Gender in the Lonely Island

2038-01-19T03:14:07Z

As I do exactly the wrong thing and indulge my jet lagged wakefulness at 5am by catching up on Andy Samberg's Lonely Island, I just realized that one of the things that consistently delights me about them is that a lot of their stuff pokes fun at and deliberately fucks with masculine stereotypes: premature ejaculation in "Jizz in my Pants," junior Donald Trump wannabes getting inarticulately excited in "I'm on a Boat!", wooing Ahmadinejad (though there are no gays in Iran) in the piano-ballad "Iran so far," and making Natalie Portman into a PCP-addled genderbending nightmare in her SNL rap.

From Natalie's epic rap:
Chris Parnell: "Damn, Natalie. You one crazy chick."
Natalie: "Shut the fuck up and suck my dick!"

Even "Dick in the Box" with the ridiculousness of the "my dick is a present to you," even though that very idea comes up over and over again in viagra ads and stories like "semen makes women happy" (BBC).

Just props to Andy, the self-declared feminist:

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Gender in the Lonely Island