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Nope, sorry, no matter how much I support women’s issues, equality, etc., I’m not going along with this. Had a man made the same exact skit or whatever, it would have been interpreted as having a totally different and unacceptable intent and slant to the jokes.
As far as I’m concerned it’s this: “This is the right way to joke about rape – have a vagina, champ, cuz that’s the only way it’s going to be perceived as ok. Period.” That’s not a helpful double-standard.
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Is Comedy Central providing promotional consideration for the product placement on TPM?
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Yeeea…except the majority of the people in the skit, which is quite clever and funny, were men. And frankly, all the key lines in the running joke are delivered by men. I agree with you that there are double standards when it comes to comedy, but this particular skit doesn’t support your argument. And I gotta preemptively point out, sure most of the writers are women, but I know that because I read the article. That bit of knowledge I’m sure isn’t shared by almost everyone watching the skit.
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I love pretty much everything about Amy Shumer, and as a fan of Friday Night Lights too I thought this was pretty funny. But to place such a headline on an article which is celebrating a skit that the article claims to be the non-offensive way to be funny but which also paints all football players as meathead rapists and all the residents of a small town as their enablers who can only be saved by outsiders coming in to help them is kind of offensive in its own right. Personally I think humor has to push the boundaries, but if you’re going to claim to have a video that finally does something the “right way” maybe you should think about the cliches and stereotypes you’re playing into
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This a very perceptive piece. There is no rape in the sketch, the sketch is joking about rape culture not rape itself. The speakers are men because it is by and large men who come up with ridiculous justifications for nonconsensual sex. And, in the last scene, it is men who are taught to violently dominate anyone that stands between them and what they want, on the football field and in a million smaller ways.
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When I find myself reading all the way to the end of a column in the Cafe lately, I can pretty much assume Amanda wrote it.
Touche, Amanda.
I wish TPM would retire this nonsense because there is no “right way to joke about rape.” It’s not a funny subject and it’s no joking matter.
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