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I've been seeing this article being passed around quite a bit the last few days: Isn't Sinead O’Connor Overdue A Massive, Groveling Apology From Absolutely Everybody?
It raises some excellent points, none of which I want to get into here. Mostly, it just made me think of watching that episode of SNL when it happened, and how completely clueless I was about popular culture at the time. I became media aware fairly at a fairly late age, being the typical reclusive geek all my life. SNL was one of the shows I consciously watched not so much because I liked it, but because I knew I needed to start understanding references better. I wasn't even really paying attention when she ripped up the photo, since the music guests usually bored me. I mostly remember being a bit confused about why Sandra Day O'Connor was singing on SNL. Yes, I confused the singer for the supreme court justice. I didn't even recognize the photo at the time, I didn't realize what had happened until news stories about it the next couple of days. As an obnoxiously militant little atheist, I mostly just thought it was all pretty cool. I didn't even pay attention to the why she had done it -- I think I thought it was some Ireland Protestant/Catholic thing.
So, yeah, I guess my main response boils down to: I used to be a real dork.
It raises some excellent points, none of which I want to get into here. Mostly, it just made me think of watching that episode of SNL when it happened, and how completely clueless I was about popular culture at the time. I became media aware fairly at a fairly late age, being the typical reclusive geek all my life. SNL was one of the shows I consciously watched not so much because I liked it, but because I knew I needed to start understanding references better. I wasn't even really paying attention when she ripped up the photo, since the music guests usually bored me. I mostly remember being a bit confused about why Sandra Day O'Connor was singing on SNL. Yes, I confused the singer for the supreme court justice. I didn't even recognize the photo at the time, I didn't realize what had happened until news stories about it the next couple of days. As an obnoxiously militant little atheist, I mostly just thought it was all pretty cool. I didn't even pay attention to the why she had done it -- I think I thought it was some Ireland Protestant/Catholic thing.
So, yeah, I guess my main response boils down to: I used to be a real dork.
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We knew that allegations had been made, and were continuing to be made, and my general reaction was 'yeah, can see why she did that, fair enough' and I don't actually know anyone who condemned her for it. (I am not Catholic but half my family are - but Italian and not Irish, or they might have had more to say about it.)
The Father Ted stuff I just took as being an easy target, and in context an obvious one. Almost every guest character there was a nutter of some sort AND obviously mocking at least one real celebrity of similar type, so one based on SO'C didn't seem like it was solely and specifically aiming to hurt her.