3 Ways Chelsea Handler Is The Worst Feminist ClichéDecember 12, 2017 By Nicole Russell
Twitter is often an online version of a preschool playground, but every now and then it sheds light on something. Such is the case with comedian and self-proclaimed feminist Chelsea Handler, whose latest tweets demonstrate she’s more like a feminist cliché than a true believer.
1. True Feminists Don’t Bait and Shame
For her show “Chelsea,†which streams on Netflix every Friday, Handler featured a “comedic routine†wherein Fortune Feimster, an actress and comedian, takes great pains to mock and shame White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders for her weight, accent, makeup, and demeanor.
While applying makeup, Feimster makes random, nasty comparisons to politics. She says her foundation is like America: “It’s Republican, it’s strong, and it’s white.†Feimster says, “My face is a big, fat biscuit!†and before applying lotion she comments, “Right now my skin is dry, just like Puerto Rico right before that one rainy day they had.â€
The video was posted on YouTube and Handler retweeted it. Subsequently, there were approximately one-third as many comments as retweets—never a good ratio for a tweet. ...
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