Portland Douche Nozzle Proves Portland Ripe Target for Satire

This is from a very real exchange I witnessed on facebook*.

Rodney B: Got a call from the Portlandia crew. They are looking for a chicken coop to film for season 2. Anyone have a coop they would like featured?

Jordan F: don't support those exploiters

Rodney B: I like Portlandia and am happy to support them

Jordan F: they ridicule us with no wink to the effect that we are right. they make money off of the hipness of our town. they mock feminists, foodies, librarnians in our community but ignore the realities of toxicity, mysogeny, stoggyness. i think they are ultimately containing us and our culture- making it ironic and helping comodify and destroy it.

Devon H: The main gal lives here...maybe goes to show she likes it. I think it's hilarious - if you can stand laughing at yourself.

Jordan F: she's from seattle but lives here now. it's not an issue of laughing at yourself, but folks like the producers of that show found out 30 years ago that a great way to shut down any open discussion of what coolhunting is and how exploitation of culture works is to say "haha don't you have a sense of humor?" i don't think making fun of feminists or local food advocates is wrong, but where is the redeeming message? in portlandia, feminists are just crazy and rude and manish. local food people are two steps away from joining a cult in the woods. i don't have to laugh at that.

Rodney B: Geesh! To me it's nothing more than a parody of a city that is ripe for mocking and I see no reason why it should have a redeeming message. I love Portland, I love the show and I love the crazy, rude, manish feminists.

Jordan F: and you think this will be good for our city? it's like an immune response- this city is offering the country one of the few rays of hope and optimism- might as well attack it and make it just another puddle of meaningless postmodern signifiers. If you have any background in semiotics, critical theory, or just plain anthro i hope you can see what this does to a culture.

Greg B: Jordan F. is my new favorite character on Portlandia.

Jordan F: Not very nice, Greg. I think these are real criticisms and concerns. If you'd rather insult then discuss then you are making my point for me.


Lack of self awareness says what?




*I edited out unnecessary comments and merged some of douche nozzle's where he tactlessly responded after his own responses.