Sir Patrick Stewart Has a Sense of Humor. Why Don’t You?

As you likely know, and as FIPS has often noted, legendary actor Sir Patrick Stewart has been living among us Slopers for almost two years now. The Knight of Kings County (no one calls him that, by the way) has displayed his charming sense of humor throughout his residency, playing on his fame and joking about his adopted neighborhood, in wnyc pledge drive pitches, snapping selfies all over town with Waiting For Godot costar and bestie, Sir Ian McKellan, and most recently, talking to press at IWC’s Tribeca Film Festival party, joking that he wants to institute a stroller ban in Park Slope, that in fact, he and former Mayor Bloomberg had begun such an initiative.

HAHA! Good one, Sir Pat! See what he did there? He gently mocked Park Slope with appropriate local references (strollers, kale), he poked a little fun at former Mayor Bloomberg and his bans on smoking and torso-sized sodas, and he showed himself to be a good sport.

Back on the internets, however, stroller-pushers and stroller-haters alike showed a worrying lack of ability to recognize a joke.  Baby owners got bent out of shape and were even “confused” by Stewart’s remark, while the anti-stroller faction chimed in on the comments section of New York Magazine to praise Stewart for what they took to be his public stand against the tyranny of 4-wheeled child-conveyors blocking entry to bodegas and phone stores.

Breeders, Ballers, we need to talk: You are both obsessed with strollers. If you climbed out of your own anuses for a few minutes and looked around it might occur to you – I’m talking to both of you! Don’t make me come back there!  –  that a famous Shakespearean/Star Trekian/X-Manish actor doesn’t give enough of a shit about strollers on the sidewalks of Park Slope, to actually mount a campaign banning them.

Now, scooters, on the other hand…