Thread:Brenanderson2002/@comment-43629859-20190827125953

I'm not saying a person should make fun of others ad nauseum. I'm just saying it's the pits (haha) that Pitt can't joke about Lee without it becoming a thing. Technically, it was Tarantino who joked about Lee, but, whatever. The better response to Lee's Hasty Pudding Man hazing would have been a hearty laugh and then honoring her father -- the responder being Lee's daughter. But, okay -- she went the offense route -- what now? It's tough for a former high school English teacher such as myself to take this seriously because Lee's daughter has clearly not met every teenager on the planet. They roast everyone -- particularly people with power over them -- and it's a weird little compliment. I got called Freddy Krueger by a bunch of seventh graders who liked me but didn't want to write seven-sentence paragraphs. Lee is a perfect person to roast because he can kick all of our asses. That's the trade-off for power in the United States: one has to be willing to take it in the teeth because one is the best. I just hope that Lee's daughter can see that a good joke goes a long way in describing who wears the pants, as is said, in American society.  