Wow..

Okay, I had to look up the crunchies just to start. I thought it might be some kind of award for bakers or bakeries. Maybe pizza.

Apparently, it is a tech awards show put on by TechCrunch and VentureBeat. A lot less tasty, and interesting, than I was hoping for. Still, I did bother to look it up so let me see where this goes.

As a working parent, evenings are sacred.

Just not a strong start at all. As if being a working parent rather than just a parent or a worker makes your evenings more sacred. Having children doesn't make you a martyr for society. It doesn't make you special. Finally, it doesn't give you special rights. It is an individual decision that you take individual ownership of. As a non-parent, reading "As a parent" or "As a working parent" hurts your cause by showing you consider yourself special.

But when I was asked to represent Twitter at the Crunchies to accept the award for Social Impact, I immediately accepted. I was honored and proud.

My evenings are sacred, but if I just have to be invited to an awards show to accept an award I will suffer it. Heh.

Finally, to make sure this doesn't end up as a huge paragraph, the rest can be summed up by a lot of people taking awards shows and comedy too seriously. Yes, you may not like it when someone is called a bitch. Yes, it may not fit your world view that a comedian is allowed to word rape an innocent survivor. With that said, comedians use lies to tell the truth. They are able to touch on subjects and bring things to the front that otherwise would not get any public discussion for being taboo for various reasons.

I don't defend what this comic did. Instead I am concerned about the lack of ability to "take a joke" that many very famous, very huge names have said makes college shows toxic. If you can't do a dirty, politically incorrect joke that may offend some people then comedy is dead.

tl;dr It is called the Crunchies. Isn't that enough..?