By LaTaviya Goldstein-Martinez

Margaret Cho's Blog - Hello Ms. Cho

http://margaretcho.com/blog/hellomscho.htm

This is a post from Margaret Cho's blog. Some person politely wrote that s/he was offended by Margaret's act and her response was the epitome of closed-minded rudeness that she so frequently accuses other people of having. She could have respectfully disagreed with the person but instead, she just tried to be shocking and offensive.

It's so annoying when people like her with such good points to make get so wrapped up in their own bullshit that they completely loose focus and suddenly they're Michael Moore. Just make your point! Do it intelligently and with dignity. Total extremists are insane on both sides of the spectrum and by putting all the good ideas you have into one of these crazy "fuck everyone who doesn't believe what I believe" arguments you're doing the exact same thing as the conservative extremists. Doesn't anyone realize this?! It's fine to have an opinion, it's great to have disagreement and discussion, but why fuck up the message by purposely trying to be overly controversial and put on a show? That's exactly what this seems like, putting on a show. That is so creepy Hollywood of her.

I'm so disappointed that this is how Margaret Cho handled this. I really like her and I think she has so many good things to say that it really saddens me to see that she's completely bought into her own hype of being Miss Controversy. I understand that her style is to be loud and to "go there" and that's what I like about her. In this case though, I feel like the person that wrote her wasn't trying to be a bitch, s/he was just saying that s/he was bothered by something. It's unfortunate because the person even said that s/he agreed with a lot that Cho said in her act. I'm sure now, thanks to the rude response back, this person will close his/her mind to Cho and to any of the great ideas she supports. That's the main problem with this response. It doesn't take the high road, it just snaps back with this childish little "fuck you" to a person who was trying to have a respectful dialogue to begin with.

People know that I'm all about cussing and I do think the person who wrote the letter was being way too sensitive. When you go to see a Margaret Cho show, you need to expect that type of thing. Clearly though, this person didn't know what s/he was in for and it's too bad that that wasn't what Cho responded with. She could have said, "I'm sorry you were offended. You must be new to my comedy because I cuss a lot in my act. I don't mean to offend people, I just present my ideas in the way that I want to and that happens to be with language you might find offensive. I'm glad you enjoyed the parts you did and I hope this doesn't turn you off to my act forever," or something along those lines. I just think that throwing it back in the person's face and trying to cuss every other word just because you know it bothers her/him is so immature. It's one thing to stir shit up, but if you scream your head off about everything than the really important things get overlooked.