I honestly can’t. Last week, following the firing of Gina Carano for problematic political opinions and the “cancellation” of Reply-All for producing a series about the cancellation of Bon Appétit, our clown car culture couldn’t quit: the British Royal Family, which I’m told our country once fought a war to not care about, was nuked by the press for mistreating a beloved princess, the host of the Bachelor tried and failed to apologize for suggesting someone else embroiled in a cancellation should be shown a little grace, and a tech CEO inadvertently triggered a pile-on when he implied being out of shape impacted work performance. But, fantastically, the week’s most batshit crazy dramas actually had nothing to do with real humans.

Remember a couple weeks ago when we published Sonya Mann’s primer on the furries living at the heart of our culture war? That’s right, folks, we are once again coming at you live from our charmingly dystopian future. I just had no idea these people worked for Sulzberger:

Over at the New York Times Charles Blow, coming in hot with one of the season’s most notable attention grifts, suggested Pepé Le Pew, a 75-year-old cartoon skunk, contributed to rape culture. He further indicted Speedy Gonzalez for perpetuating racial stereotypes. Separately, the internet was divided over the question of whether or not Lola Bunny, a cartoon rodent from 1996’s Space Jam, had been drawn — 25 years ago — in too sexy a manner. On Twitter, Jessica Rabbit was dragged into the mix, and the absolutely vital question presented was thus: were the illustrators of 1988’s Who Framed Roger Rabbit critiquing sexism with their too-busty cartoon femme fatale, or were they just a bunch of perverts? For my part, I think the answer is maybe both, and also this is fine and somewhat funny, and also, quick question, why are we taking our moral cues from writers obsessed with the sex lives of cartoon animals? Don’t get me wrong, my intention here is not to kink shame anyone, I just think it important we remember this is, in fact, a very niche kink.