These Girls Get It

I live in New York, so I see famous people occasionally, but I’ve always been one to adopt the “oh, who cares” mentality, even if it’s someone that I really care about, like Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer from Broad City. (I went to a party that they were at recently. It’s no big deal.) (Fine. It was a fashion week party and very glamorous and I wore a fantastic jumpsuit and later went to a startup’s office and drunkenly ate all their snacks and took a cab home from a man who thinks you have to have $25,000 in your savings account, minimum, to enjoy New York City and that the town is being ruined by rich kids and bloggers. I told him “same.”) Because that’s we’re supposed to do, right — — pretend we’re too cool to care but really we’re focusing all our energies into sending out chill vibes so that the famous person will approach us and try to be our friend, right?

Anyway, the person who approaches Abbi and Ilana at the end of this awesome New York magazine profile clearly did not get the memo.

Then the woman offers one last idea: “Niglets.”

This is where Glazer draws the line. Comedy-wise, Donald Glover has already covered the topic of tiny black people, and besides, “I’m fucking white. We’re not going to say ‘niglets’ on our show, you know. We’re white as fuck.”

I mean, first of all, girl what. Secondly, damn, that’s really funny, but also… sort of revolutionary? Glazer using her whiteness as justification to not do something or as a barrier to not be allowed into the joke is a swift turn from people who think that comedians are allowed to say whatever they want — — Glazer is proof that you can opt out and still be funny. Somebody tell the men on Twitter, please?