Mixed Plate: Public Shame Shell Game and Frankenstein's Monster

I know, it's funny, right? I saw this magnificently hilarious meme make the rounds on Twitter after Paula Deen's latest public snafu, or Brownfacegate, as I'd like to call it. I thought, Oooh, BURN -- what a perfect Interweb-ready image to represent Deen's firing of a social media manager after Tweeting an inappropriate photo! It perfectly illustrates Deen's lighting a bag of poop on fire on someone's doorstep and then running away. Well done, Interwebs. Pat yourselves on the Hive Mind back and settle into the smug feeling that the big bad Buttered Bigot (I so love you for this, K, aka @NinjaHarlot), has been chased back into her cave by the pitchfork-wielding villagers. I thought this. I Tweeted and Facebooked this. And then I thought again, realizing OH CRAP -- I totally missed the point (as have a lot of people), and Food Network and everyone else who silently allowed The Image Who Shall Not Be Named publicly air in 2011 have already won. The monster has been chased away, but the mad scientists remain.

Just type in "Paula Deen Riding a Cat" into Google and let the amusement begin. Trust me.