Name-calling other women

Iused to watch Samantha Bee because her manic sort of mean-girl humor appealed to me. (I’m a manic sort of mean girl myself.) While I don’t share her politics, I like her delivery and her sass, and the fact that she’s Canadian is even more delightful, because who knew Canadians were funny? (Please don’t email me about great Canadian comics. That was my mean-girl humor.)

But after last week’s show, I won’t be watching her ever again. It’s my own private boycott, and won’t involve the cancellation of major contracts and the loss of hundreds of jobs on an ABC sitcom, or diversity training at a franchise of coffee shops. But it will make me feel a little less dirty.

Last week, Bee made a major bumble and called Ivanka Trump a “feckless c***” because Trump posted an Instagram photo of herself with her youngest baby, Theodore, on Memorial Day weekend. Bee was upset that Ivanka could seem so “tone deaf” about loving her child when her dad’s administration was apparently separating children from their parents at the border.

You can disagree with President Trump’s immigration policy. I do. It is base inhumanity to separate children from adults and put them into foster care and detention centers. Those who, like me, are virulently opposed to abortion and call themselves pro-life would be hypocrites if they said they supported this draconian and cruel measure.

But what you should not do is use your disagreement with government policy to slander a loving young mother who has the audacity to show how much she loves her child on social media.