The New Yorker - where blacks and gays are respected but Ageism is a Laugh

You know the PC bunch at The New Yorker?

They're SO sensitive when it comes to DIVERSITY.

Cartoonists trying to sell their unfunny ink drips know this. They know that UNFUNNY is not an instant rejection, because The New Yorker, like National Public Radio, caters to the dullest, most boring, uptight and grim butch of money-and-status suckers on the planet.

What makes the difference between UNFUNNY rejected and UNFUNNY accepted is if the cartoonist decides to draw TWO MEN instead of a straight couple. The caption, of course, has nothing to do with gayness, but hey, hey, GAY GAY! Two GAYS in a cartoon! That's something to talk about while passing around the Whole Foods-catered platter of party cheeses. Like so:

Another sure way to sell an unfunny cartoon? Don't be afraid of BLACKFACE. Go ahead, cartoonist, SHADE that face into a SALE. The New Yorker probably has less than 5% readers "of color," but at least 50% who are white and like to be reassured that they are the kind of liberals that Phil Ochs sang about.

So, is there still a safe target for ridicule?

There sure is: OLD PEOPLE. Their lifetime subscriptions aren't gonna bring in much money anyway. They don't all have a lot of money to spend on the self-indulgent shallow crap sold in New Yorker ads. They're still hoping to find a Woody Allen short comedy piece in the magazine.

While cartoons featuring gays or blacks don't ridicule them, or confront in any way, with humor, the actual gay and black lifestyle in New York City, a cartoon of an old person is going to be heartless. Hey...that's FUNNY! Isn't it? Take a look:

That's The New Yorker. We gotta be careful about laughing at the foibles of gays or blacks, but let's be cruel to senior citizens. If they can't take a joke, what are they gonna do, have a stroke? Haw haw haw....