Interview · moment 20 of 28
The Comedic Case for Mocking the Big-Tits Shop Teacher
from Louis CK | The Tim Dillon Show #317 · #317
3 min
Guest
They debate the ethics of making fun of the trans shop teacher, with Louis arguing there's a new social contract where extreme spectacle (comparing it to his own creepy old shop teacher) invites public laughter regardless of political sensitivities.
- Tim argues that mocking someone depends on context—it's different if they're a public figure versus a shop teacher affecting her students and colleagues.
- There's a new social contract: if you get implants larger than anyone has ever seen and teach shop class, people should be allowed to laugh at the ridiculousness.
- Tim describes his own shop teacher, Mr. Swanovsky, as a creepy old guy who never smiled and only cared about soldering irons and safety.
- Shop class is the least valuable position in a school because everything taught there is fake and meaningless—nobody becomes an architect from it.
- The only real objective of shop class is keeping kids from hurting themselves; teachers spend the first three days listing horrifying accidents that happened to previous students.
- Tim describes the teacher getting implants so cartoonishly large that she has to stand a foot and a half back from the saw to teach, with kids literally positioned between her and the equipment.
- Tim acknowledges why a trans person would like shop class—because everything can be built and soldered—and says he'd want to teach biology to show what can be constructed.
- When done with cartoonishly large implants, the world should be allowed to laugh at the ridiculousness of the situation.
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