequences of her actions.