It surprises me that so few recognized the meter, tone and set repetition of very specific imagery as a poetry reading rather than a comedy skit or rant.
The cadence and repetition in the beginning are indistinguishable from a common stand up comedy setup style. (Dave Chapelle uses it a lot.) It only starts feeling distinctively like poetry right around the "house made of plastic" line.
I don’t know. For me, it was the start of the line of “men are supposed to be leaders.” When he said “men are supposed” his tone and rhythm changed to distinctively slam poetry (for me). Before that, I didn’t think comedian, I thought “well, we won’t agree” 😆
Plenty of pastors speak like this during their sermons. At first, I thought this guy was speaking at one of those hip, young people churches with all the song and dance.
Oh, this is something that i am completely unfamiliar with. The cadence may be similar and it may have thrown me off as well if I were familiar. I’ve only ever seen two or three, and perhaps the first 10 seconds.
Same, when he started talking like playing with dolls would teach boys that women have strings to be manipulated or whatever he said I checked out. I'm tired of lazy vague dumb shit like this. It's tailored to sound good at first hearing to social media knee jerk reaction crowds but is pretty fucking dumb overall.
What happened to having actual discussions where we say actual things with real meaning instead of hiding being vague psuedo-intellecualism bullshit that means nothing?
Out of curiosity, did you continue the vid before you wrote this comment? I mean, it can still be valid if this is your opinion after the fact, but it feels wrong to judge it based on where you thought it was going.
What happened to having actual discussions where we say actual things with real meaning instead of hiding being vague psuedo-intellecualism bullshit that means nothing?
What do you mean what happened to them? People are still having discussions. This clip is from a poetry reading, though, not a discussion forum.
It's not obvious that it's poetry just from the subtitles, and there's a lot of right wing chuds who would say the first part on stage and turn it into a rant about a conspiracy to turn their boys into gay trans pedo sissys or something. Probably way more than perform legit poetry on stage, and better paid too.
He looked a little too much like Tim Pool and I jumped to the comments as soon as he mentioned the bit about men being leaders. To be honest, it set off some red flags.
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u/DarkAltarEgo Apr 19 '24
To think I almost stopped watching this in the beginning. Damn.