Host Seth MacFarlane speaks onstage during the Oscars held at the Dolby Theatre on February 24, 2013 in Hollywood, California. (Getty Images)more pics »The reviews are in on
Seth MacFarlane's Oscar hosting stint and... they're mixed. While pretty much everyone acknowledged that the
Family Guy creator was infinitely more charismatic and watchable than many previous hosts (we're looking at you,
James Franco), others
took issue with the nature of many of MacFarlane's jokes, particularly the ones about women and people of color.
"So much of comedy is about the shock of recognition, of seeing some previously unacknowledged truth suddenly acknowledged, but the only recognition MacFarlane offered was that some people say dumb things about other peoples' gender/racial/sexual identities. Which, of course, should not be shocking at all," wrote
The Atlantic's Stephen Kornhaber. Meanwhile,
NYMag's Maureen O'Connor offered transcripts of MacFarlane's most sexist jabs, three of which came at the expense of female celebrities (Jennifer Aniston, Rihanna, and the Kardashians). People found MacFarlane's
"We Saw Your Boobs" tune
particularly distasteful, and no one laughed when he called
Zero Dark Thirty "a celebration of every woman's innate ability to never ever let anything go."
Die-hard MacFarlane fans argue that everyone needs to lighten up, and that his jokes are really about the idiocy of his jokes — so "meta." But even if they're meta, that doesn't mean they're above criticism. So: How did you feel about MacFarlane's jokes?
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