2013 Oscars Host Seth MacFarlane Gets Ripped Apart By Anti-Defamation League, New Yorker: Twitter Comes To Host's Defense [PHOTO]

2013 Oscars host Seth MacFarlane ruffled a few feathers at Sunday's ceremony, including the Anti-Defamation League and the senior editor of New Yorker Magazine Amy Davidson.

"While we have come to expect inappropriate 'Jews control Hollywood' jokes from Seth MacFarlane, what he did at the Oscars was offensive and not remotely funny," the Anti-Defamation League wrote in a statement to the Hollywood Reporter. "It only reinforces stereotypes which legitimize anti-Semitism. It is sad and disheartening that the Oscars awards show sought to use anti-Jewish stereotypes for laughs."

Davidson feels that Seth MacFarlane's performance hosting the 2013 Oscars was an outrage.

"There are many variations on misogyny, and MacFarlane by no means confined himself to a single one," Davidson wrote in a New Yorker article entitled "Seth MacFarlane And The Oscars' Hostile, Ugly, Sexist Night."

She points out that a BuzzFeed post written Sunday night during the 2013 Oscars called "6 Sexist Things That Happened At The Oscars" was revised later in the evening to "9 Sexist Things That Happened At The Oscars."

"The main misogynistic awfulness was centered on the workplace," Davidson wrote. "There might have been a slight dread that MacFarlane would make a waterboarding joke, but he didn't-maybe he felt that Senator Richard Burr, of North Carolina, had taken care of that at the Brennan hearings. But since so much of MacFarlane's humor was rote and derivative, it's more likely that he just stopped at the idea that "Zero Dark Thirty" was about "every woman's innate ability to never ever let anything go."

But Twitter users came to the "Family Guy" creator's defense.

"Am I the only person who thought Seth MacFarlane was absolutely hilarious at the Oscars last night?" tweeted Cassandra Hodgins. "C'mon people. Take a joke!"

Twitter user Nigel agrees.

"Disappointed, but not surprised, that so many people hated Seth MacFarlane at the Oscars," he wrote. "I thought he was great and I'm not normally a fan."

If ratings are the final decider of how any Oscars host did, it looks like MacFarlane was a winner. USA Today reports that early Nielsen estimates show an increase from last year's 39.3 million viewers.

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