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The joke, while not spit-my-coffee-out funny, was still funny. It works because it was absurd in the same way a joke about 
Ghandi or an Auschwitz victim being such a fucking fat ass would be funny. It works because it an incredibly hyperbolic way 
to address our voyeuristic tendencies toward people we often loathe, for which the Oscars is the embodiment, and at the same
time it's targeting someone who would be a completely absurd target for that type of comment.

It was blue, deadpan, satirical, and the choice of the word "cunt" added an almost morbid shock to it.

Lots of people like dark humor. If you don't then don't follow @theonion on twitter.  You have to be 13 to have an account
on Twitter.  Maybe the Internet isn't the best place to raise your 9-year-old. I'd like to know who this person is that's
going to tell this 9-year-old girl that someone on the Internet called her a cunt. Because the Internet isn't the asshole
in this story. I hope they immediately follow it up with what 4chan and rotten.com are. 

I'm really sorry for you if reading the or hearing the word "cunt" makes you so mad that you get tunnel-vision and immediately
lose all perspective; But there's no such thing as "the right to not be offended". And I'm really sorry that you may have been
called that and it really hurt you. Life is tough all around. Harden up. Just dismissing anything a male says with terms like
"male privilege" and "the patriarchy" isn't really a counter argument so much as it is a whine.

I think Stephen Fry puts it better than I could ever put it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02dXAkxbyQg