@Spicy Memer47 big daddy is still amazing one of the few sandler films that still holds up even now, also the one with drew barrymore where she has repetitive amnesia or whatever i used to watch those all the time for some reason
honestly Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison, The Waterboy, Big Daddy and 50 First Dates are a huge part of my childhood. I owe that man a huge part of my nostalgia and appreciation for comedies! 🖤 shane however.....imma pass that one
"her cosmetology certificate looked like it was printed on the back of a denny's placemat" is an excellent line if it were about a fictional character and not, like, an actual human being. like he clearly worked very hard to be so mean to someone unnecessarily.
same about the musical volunteer. when i heard oates read the description i could almost vividly see the character in me head. he should've written a fiction novel instead of glamourised ""essays"".
Isn't that putting the same message ? What does it matter if she's fictional it's still judging someone based on their looks. I mean Rachel said that its wrong because kids will read it. Won't they get the same idea that's it's okey even if the character is fictional ? I copied fictional characters as a kid. Also most children are mean without having read books like that anyway.
@@eatplastic9133 It's a great line if we're supposed to not like the character. Like, if we as the audience weren't supposed to trust this hairdresser, or if this hairdresser were an antagonist of some kind, it's a great line. But he wrote it about a real person who, as far as we know, was just trying to do her fucking job. Fiction and nonfiction aren't the same, and the way we talk about people doesn't necessarily have to be the same. Also, the placemat line is an implication about qualification, *not* looks. The description of the theatre person was all about looks, and therefore would have been a shitty thing to say about anyone, regardless of whether they were ficitonal or not.
That comment tells me he hasn't been around many certificates and degrees to know they are often over the top in their presentation. It's how they are. It's more a condemnation of his intelligence and educational achievements at that point.
@@UlshaRS have you ever seen any cosmetology certificates? Because my sisters looked exactly like that lol....just saying. It says nothing about her, just about the school she went to that out more into their equipment etc then their graduation and certificates...which was pretty pathetic to say the least.
@@florivalentina3400 His humour would be good, if it didn’t insult others, and put people into stereotypes. Look, I’m not great at explaining things, but Shane’s ‘humour’ is based off of throwing insults at everyone who throws a glance his way, and every gross, inappropriate thing you can think of. His humour comes at the cost of others, and makes fun of people in serious and sometimes life-threatening situations. His stereotypes are offensive, and his jokes are not appropriate for his target demographic. You can have your opinion. There’s no problem with that. I just wanted to point some things out. I disagree with you, but feel free to keep your view.
@@goodnight-moon564 I get that but the jokes about oneself and others are usually the funniest. And the people who find it offensive or dont like it or dont find it funny should just not watch/listen to it. Thats what normal logical people do. They dont say "I dont like this or i dont find it funny therefore you cant either" and then try to cancel people. I loved the old Shane. He was the first RUclipsr i subscribed to i think 7 years ago. And now i cant hear his jokes anymore because of cancel culture.
@@galeg4021 ive never had an experience with it but my neighbors did while growing up. They poured beer all over their hair to get rid of it. I don’t know if it worked. 😬
Nappy hair: “The term is one that has been used as a negative description of very tightly coiled, kinky black hair. "In its derogatory form, nappy is a negative way to refer to the dry, coarse, tangled characteristics of Afro-textured hair.” YIKES, not cool Shane.
Ngl I used to think it was just a general term for messy, greasy hair. No idea it was racial. That was when I was eleven. I'm twenty now. Pretty sure Shane was older when he wrote this book. He has absolutely no excuse.
I'd only ever heard POC use it to joke about their hair texture but I definitely wasn't under the impression that it was something I had any place to use.
@@DemiBirdDoes The only context I'd heard it said in for most of my life was when people would talk about like baby nappies but after I saw it used in reference to hair it didn't take long for me, a child, to realise that it wasn't actually a general term. Under the impression it was practically a slur afterwards, so Shane has absolutely zero excuse and tbch probably knew that he wasn't allowed to go throwing it around :/
Also not surprised he is putting homeless people down. In the movie he made, "Not Cool", he literally had a homeless black character who ate his own sh*t and drank his own piss. Yes that happened.
Not only that, he refused to take it out when someone told him people didn’t like it. He acted like it was ridiculous that someone didn’t like the character.
@@gillianisntcool Yep. I believe his exact words were "I'm not taking something out of my movie to please a bunch of out of work f**ng actors who should be LUCKY to get an audition for a feature film". 🙃
his tendency for overstepping and being inappropriate around kids is super consistent in ALL his content. so sad that nothing was said about it before when he was literally publishing books that catered to a young audience with themes that didn’t belong there. as a minor i’m just glad he’s being held accountable for it now !!
Yeah. I only found his content through the collabs he did with other youtubers I was watching at the time. I was young, I didn't understand why his content made me feel uncomfortable. I was just like "Well, if it /was/ bad then the youtubers I watch wouldn't collab with him because he's a bad person, so i must be overreacting, and his contents actually fine. I trusted the judgement of the youtubers I was watching because 'well they know him in real life and they trust him so i should too' I'm so glad that this kind of behaviour is getting called out now.
I bought this book when I was 14, even went to a meet and greet and took a picture with him! I was starstruck and he laughed and the picture was fine, but when I was going through all of the other pics he took at that meet and greet, I saw a LOT of inappropriate poses he was doing with children my age or even younger. I thought it was weird even back then, but kind of let it go because being raunchy was his *brand*
Misread this comment and thought you said "The Kelly Clarkson Show" at first as in her talk show and was like "wait what?" 😂 I agree with you though. Very disrespectful and hypocritical if he himself has gone through bullying about his weight.
Correction: Shane Dawson's entire career is BAD Also I think the problem I have with the "holding his balls" is that he's an adult making a book that primarily was bought and read by kids. like if I was around children or trying to talk to children I would not talk about grabbing my own junk LOL
Yeah that was my thought too. He really leans into comments about him being sexual or suggesting his (very young) fans are sexual and it's manipulative at best
I watched his content around the time he released this book and I think I was 10 or 11. His content was mostly food and toy videos that were clearly aimed towards children, but the content in them was very very adult. At the time I thought I was edgy, but looking back I wish I hadn’t been exposed to those disgusting jokes so early. It gave me the wrong idea of what “dark humour” was.
unfortunately some US hairdressers do charge men and women differently, even for a woman/female-presenting person with short hair and a man/male-presenting person with long hair as a woman with short hair, I wish he had been wrong on that one
Yes, but they dont ask what gender style hair you want. They ask preferences and just charge you based on your gender at the end. Not saying thats fair, though...
@@whitegamma5106 in my city, a barber got crucified (online at at least) for refusing to cut a woman's short hair, even when she specifically asked for barber techniques. People suck.
Jeffree ⭐ will say his nastiness to ur face. Shane does it behind people's backs. They r BOTH bad! Just depends on if u want a Regina George friend or a Gretchen friend 🤷🏻♀️
@@chaunybuck6065 well, he’s not publicly shaming Shane because he’s still useful for money... While he’s useful, Jefree will insult him only behind his back... though that’s just an assumption...
For someone who constantly reminds everyone how he was treated poorly in school because of his looks (overweight and cheap clothes) and how terrible it was, he makes a lot of "jokes" about other peoples looks.
I grew up in a white religious household where sex talk was quite frowned upon, but I grew up “normal,” meaning that I’ve never had inappropriate thoughts or jokes about kids. That grosses me out and I still can’t fathom how any adult can be attracted to a child like that. I can never justify or excuse Shane for thinking or acting this way towards children. To me, growing up in a really religious household doesn’t explain his disgusting behavior. I think there’s something else that might’ve impacted him, but idk, maybe we’re all just impacted by things differently
@@ladygina As many have said you can blame whoever you want for your issues or where you are at in life, or for robbing you of the life you could have had, but when you hurt someone that’s your choice and everything else you used to defend becomes an excuse. If you can’t control yourself because of mental problems you should be in a mental institute for life. If you are member of society and you do something wrong you must be held responsible for your actions.
@@shayla106 this seems to be a trend in this comment section...people upset when we try to *understand* what motivates people to do what they do. that does not equal justifying or excusing it. I think it’s ignorant to believe people are just “bad” and that there were no motivating factors into what made them that way.
To be fair - very few people knew it was a slur back then. Hell i'm even guilty for saying it a few years ago without knowing how offensive it is to disabled people. But i'm happy that more people are understanding that it's an issue.
@@MonieMakeup well that's not true. They used it because they were actively comparing people to intellectually disabled people, that's why it's insulting.
@@MonieMakeup Still, I don't understand why someone would use it as much as he did. It's as if he thought using the r-slur was funny enough to cover up his lack of humor.
@@Brynwyn123 yea i get What you’re saying. The context he uses it is not excusable. I just never knew myself until recently that it was disrespectful. In my country people still use it when people act weirdly or does a weird thing. And it’s horrible. I’m glad I know better now.
Several American haircutting chains do actually charge based on gender rather than cut. That's what I'm used to at least, and it does suck how blatantly obvious and excessive our pink tax is
Early quarantine I was looking up haircutting tutorials, and the basic ones for women looked significantly easier than the basic ones for men. Assuming you weren't just going for a crew cut at least. Though it's obviously very style dependant.
That practice has always bothered me. It’s supposedly because shorter cuts typically worn by men take less time than cutting longer hair. Idk why they don’t charge per hair length/cut style, but I’m guessing the gendered pricing was simpler.
I remember borrowing this book from my library's e-book collection in college when I was going through a "comedian autobiography phase". I hadn't really watched much, if any, of Shane, but I recognized him as one of the big RUclipsrs. Oh my gosh, when I was done, I was so embarrassed that I read the book that I refused to put it on my Goodreads haha. I remember thinking some of the descriptions were so unnecessarily vile and disgusting.
Well it wasn't a goodread was it ;) and I agree. I've put children's picture books on my GR history (get up there annual count!) but this would be is one that gladly gets cast into the void.
Now this is really interesting, his association of himself with children.... See, I'm transgender. I didn't start transitioning until 5 months ago, I was 21 at the time. So I'm currently 22 years old and going through puberty all over again, but also, what feels like the first time. Like many other trans people, I feel like my childhood was lost. Stolen, almost. I never got to be a teenage boy. I never got to experience growing into manhood and having those self discoveries the same time as my cis male peers So in a lot of ways, I consider myself very immature. I really do identify with the premise of being a teenage guy....despite being 22 years old. ALL THAT SAID, I still don't have any inappropriate relationships with teenagers. Far from it, my social media are all restricted to adults or those I know IRL. I don't hang out with anyone younger than 18. I don't even like talking to teenagers, let alone thinking about them in any sexual context. So I don't know what Shane's deal really is. I don't think his boundaries issues can be attributed to any singular problem in his life, I think he's got a lot going on, and probably should've been in therapy decades ago
I can relate to this. I'm still in the process of effectively reliving my childhood as a girl. I think the problem could be that he never learned boundaries because of purity culture and when he could finally express himself he felt like he was a child just discovering his sexuality. He never learned about those boundaries and probably seeks kinship in his behavior, finding other people who are just figuring it out.
Supercuts is a kind of budget, factory-cut salon where the stylists are limited by corporate. They cut both women's and men's hair. It's surprising that the person would ask "women's or men's" not because they don't gender their haircuts - they absolutely do - but because she didn't just make the assumption and go for it. I've had dozens of stylists try to femme up my hair because they assumed I was a girl.
Oof, yeah I've had that happen too. I've gone on with a reference picture and thought everything's going well, until the stylist just goes "let's cut this a bit more feminine to suit such a pretty girl" and I start regretting all my life choices.
Fun lice story: At my elementary school, we’d have about one lice epidemic a year (it was an all girls school, so we all had long hair), and the school nurse would evaluate you to see if you had it and needed to be sent home. One year was particularly bad - a standout moment was when the entire sixth grade class, minus two people, was sent home with lice on the same day. It got to the point that they brought in a person from the local lice place to help our nurse, only for him to discover that she was very bad at distinguishing between lice and dandruff and had been sending people home who were fully clean 😂. Unrelated note, but lice are attracted to clean scalps, so there’s no shame in getting them
Lol. That was hilarious. And kinda sad that so many people got lice/were sent home thinking they got lice. The fact that everyone except 2 people were sent home is ridiculous and hilarious. Imagine being those 2 people.
We had a outbreak in my 5th grade class. It was a public school but a large % of the girls in the class were best friends and we spent every weekend at one another's house (rotating houses). sharing each others hair brushes and hats and all that. I think the one day it was discovered like, 6 of us out of the 10 girls in our class all got sent home in the same day. It was a nightmare to get rid of them!
@@luuuuux_ Plus, one of those two people got sick later in the day (unrelated to lice), so it was a one-person class for that one girl. I think she just got to go to the library and hang out for the rest of the day lol
@@joroz9808 how am I both sorry for her and jealous of her? Because, that kinda sounds amazing. I mean, hanging out in the library alone? That’s my kinda thing lol. I need to socialize more.
There’s something that some people definitely need to learn. Dark humor does not mean offensive, dark humor is something like “Wow, that fridge is huge! I could totally hide a body in there...” Dark, but not offensive.
Exactly, Dark means morbid, macabre, and usually has to with death or some type of torment. Being racist/sexist/ableist etc. Is not dark humor. It's offensive humor, and it's very hard to make offensive humor work.
I don't think the "women or mens" thing happened either but in america men and women get charged differently. It's been a while since I've gotten a hair cut but many places will have a sign with their prices that will differentiate mens cuts from women's cuts, even independent stylists I've gone to have different prices. As a woman who's had very short hair it was actually a big annoyance for me to pay more for basically the same cut a guy got so I'm well aware of this.
Off topic. Did you ever considered recording audio books? I don't know exactly what the qualifications are for this sort of work, but I've just listened to over a half hour of you talking about Shane's book, and I am impressed by how clear and easy to listen to your voice is. You might want to give it some thought.
Audiobooks would be so much more accessible for me if they would hire better voice narrators. A lot of the books I want to listen to are spoiled by the narrator having an extremely dull or disjointed way of speaking. How do they not understand that the narration is part of the entertainment value? It’s so irritating.
Oh thank you for reminding me about that!! I absolutely LOVE her!! I keep forgetting to check out her book, I bet its a fascinating read! Edit because "forgetting" does NOT have a p in it at all, lol! *fprgetting*
When I was younger I had lice all the time (I don’t even know why) and it only stopped once my mom started putting tea tree oil in my shampoo. Anyway lice are horrid, especially the process of getting rid of them, mostly cause those lice combs always tugged on my hair.
they are super hard to get rid of, especially if you have siblings. My sister, my mom and I all have thick, curly hair, naturally and when my 5th grade class had an outbreak (and I brought them home), it took us forever to officially get it totally under control.
Lavender essential oil is also very effective! My son has waist length hair which he can't stand to be tied back (he's asd) and he has always had a few drops of lavender on his pillow at bedtime. It only occured to me that he's now twelve and has never had headlice so, yeah, lavender is really good at repelling them!
he's so locked into his own point of view, he can't even muster up a "she said" for another person when writing dialog, let alone anything approaching actual observation or empathy. it's so amateurish and boring it honestly doesn't even rise to the level of offensive.
the gross and obscene humour was the humour of his youtube channel at the time. and like you said, the same young audience who watched his videos bought this book. not trying to justify anything shane said or did, just trying to explain. i remember how obsessed i was with his very inappropriate videos when i was 12, 13, 14 years old. yes, i was super edgy 😎😎😎
That last sentence killed me 😂 I never enjoyed Shane’s content but I know people who liked him and Onision and others at the time cause they were also “edgy” and I cringe so hard 😂
Lmaoooooooooooo me too😂 I read Shane's book when I was a literal child, I laughed so fucking hard I got kicked outta my own testing room in school after I'd finished bc I was causing a disturbance to the other kids who were still testing lmao. Looking back, I was not funny either😂
@@magsyilden670 by the time his book came out i think i had just barely outgrown the target demographic, so i missed it. but watching this video i think i would've loved the book as a young teen 🙈
i think the Kelly Clarkson joke may be a reference to her size? I’m not really sure though it seems like a weird mixed metaphor. god this book is so shallow
I read it as a mix of two jokes, one about her weight, another about oral sex. Two jokes, each in bad taste, making a mixed metaphor that's just unfunny.
I'm really confused as to how people would have read this book and still bought his whole "I'm such an empath" thing? My good sir, you're CLEARLY not and you're admittting it in this book lol
as someone who was in his targeted audience, obsessed w his videos at his prime, and now studying child development, I feel so weird and aged criticizing his humour as well. until I remember he literally had my friends and I desensitized and singing "can i smell yo d*ck"
@@hannahwithanx I'm glad both of you grew out of it at least and see his issues, now. I was a teen in the early 2000s (so pretty much pre-youtube) but I remember trendy humor stuff back then aimed at kids that makes me cringe now, too.
I actually remember being 13 and hearing that song and...just fucking hating it. I loved SD but god, i hated the repetition. Im SO glad i grew out of this loser groomer.
In his narration its like he's trying so hard to convince us he's an empath while simultaneously insulting every single character. Doesnt sound very sensitive to other people's emotions to me lol
In France most hairdressers charge based on gender, not hair. I used to go as "a girl", and I paid two times more than now that I transitioned and go as "a boy" (exact same hair length, it's even longer now)
I think maybe he took the selfies out of anxiety related to body dysmorphia. Just saying that I’ve taken pictures of my body before as a way to body-check, during an anxiety attack about the whole thing. Shane is/was very insecure about his looks/body.
I actually thought that when the woman in the story said “women or mens?” I thought she was asking like “women’s cut or men’s cut?” Like asking what style he wanted. I don’t go to hair salons though, so that’s probably why I thought this lol
I'm in Canada and where I am, they almost always charge different prices based on gender AND hair length because "women are more picky" and tend to be more complicated cuts no matter the length, or so I've been told. Pickiness is the same reason companies often slap a premium on wedding stuff vs any other event: "brides want everything to be extra perfect"
Dude was having a Narcissistic Attack... So he went to the bathroom and took a bunch of selfies. That's not anxiety. He wanted to prove to himself he was better than the "lowlifes" in the barber shop. 🙃
I enjoyed this a lot, Rachel! I was never willing to read a synopsis on the book, and it is important for me to take into account that Shane was still in a kid's mindset even at 26. That was something I didn't realize, since I only saw him as manipulative with his youthful audience. But this book makes that especially clear. I never thought for a second that he may have shared his audience's maturity level. Which can be very dangerous seeing as he has the privileges of an adult. I never watched Shane growing up because I had been uncomfortable by some of his characters and didn't know about all of the controversial and concerning things he had done until 2019. I think it's important to hold people to a certain standard, no matter how much they are in the limelight. If it's not okay for myself or my family or friends to do, no matter the circumstances, there's no reason for me to accept and forgive it in someone who's benefitting off of the attention. Anyhow, I really just wanted to tell you I really enjoyed your authentic review. I feel like my head's a little less buried I'm the same on understanding this man (although I honestly don't have much empathy for him, I'm afraid. Which is fine because I learned you don't always have to forgive or be forgiven.) Also that lip color is so darn lovely on you ❤️
Shane admits he was raped as a child. And I imagine that has impacted his behavior in relation to his sense of humor quite a bit. The racism isn’t defensible, but the rape jokes do make a bit of sense in that context. Still, it’s pretty gross. Especially the way he himself talks about kids... It’s just a really bad feeling thing all around. It’s like he can’t see children as set apart from sexuality because when he was a child he was never exempt from being sexualized. He doesn’t know to disassociate kids from sex because they never were in his life experience.
I think it’s so odd to contrast his understanding of himself as a ‘not cool’ kid while simultaneously his thoughts are that of the bully stereotype instead. As somebody that struggled a lot with insecurity and anxiety in high school, it’s so bizarre how he talks about other people. I was always so worried people were thinking thoughts like that about me that I never spent so much time thinking negatively about strangers. It’s like, if he’s so afraid of people thinking that way about him, why does he waste so much time doing it to people like that director or the hairdresser?
Hi Rachel! I know im early so im just taking this opportunity that you might see this comment to give you my best wishes - i know you were in a bad situation a few weeks ago (? my perception of time is gone thanks quarantine, -but it was the livestream you did about your ex) and i just wanted to say i hope you are doing better and that we're thinking of you
the self deprecating “jokes” are so bad i can’t tell you how many times i had to pause the video to take a long deep sigh and shake my head im also for self deprecating humor but i’ve seen/read better I don’t mean to sound close minded or anything, but it is a bit telling when you think about the kind of person Shane is i guess i’m just tired of youtubers having that kind of toxic mindset that you need to be depressed and “edgy” all the time to be #relatable
He ain't in any place to be judging people's looks Edit: "she saw someone who got her" she was crying and everybody knew it of course he knew she was sad
14:51 That hairdresser(/barber, I'm not sure what the right word is) seems to be making a pretty solid effort to put him at ease and this passage is about his anxiety when getting his hair cut. Why is he insulting her?
His humour at this time was a lot more offensive yet the target audience were teenagers, for some clarification the Kelly Clarkson joke was about her weight. I’d personally say he’s no better now but he does admittedly hide this dodgy humour nowadays. You may have already filmed the rest of the reading but if not I hope this helps with the context.
it's insane to me how shane grew up in a low-income situation himself and is now just blatantly awful and classist to people that are in the same position he was
Never really seen anything to indicate Shane Dawson isn't a bloody awful person, so this doesn't altogether surprise me. Still, could've been worse. Could've been a book of poetry.
I think a bigger conversation to be had about internet fame is that it makes us all responsible for the mental health and well-being of those who we watch. Since it is such an 'intimate' relationship (youtuber's success is predicated on the audience feeling connected to them almost like they are friends), it is now like we are all responsible for figuring Shane out and being his therapist, and I don't think that is anyone's responsibility except maybe the people close to him in his life. But since his actions and his trauma have affected so many children (many people have made videos about how his comments and videos made it easier for them to be groomed), we now have to all retroactively make sense of someone we do not know, because he made us all responsible for it. This should be the job of professional people to bare the weight, average people by the millions. There are some really serious things going on here that need to be professionally addressed, especially considering the affect he has had on so many kids. There is always a lot of talk about 'youtuber redemption,' like it's our job to forgive them or like they are entitled to the space they hold on youtube, and this is simply not true. He can still have a place in the world, and can grow as a person if he so chooses, but why must we all be here for it and be affected by it? On that note, this was a great video (no sarcasm intended)
I got this book for Christmas in like 2016. My family and I were recently cleaning out the garage and my mom found it. She asked me where she should put it and I said "in the dumpster, where it belongs." I was only 15 when I read it and I didn't understand any of the "jokes." Now that I'm older, I am embarrassed that I read this book and that I was a fan of him.
Haven't watched the whole video, just wanted to say, that at least in Germany the haircuts are in fact divided into men's and women's. Women's haircuts are a few € more expensive at least, if you get the most basic one. A short-haired woman typically pays more than a man getting the same haircut in the same salon. I don't know how it is in the US, but I general this way of doing it does exist
His OVERTLY graphic sexual innuendos/“jokes” are shockingly prevalent. They’re every other sentence, in every video, SINCE he started. It’s so alarming and ... I don’t even have the words. It’s been a CONSTANT from the jump. Makes my stomach turn .... he’s been throwin red flags javelin-style since ALWAYS and they sailed clean over everyone’s heads. 😔 I really hope no one was hurt or affected by Shame bc of the public’s blindness to what he was all about. I hope we didn’t miss any cries for help ...
I genuinely love how the video starts with "wow this book is bad" and slowly evolves to "ummm this guy is messed up. Let's dig into that a bit more." I've been a proud member of the Shane Dawson Haters club for a decade now. Lol
Fun fact: even the tiny pieces Rachel reads out in this video triggered my body dismorphia real hard. The line about the veins on the skin of the teacher, it's just terrible.
I believe Shane has said that he was molested or something along those lines as a child. If he grew up with a strict christian background especially around sex and at the same time was being molested it could distort his boundaries around sex especially with children.
I like how you really explored the nuances in the book, naming the bad parts and even acknowledging good parts. I respect this channel more than others who provide commentary and criticism.
I'm from Switzerland and hair-salons do actually charge by gender here. It's super sexist and outdated and usually people who identify as women pay more.
His stories about being Christian and being sooo self conscious about sex doesn't make sense with what we've seen about his mother and the way he treated his younger cousin. Especially since his relatives didn't seem to care either, he told his viewers that that's literally his family, extremely sexual. I don't know, just doesn't add up in my head.
im within shanes supposed "age range" and i'm totally comfortable with conversations and jokes involving sex, but every joke of shanes really makes me just go ",,,,ew" lmao, it feels so ill-timed and uncomfy
I personally do take pictures and videos of myself when I'm feeling a bit insecure. Just to see how other perceived me. But yeah this book overall gross
"I wasn't the prettiest girl at the prom but I was definitely good enough to get date raped." BARF. A thousand times, barf. Even in 2015, barf. I think someone needs to explain to Shane that there's a difference between saying shocking/gross things, and humor. It's like he never aged past yelling "penis" loudly and thinking it's hilarious.
Insulting Adam Sandler films is a bold tale coming from the director of “not cool”
"I'd rather eat my own shit."
oH SNAP
hate both
@Spicy Memer47 big daddy is still amazing one of the few sandler films that still holds up even now, also the one with drew barrymore where she has repetitive amnesia or whatever i used to watch those all the time for some reason
honestly Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison, The Waterboy, Big Daddy and 50 First Dates are a huge part of my childhood. I owe that man a huge part of my nostalgia and appreciation for comedies! 🖤
shane however.....imma pass that one
"It seems like he aims at children, but also makes gross, inappropriate jokes"
That's all of Shanes's content. In a nutshell.
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Exactly!! He'll make mature-themed content, but will aim it for kids because he knows kids are the only ones who will find his content "entertaining."
1 year later, cancelled, and he's still putting out the same crap different day. 🙄 Low quality and full of bad jokes.
He never progressed past the emotional maturity of a 12 year old
This book is the literary adaptation of the John Mulaney quote “now we don’t have time to unpack all that”.
LMAOOOO
Rachel looking graceful as always while politely destroying Shane
"her cosmetology certificate looked like it was printed on the back of a denny's placemat" is an excellent line if it were about a fictional character and not, like, an actual human being. like he clearly worked very hard to be so mean to someone unnecessarily.
same about the musical volunteer. when i heard oates read the description i could almost vividly see the character in me head.
he should've written a fiction novel instead of glamourised ""essays"".
Isn't that putting the same message ? What does it matter if she's fictional it's still judging someone based on their looks. I mean Rachel said that its wrong because kids will read it. Won't they get the same idea that's it's okey even if the character is fictional ? I copied fictional characters as a kid. Also most children are mean without having read books like that anyway.
@@eatplastic9133 It's a great line if we're supposed to not like the character. Like, if we as the audience weren't supposed to trust this hairdresser, or if this hairdresser were an antagonist of some kind, it's a great line. But he wrote it about a real person who, as far as we know, was just trying to do her fucking job. Fiction and nonfiction aren't the same, and the way we talk about people doesn't necessarily have to be the same. Also, the placemat line is an implication about qualification, *not* looks. The description of the theatre person was all about looks, and therefore would have been a shitty thing to say about anyone, regardless of whether they were ficitonal or not.
That comment tells me he hasn't been around many certificates and degrees to know they are often over the top in their presentation. It's how they are. It's more a condemnation of his intelligence and educational achievements at that point.
@@UlshaRS have you ever seen any cosmetology certificates? Because my sisters looked exactly like that lol....just saying. It says nothing about her, just about the school she went to that out more into their equipment etc then their graduation and certificates...which was pretty pathetic to say the least.
Shane Dawson? Insulting minorities and lower classes? Being rude and shallow? Who would've thunk it!
It amazes me how Shane was able to keep his “uWu I’m sensitive” reputation up for so long
@Jabreakit Jubawtit I don't know what's worse: That or "I'm so poor" despite living in a mansion.
I dont care i love his humor
@@florivalentina3400
His humour would be good, if it didn’t insult others, and put people into stereotypes.
Look, I’m not great at explaining things, but Shane’s ‘humour’ is based off of throwing insults at everyone who throws a glance his way, and every gross, inappropriate thing you can think of. His humour comes at the cost of others, and makes fun of people in serious and sometimes life-threatening situations. His stereotypes are offensive, and his jokes are not appropriate for his target demographic.
You can have your opinion. There’s no problem with that. I just wanted to point some things out. I disagree with you, but feel free to keep your view.
@@goodnight-moon564 I get that but the jokes about oneself and others are usually the funniest. And the people who find it offensive or dont like it or dont find it funny should just not watch/listen to it. Thats what normal logical people do. They dont say "I dont like this or i dont find it funny therefore you cant either" and then try to cancel people. I loved the old Shane. He was the first RUclipsr i subscribed to i think 7 years ago. And now i cant hear his jokes anymore because of cancel culture.
Friendly PSA: Lice actually like clean hair much more than dirty hair. Lice is NOT a sign of being DIRTY or GROSS.
I know that from the show As Told By Ginger. That show was full of good life advice.
a home remedy for lice is actually to soak your roots in olive oil overnight (source: had to try it once)
@@galeg4021 ive never had an experience with it but my neighbors did while growing up. They poured beer all over their hair to get rid of it. I don’t know if it worked. 😬
AYO NAPSTABLOOK~ also that's useful information!
it's like saying "oh you have a tick? you must not shower lol"
tick like the bug, i guess.
Nappy hair: “The term is one that has been used as a negative description of very tightly coiled, kinky black hair. "In its derogatory form, nappy is a negative way to refer to the dry, coarse, tangled characteristics of Afro-textured hair.”
YIKES, not cool Shane.
Shane being racist? WELL IMAGINE MY SHOCK
Ngl I used to think it was just a general term for messy, greasy hair. No idea it was racial. That was when I was eleven. I'm twenty now. Pretty sure Shane was older when he wrote this book. He has absolutely no excuse.
I'd only ever heard POC use it to joke about their hair texture but I definitely wasn't under the impression that it was something I had any place to use.
@@DemiBirdDoes The only context I'd heard it said in for most of my life was when people would talk about like baby nappies but after I saw it used in reference to hair it didn't take long for me, a child, to realise that it wasn't actually a general term. Under the impression it was practically a slur afterwards, so Shane has absolutely zero excuse and tbch probably knew that he wasn't allowed to go throwing it around :/
The only other time I've heard "Nappy-headed" used this way was in a Nicki Minaj song. Not good...
Also not surprised he is putting homeless people down. In the movie he made, "Not Cool", he literally had a homeless black character who ate his own sh*t and drank his own piss. Yes that happened.
Not only that, he refused to take it out when someone told him people didn’t like it. He acted like it was ridiculous that someone didn’t like the character.
@@gillianisntcool Yep. I believe his exact words were "I'm not taking something out of my movie to please a bunch of out of work f**ng actors who should be LUCKY to get an audition for a feature film". 🙃
@@lilsaam Shane really is a vile human being
He could have cut down on the dude actually eating it. Really, anyone could go in and edit the "jokes" so they're not as excruciatingly long.
@@QJ89 Shane had final cut unfortunately
his tendency for overstepping and being inappropriate around kids is super consistent in ALL his content. so sad that nothing was said about it before when he was literally publishing books that catered to a young audience with themes that didn’t belong there. as a minor i’m just glad he’s being held accountable for it now !!
Just wait for the next chapter we're going to read. It gets SO MUCH WORSE. It's genuinely a little scary.
@@RachelOates Oh yikes
Yeah. I only found his content through the collabs he did with other youtubers I was watching at the time. I was young, I didn't understand why his content made me feel uncomfortable. I was just like "Well, if it /was/ bad then the youtubers I watch wouldn't collab with him because he's a bad person, so i must be overreacting, and his contents actually fine. I trusted the judgement of the youtubers I was watching because 'well they know him in real life and they trust him so i should too' I'm so glad that this kind of behaviour is getting called out now.
I bought this book when I was 14, even went to a meet and greet and took a picture with him! I was starstruck and he laughed and the picture was fine, but when I was going through all of the other pics he took at that meet and greet, I saw a LOT of inappropriate poses he was doing with children my age or even younger. I thought it was weird even back then, but kind of let it go because being raunchy was his *brand*
The Kelly clarkson joke is so gross. Wasn't Shane himself bullied for being overweight?
yes. He's a hypocrite.
Misread this comment and thought you said "The Kelly Clarkson Show" at first as in her talk show and was like "wait what?" 😂 I agree with you though. Very disrespectful and hypocritical if he himself has gone through bullying about his weight.
@@lordfreerealestate8302 projection
Yes. In HS he estimated his weight to be around 400. He lost a ton of weight and has been yo-yoing for the rest of his life
i think it's a sexual joke not a weight joke, people say it a lot and i assumed it meant that
Correction: Shane Dawson's entire career is BAD
Also I think the problem I have with the "holding his balls" is that he's an adult making a book that primarily was bought and read by kids. like if I was around children or trying to talk to children I would not talk about grabbing my own junk LOL
Yes!! He made his career off black face and racist jokes, he needs to go
@@makenzimills2858 and also beastiality "jokes"
Yeah that was my thought too. He really leans into comments about him being sexual or suggesting his (very young) fans are sexual and it's manipulative at best
@@Justplainsomething and animals.
I watched his content around the time he released this book and I think I was 10 or 11. His content was mostly food and toy videos that were clearly aimed towards children, but the content in them was very very adult. At the time I thought I was edgy, but looking back I wish I hadn’t been exposed to those disgusting jokes so early. It gave me the wrong idea of what “dark humour” was.
you should do a tier ranking video for all of the youtuber books/music/poetry you've reviewed!
OMG YES.
@@RachelOates plzz
why did people think obvious jokes with the word "selfie" were funny
They didn't
I don’t think I know anyone who did
pretty sure this came out in 2014 when that kind of thing was still clever
I DID laugh in Life Is Strange when one of the characters lines was "go f*ck your-selfie" but.... mostly at her lol
@@meghandann3284 Life is Strange has some truly remarkable dialogue lol
unfortunately some US hairdressers do charge men and women differently, even for a woman/female-presenting person with short hair and a man/male-presenting person with long hair
as a woman with short hair, I wish he had been wrong on that one
Same in the UK
Same in the Netherlands and Germany
Yes, but they dont ask what gender style hair you want. They ask preferences and just charge you based on your gender at the end. Not saying thats fair, though...
@@whitegamma5106 in my city, a barber got crucified (online at at least) for refusing to cut a woman's short hair, even when she specifically asked for barber techniques.
People suck.
@@whitegamma5106 exactly, they wouldn't have the decency to not assume. It's not that easy to pass for trans people, shane.
He’s insulting everyone behind their backs, while Jefree Star probably does the same about him behind his back... it’s ironic really...
Jeffree ⭐ will say his nastiness to ur face. Shane does it behind people's backs. They r BOTH bad! Just depends on if u want a Regina George friend or a Gretchen friend 🤷🏻♀️
@@chaunybuck6065 now that I watched Mean Girls I finally get this reference!
@@chaunybuck6065 well, he’s not publicly shaming Shane because he’s still useful for money... While he’s useful, Jefree will insult him only behind his back... though that’s just an assumption...
@@letterborneVods 👍🏼😊
For someone who constantly reminds everyone how he was treated poorly in school because of his looks (overweight and cheap clothes) and how terrible it was, he makes a lot of "jokes" about other peoples looks.
I grew up in a white religious household where sex talk was quite frowned upon, but I grew up “normal,” meaning that I’ve never had inappropriate thoughts or jokes about kids. That grosses me out and I still can’t fathom how any adult can be attracted to a child like that. I can never justify or excuse Shane for thinking or acting this way towards children. To me, growing up in a really religious household doesn’t explain his disgusting behavior. I think there’s something else that might’ve impacted him, but idk, maybe we’re all just impacted by things differently
Same.
He has said he was sexually abused and that can result in inappropriate boundaries for some victims, especially if they don’t get professional help.
@@ladygina As many have said you can blame whoever you want for your issues or where you are at in life, or for robbing you of the life you could have had, but when you hurt someone that’s your choice and everything else you used to defend becomes an excuse. If you can’t control yourself because of mental problems you should be in a mental institute for life. If you are member of society and you do something wrong you must be held responsible for your actions.
@@shayla106 I'm not excusing his behavior at all. I'm explaining the possible root of the behavior.
@@shayla106 this seems to be a trend in this comment section...people upset when we try to *understand* what motivates people to do what they do. that does not equal justifying or excusing it. I think it’s ignorant to believe people are just “bad” and that there were no motivating factors into what made them that way.
Sprinkling the r-slur like it's seasoning isn't a substitute for a decent personality, Dawson.
To be fair - very few people knew it was a slur back then. Hell i'm even guilty for saying it a few years ago without knowing how offensive it is to disabled people. But i'm happy that more people are understanding that it's an issue.
@@MonieMakeup well that's not true. They used it because they were actively comparing people to intellectually disabled people, that's why it's insulting.
@@MonieMakeup Still, I don't understand why someone would use it as much as he did. It's as if he thought using the r-slur was funny enough to cover up his lack of humor.
@@Brynwyn123 yea i get What you’re saying. The context he uses it is not excusable.
I just never knew myself until recently that it was disrespectful. In my country people still use it when people act weirdly or does a weird thing. And it’s horrible. I’m glad I know better now.
@@TuesdaysArt True. He definitely depended on shock value more than actual humor.
Several American haircutting chains do actually charge based on gender rather than cut. That's what I'm used to at least, and it does suck how blatantly obvious and excessive our pink tax is
Same here in the Netherlands, at most places. And woman's is more expensive than men's too.
Early quarantine I was looking up haircutting tutorials, and the basic ones for women looked significantly easier than the basic ones for men. Assuming you weren't just going for a crew cut at least. Though it's obviously very style dependant.
It's because "women expect a higher quality of care" or something -_-
That practice has always bothered me. It’s supposedly because shorter cuts typically worn by men take less time than cutting longer hair. Idk why they don’t charge per hair length/cut style, but I’m guessing the gendered pricing was simpler.
Agreed. I found a place that DOES charge based on length and not gender and was so thrilled.
I remember borrowing this book from my library's e-book collection in college when I was going through a "comedian autobiography phase". I hadn't really watched much, if any, of Shane, but I recognized him as one of the big RUclipsrs.
Oh my gosh, when I was done, I was so embarrassed that I read the book that I refused to put it on my Goodreads haha. I remember thinking some of the descriptions were so unnecessarily vile and disgusting.
You know its bad when you refused to put it on your Goodreads "read" shelf.
Well it wasn't a goodread was it ;)
and I agree. I've put children's picture books on my GR history (get up there annual count!) but this would be is one that gladly gets cast into the void.
"""""Comedian"""""
Shane Dawson: “This book is the real me”
Proceeds to write the most judgmental and vapid book these 14 yr olds have ever seen.
Also Shane Dawson: Wait
Anyone else realize his main personality trait was being mean to himself AND his friends?
He’s one of those friends who thinks he’s just “teasing” but takes it way too far, again and again, until the friends can’t take it anymore and leave.
@@introusas send this to his therapist because you’re into something
Now this is really interesting, his association of himself with children....
See, I'm transgender.
I didn't start transitioning until 5 months ago, I was 21 at the time.
So I'm currently 22 years old and going through puberty all over again, but also, what feels like the first time.
Like many other trans people, I feel like my childhood was lost. Stolen, almost. I never got to be a teenage boy. I never got to experience growing into manhood and having those self discoveries the same time as my cis male peers
So in a lot of ways, I consider myself very immature. I really do identify with the premise of being a teenage guy....despite being 22 years old.
ALL THAT SAID,
I still don't have any inappropriate relationships with teenagers. Far from it, my social media are all restricted to adults or those I know IRL. I don't hang out with anyone younger than 18. I don't even like talking to teenagers, let alone thinking about them in any sexual context.
So I don't know what Shane's deal really is.
I don't think his boundaries issues can be attributed to any singular problem in his life, I think he's got a lot going on, and probably should've been in therapy decades ago
I can relate to this. I'm still in the process of effectively reliving my childhood as a girl. I think the problem could be that he never learned boundaries because of purity culture and when he could finally express himself he felt like he was a child just discovering his sexuality. He never learned about those boundaries and probably seeks kinship in his behavior, finding other people who are just figuring it out.
Supercuts is a kind of budget, factory-cut salon where the stylists are limited by corporate. They cut both women's and men's hair. It's surprising that the person would ask "women's or men's" not because they don't gender their haircuts - they absolutely do - but because she didn't just make the assumption and go for it. I've had dozens of stylists try to femme up my hair because they assumed I was a girl.
Oof, yeah I've had that happen too. I've gone on with a reference picture and thought everything's going well, until the stylist just goes "let's cut this a bit more feminine to suit such a pretty girl" and I start regretting all my life choices.
Let's be real. No one makes better book reviews than Rachel. The lipstick looks amazing btw 😍
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Fun lice story: At my elementary school, we’d have about one lice epidemic a year (it was an all girls school, so we all had long hair), and the school nurse would evaluate you to see if you had it and needed to be sent home. One year was particularly bad - a standout moment was when the entire sixth grade class, minus two people, was sent home with lice on the same day. It got to the point that they brought in a person from the local lice place to help our nurse, only for him to discover that she was very bad at distinguishing between lice and dandruff and had been sending people home who were fully clean 😂.
Unrelated note, but lice are attracted to clean scalps, so there’s no shame in getting them
Lol. That was hilarious. And kinda sad that so many people got lice/were sent home thinking they got lice. The fact that everyone except 2 people were sent home is ridiculous and hilarious. Imagine being those 2 people.
We had a outbreak in my 5th grade class. It was a public school but a large % of the girls in the class were best friends and we spent every weekend at one another's house (rotating houses). sharing each others hair brushes and hats and all that. I think the one day it was discovered like, 6 of us out of the 10 girls in our class all got sent home in the same day. It was a nightmare to get rid of them!
@@Throatzillaaa that must’ve been terrible
@@luuuuux_ Plus, one of those two people got sick later in the day (unrelated to lice), so it was a one-person class for that one girl. I think she just got to go to the library and hang out for the rest of the day lol
@@joroz9808 how am I both sorry for her and jealous of her? Because, that kinda sounds amazing. I mean, hanging out in the library alone? That’s my kinda thing lol. I need to socialize more.
You know we should have all RUclipsr books ranked.
This book just shows that RUclips was an excuse for Shane Dawson to live out his mean girl famtasies
i mean, he did have a character based on paris hilton that he loved portraying back in the day 👀
There’s something that some people definitely need to learn. Dark humor does not mean offensive, dark humor is something like “Wow, that fridge is huge! I could totally hide a body in there...” Dark, but not offensive.
as a huge fridge, I'm a quite offended
I mean... I'm quite disturbed but I actually can't feel offended by this. Good job 👏
@@recluseren this made me giggle too hard 😂
I think the fridge may be offended 😂
Exactly, Dark means morbid, macabre, and usually has to with death or some type of torment. Being racist/sexist/ableist etc. Is not dark humor. It's offensive humor, and it's very hard to make offensive humor work.
"I don't really get it, but I'm going to assume it's offensive and move on."
ICONIC
I don't think the "women or mens" thing happened either but in america men and women get charged differently. It's been a while since I've gotten a hair cut but many places will have a sign with their prices that will differentiate mens cuts from women's cuts, even independent stylists I've gone to have different prices. As a woman who's had very short hair it was actually a big annoyance for me to pay more for basically the same cut a guy got so I'm well aware of this.
"Gross, obscene humor" yeah that sounds about right
Off topic. Did you ever considered recording audio books? I don't know exactly what the qualifications are for this sort of work, but I've just listened to over a half hour of you talking about Shane's book, and I am impressed by how clear and easy to listen to your voice is. You might want to give it some thought.
Audiobooks would be so much more accessible for me if they would hire better voice narrators. A lot of the books I want to listen to are spoiled by the narrator having an extremely dull or disjointed way of speaking. How do they not understand that the narration is part of the entertainment value? It’s so irritating.
Girl, this hair color is beautiful on you. And with that bold red lip? Stunning!
His descriptions never tell us anything about characters or places in the books. But it tells us a lot about his personality
If you want a good book by a youtuber, i recommend "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" by Caitlin Doughty (Ask a Mortician)
Hazel Hayes and Dodie’s books are also really good.
I read her book for an english class and i've been obsessed ever since! it would be an odd one to review but definitely a good read
I think I’m gonna check that one out. It sounds interesting.
i love caitlin so much, she has changed my perspective on death so greatly and makes me find the beauty in the morbidity
Oh thank you for reminding me about that!! I absolutely LOVE her!! I keep forgetting to check out her book, I bet its a fascinating read!
Edit because "forgetting" does NOT have a p in it at all, lol! *fprgetting*
When I was younger I had lice all the time (I don’t even know why) and it only stopped once my mom started putting tea tree oil in my shampoo. Anyway lice are horrid, especially the process of getting rid of them, mostly cause those lice combs always tugged on my hair.
they are super hard to get rid of, especially if you have siblings. My sister, my mom and I all have thick, curly hair, naturally and when my 5th grade class had an outbreak (and I brought them home), it took us forever to officially get it totally under control.
Those lice combs were horrendous. Apparently the clean hair thing turned out to be false, it doesn't matter.
Lavender essential oil is also very effective! My son has waist length hair which he can't stand to be tied back (he's asd) and he has always had a few drops of lavender on his pillow at bedtime. It only occured to me that he's now twelve and has never had headlice so, yeah, lavender is really good at repelling them!
I think his Kelly Clarkson bit was an attempt at a fat joke, which is crazy to me because she wasn't even fat, just normal size.
She was definitely fat. But that doesn’t make it right for him to make fun of her.
he's so locked into his own point of view, he can't even muster up a "she said" for another person when writing dialog, let alone anything approaching actual observation or empathy. it's so amateurish and boring it honestly doesn't even rise to the level of offensive.
In America barbers are really more for men in a cultural sense (i.e. barber shops are sports themes, hair dressers are very pink). It's very odd
the gross and obscene humour was the humour of his youtube channel at the time. and like you said, the same young audience who watched his videos bought this book. not trying to justify anything shane said or did, just trying to explain. i remember how obsessed i was with his very inappropriate videos when i was 12, 13, 14 years old. yes, i was super edgy 😎😎😎
That last sentence killed me 😂 I never enjoyed Shane’s content but I know people who liked him and Onision and others at the time cause they were also “edgy” and I cringe so hard 😂
Lmaoooooooooooo me too😂 I read Shane's book when I was a literal child, I laughed so fucking hard I got kicked outta my own testing room in school after I'd finished bc I was causing a disturbance to the other kids who were still testing lmao. Looking back, I was not funny either😂
@@magsyilden670 by the time his book came out i think i had just barely outgrown the target demographic, so i missed it. but watching this video i think i would've loved the book as a young teen 🙈
You should review The Try Guys book to compensate and read something actually wholesome next!
i think the Kelly Clarkson joke may be a reference to her size? I’m not really sure though it seems like a weird mixed metaphor. god this book is so shallow
I read it as a mix of two jokes, one about her weight, another about oral sex. Two jokes, each in bad taste, making a mixed metaphor that's just unfunny.
Yeah he was def calling her fat.
For sure calling her fat, there was no other joke to be made until the "sit on your face" Joke. 🙄
I'm really confused as to how people would have read this book and still bought his whole "I'm such an empath" thing? My good sir, you're CLEARLY not and you're admittting it in this book lol
I think the whole of Shane's career can be summed up in "I'm gonna assume it's offensive and move on"
as someone who was in his targeted audience, obsessed w his videos at his prime, and now studying child development, I feel so weird and aged criticizing his humour as well. until I remember he literally had my friends and I desensitized and singing "can i smell yo d*ck"
he got me singing chris crocker to my 7th grade friends so i feel you.. we shouldve definitely not been exposed to that lol
@@hannahwithanx I'm glad both of you grew out of it at least and see his issues, now. I was a teen in the early 2000s (so pretty much pre-youtube) but I remember trendy humor stuff back then aimed at kids that makes me cringe now, too.
I'm actually having flashbacks to MTV's Jackass now. Woof.
I actually remember being 13 and hearing that song and...just fucking hating it. I loved SD but god, i hated the repetition. Im SO glad i grew out of this loser groomer.
Middle school was a hodgepodge of swearing, sex jokes and ill-imformed homophobia. I cringe at the stuff I used to find funny.
In his narration its like he's trying so hard to convince us he's an empath while simultaneously insulting every single character. Doesnt sound very sensitive to other people's emotions to me lol
In France most hairdressers charge based on gender, not hair. I used to go as "a girl", and I paid two times more than now that I transitioned and go as "a boy" (exact same hair length, it's even longer now)
I think maybe he took the selfies out of anxiety related to body dysmorphia. Just saying that I’ve taken pictures of my body before as a way to body-check, during an anxiety attack about the whole thing. Shane is/was very insecure about his looks/body.
I actually thought that when the woman in the story said “women or mens?” I thought she was asking like “women’s cut or men’s cut?” Like asking what style he wanted. I don’t go to hair salons though, so that’s probably why I thought this lol
Super cuts charges different for men's and women's cuts. At least they used to. It's been a few years since I've been.
I'm in Canada and where I am, they almost always charge different prices based on gender AND hair length because "women are more picky" and tend to be more complicated cuts no matter the length, or so I've been told. Pickiness is the same reason companies often slap a premium on wedding stuff vs any other event: "brides want everything to be extra perfect"
Ooh yay! Already know this is gonna be a good one!!
Dude was having a Narcissistic Attack... So he went to the bathroom and took a bunch of selfies. That's not anxiety. He wanted to prove to himself he was better than the "lowlifes" in the barber shop. 🙃
Maybe it’s just a North American thing but every hairstylist I’ve been to unfortunately does charge by gender and not by length
They do in a lot of European countries as well, I guess the UK is the exception.
@@bratatouille No they do charge more or less based on gender in the UK as well
I enjoyed this a lot, Rachel! I was never willing to read a synopsis on the book, and it is important for me to take into account that Shane was still in a kid's mindset even at 26. That was something I didn't realize, since I only saw him as manipulative with his youthful audience. But this book makes that especially clear. I never thought for a second that he may have shared his audience's maturity level. Which can be very dangerous seeing as he has the privileges of an adult. I never watched Shane growing up because I had been uncomfortable by some of his characters and didn't know about all of the controversial and concerning things he had done until 2019. I think it's important to hold people to a certain standard, no matter how much they are in the limelight. If it's not okay for myself or my family or friends to do, no matter the circumstances, there's no reason for me to accept and forgive it in someone who's benefitting off of the attention. Anyhow, I really just wanted to tell you I really enjoyed your authentic review. I feel like my head's a little less buried I'm the same on understanding this man (although I honestly don't have much empathy for him, I'm afraid. Which is fine because I learned you don't always have to forgive or be forgiven.)
Also that lip color is so darn lovely on you ❤️
Shane admits he was raped as a child. And I imagine that has impacted his behavior in relation to his sense of humor quite a bit. The racism isn’t defensible, but the rape jokes do make a bit of sense in that context. Still, it’s pretty gross. Especially the way he himself talks about kids... It’s just a really bad feeling thing all around. It’s like he can’t see children as set apart from sexuality because when he was a child he was never exempt from being sexualized. He doesn’t know to disassociate kids from sex because they never were in his life experience.
Funny this video is being age restricted when your quite precisely discussing a more appropriate discussion of sex.
I think it’s so odd to contrast his understanding of himself as a ‘not cool’ kid while simultaneously his thoughts are that of the bully stereotype instead. As somebody that struggled a lot with insecurity and anxiety in high school, it’s so bizarre how he talks about other people. I was always so worried people were thinking thoughts like that about me that I never spent so much time thinking negatively about strangers. It’s like, if he’s so afraid of people thinking that way about him, why does he waste so much time doing it to people like that director or the hairdresser?
I am female presenting with short hair and 've had barbers charge me "lady" prices even tho its shorter than my brother's
omg yeah this book sounds like a lot of insults printed on a piece of paper, Im curious to see what you have to say about it in the next vid
Hi Rachel! I know im early so im just taking this opportunity that you might see this comment to give you my best wishes - i know you were in a bad situation a few weeks ago (? my perception of time is gone thanks quarantine, -but it was the livestream you did about your ex) and i just wanted to say i hope you are doing better and that we're thinking of you
Me: "it can't be that bad, can it?"
7:40 Shane makes a fat joke about Kelly Clarkson
Me: "fucking hell"
the self deprecating “jokes” are so bad
i can’t tell you how many times i had to pause the video to take a long deep sigh and shake my head
im also for self deprecating humor but i’ve seen/read better
I don’t mean to sound close minded or anything, but it is a bit telling when you think about the kind of person Shane is
i guess i’m just tired of youtubers having that kind of toxic mindset that you need to be depressed and “edgy” all the time to be #relatable
Yes, there is a thing such as men and women's haircuts. On the menu, it'll say like "men's haircut: $20 women's haircut: $30"
How did he get away with admitting to bullying people and shouting those insults
Tricked kids who didn't know better into thinking he was funny and edgy, not a giant racist douche
i honestly dont think anyone actually read his books and thats why he got away w it
He ain't in any place to be judging people's looks
Edit: "she saw someone who got her" she was crying and everybody knew it of course he knew she was sad
I know he looks so gross and greasy 🤢
@@kellynanea9948 all I can think about is the picture of him proposing and the frontal shot of him looking like the pillsbury dough boy
14:51 That hairdresser(/barber, I'm not sure what the right word is) seems to be making a pretty solid effort to put him at ease and this passage is about his anxiety when getting his hair cut. Why is he insulting her?
His humour at this time was a lot more offensive yet the target audience were teenagers, for some clarification the Kelly Clarkson joke was about her weight. I’d personally say he’s no better now but he does admittedly hide this dodgy humour nowadays. You may have already filmed the rest of the reading but if not I hope this helps with the context.
it's insane to me how shane grew up in a low-income situation himself and is now just blatantly awful and classist to people that are in the same position he was
It’s possible that he’s projecting the hardship of growing up that way.
@@jamesdragonforce yeah that's a good point
I think this book does give us more insight into how twisted his mind actually is.
Never really seen anything to indicate Shane Dawson isn't a bloody awful person, so this doesn't altogether surprise me.
Still, could've been worse. Could've been a book of poetry.
When the best part of the book is that it’s ACTUALLY in his crass, awful voice 😩
I think a bigger conversation to be had about internet fame is that it makes us all responsible for the mental health and well-being of those who we watch. Since it is such an 'intimate' relationship (youtuber's success is predicated on the audience feeling connected to them almost like they are friends), it is now like we are all responsible for figuring Shane out and being his therapist, and I don't think that is anyone's responsibility except maybe the people close to him in his life. But since his actions and his trauma have affected so many children (many people have made videos about how his comments and videos made it easier for them to be groomed), we now have to all retroactively make sense of someone we do not know, because he made us all responsible for it. This should be the job of professional people to bare the weight, average people by the millions. There are some really serious things going on here that need to be professionally addressed, especially considering the affect he has had on so many kids. There is always a lot of talk about 'youtuber redemption,' like it's our job to forgive them or like they are entitled to the space they hold on youtube, and this is simply not true. He can still have a place in the world, and can grow as a person if he so chooses, but why must we all be here for it and be affected by it?
On that note, this was a great video (no sarcasm intended)
I got this book for Christmas in like 2016. My family and I were recently cleaning out the garage and my mom found it. She asked me where she should put it and I said "in the dumpster, where it belongs." I was only 15 when I read it and I didn't understand any of the "jokes." Now that I'm older, I am embarrassed that I read this book and that I was a fan of him.
Shane Dawson what an empath…
Lol why is this age restricted but shane’s channel isn’t?
Haven't watched the whole video, just wanted to say, that at least in Germany the haircuts are in fact divided into men's and women's. Women's haircuts are a few € more expensive at least, if you get the most basic one. A short-haired woman typically pays more than a man getting the same haircut in the same salon.
I don't know how it is in the US, but I general this way of doing it does exist
His OVERTLY graphic sexual innuendos/“jokes” are shockingly prevalent. They’re every other sentence, in every video, SINCE he started. It’s so alarming and ... I don’t even have the words. It’s been a CONSTANT from the jump. Makes my stomach turn .... he’s been throwin red flags javelin-style since ALWAYS and they sailed clean over everyone’s heads. 😔 I really hope no one was hurt or affected by Shame bc of the public’s blindness to what he was all about. I hope we didn’t miss any cries for help ...
I genuinely love how the video starts with "wow this book is bad" and slowly evolves to "ummm this guy is messed up. Let's dig into that a bit more."
I've been a proud member of the Shane Dawson Haters club for a decade now. Lol
Fun fact: even the tiny pieces Rachel reads out in this video triggered my body dismorphia real hard. The line about the veins on the skin of the teacher, it's just terrible.
I believe Shane has said that he was molested or something along those lines as a child. If he grew up with a strict christian background especially around sex and at the same time was being molested it could distort his boundaries around sex especially with children.
He wrote in the book he wasn't molested tho
@@mysticc6232 oh really I guess I was wrong I thought for some reason he said that he was
@@mysticc6232 he did actually say in the livestream reacting to tati's video that he was molested
@@bobbielee9032 Ohh right I remember that, he was having a full breakdown though
@@mysticc6232 true
I like how you really explored the nuances in the book, naming the bad parts and even acknowledging good parts. I respect this channel more than others who provide commentary and criticism.
"I'm ~such~ an empath."
Okay, sure.
Here in Germany, hair dressers have essentially 6 different prices for cuts: short, mid-length, long hair and then men vs. women...
These "essays" give me some serious "and then everybody clapped" energy
no stop thats such a good descriptiom
in the audio book he speaks in the Shananay voice for the hairdresser character. So that whole bit was just super racist as well
Oh NO. 😫
I'm from Switzerland and hair-salons do actually charge by gender here. It's super sexist and outdated and usually people who identify as women pay more.
Freud would have a FIELD DAY with this book...
This book is like "Shane Dawson projects his insecurities onto undeserving strangers, Vol. 1"
His stories about being Christian and being sooo self conscious about sex doesn't make sense with what we've seen about his mother and the way he treated his younger cousin. Especially since his relatives didn't seem to care either, he told his viewers that that's literally his family, extremely sexual. I don't know, just doesn't add up in my head.
im within shanes supposed "age range" and i'm totally comfortable with conversations and jokes involving sex, but every joke of shanes really makes me just go ",,,,ew" lmao, it feels so ill-timed and uncomfy
She is beauty
She is grace
She will punch shane in the face
with his own book
I personally do take pictures and videos of myself when I'm feeling a bit insecure. Just to see how other perceived me. But yeah this book overall gross
It's ironic that I used to mistake Onion & Shane as the same person, yet, their books are so similar
I love the psychological analysis you go into! Hope you'll review his 2nd book, too
Your purple hair is THE perfect shade of Plum Purple I’m OBSESSED, and the red lip goes so well 🤩🤩✨
i absolutely adore the amount of normalising stuff in this video eg lice, sex etc
"I wasn't the prettiest girl at the prom but I was definitely good enough to get date raped."
BARF. A thousand times, barf. Even in 2015, barf.
I think someone needs to explain to Shane that there's a difference between saying shocking/gross things, and humor. It's like he never aged past yelling "penis" loudly and thinking it's hilarious.
are you thinking of reviewing Lana Del Rey’s poetry book? would love to hear your thoughts on it!