Here’s the thing. I am all for decorum, but I’m a little tired of this passive aggressive culture we have in the US. So while I think Kanye interrupting the lovely Taylor Swift was completely awful, I’m pretty glad he did it and here’s why:
He acted on what he was feeling at the time in a way that didn’t hurt anyone physically.
And he got the President to have another human moment when he referred to him as a Jackass.
Somewhere along the way, it stopped being OK for everyone to be human. How many of us said something far worse than jackass this week about someone. I know I did. I call someone a fucktard at least once every couple hours because I get irritated and that’s how I express myself. President Obama, thankfully, is not as eloquent as I am nor as skilled at making up derogatory words. But you know, Kayne felt that as an entertainer (and that this was on MTV and he was drunk) that acting that way was acceptable.
And thanks to that act, we’ve had all kinds of shit to talk about this week.
While I’m not going to rush on stage at the next school awards assembly and take the mic from some poor kid to launch into a rant about how my kid was robbed, I definitely want to stop suppressing every human urge I have for the sake of decorum.
Hear that honey….