This is too hard to time…
Make it short an to the point. Like,
- ''Give him a break.
It’s a medical condition.
It’s called iron-deficiency anemia.
Never breast fed."
!!Rim-Shot!! (YouTube)
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The point is we now cover viagra but not contraceptives and conservatives are fighting legislatively and thru the courts to deny coverage, e.g. Hobby Lobby court case.
It is rare for johns to be arrested while arresting prostitutes and even rarer for their names to be published.
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Wait, so you’re using the demonization of a peaceful Muslim majority over terrorist acts committed by a small number to support generalizations about another group? WTF, lol. I’m not sure that reply does what it set out to, friend.
Having said that, I did like the second half and generally agree. Thankfully I’m not responsible enough to have kids of any gender!
Joke thief!
Yes, he was, he had to go to prison for it for a long time where his doting bride visits him wtih the kids. As for traveling the road, hit the bricks you PC androphobe.
You seem nice.
I’m a bleeding-heart liberal, but isn’t one of comedy’s principal functions transgression, the deliberate testing of boundaries? And usually testing those boundaries in performance on the fly?
That obviously doesn’t mean jokes can’t be genuinely wrong and offensive, but the context necessarily makes judging that complex and necessarily subjective. Sometimes a comedian who tells ass-holish jokes is portraying an asshole to make a point about assholes, and sometimes a comedian performing ass-holishness is in fact an asshole–but discerning one from the other is frequently inextricably subjective.
That doesn’t forgive everything a comedian does, but it certainly complicates judging it.
Employers hitting on employees, though, should carry a heavy presumption of inappropriateness, even in a comedy club.
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Dave, I think you are taking this way too personally. And see Richards comma Michael for your N-word example. Also, you can’t be everywhere at once. And since YOU’VE never witnessed it, doesn’t mean it’s not happening. And, I highly doubt your assertion that other comedians would police someone who did this, for the same reason as Whitney stated in her article: fear of being ostracized. So, I call bullshit on that one. If you truly do stand up for women comics, then all the power to you. Good job. Lastly, Ms. Rice is a very attractive woman. As someone who sits in between two women who would be considered highly attractive by male standards, I see how men, many of them executives, flock to their desks, and I hear all sorts of rude shit coming from their mouths. They give me that “bros before hoes” look, and I make sure I don’t reciprocate it. A few months back, I had to talk to HR, as a witness, because one of those men took it way too far. I had no issue selling him out, because I consider the woman a friend. Here is the sad part, it was only until I, a man, validated her story, that it was taken seriously. She confided in me that even HR was making her feel as if she brought this on herself. Sad. Really fucking sad. As someone who was raised by my mom and sister, and walked away from being raised a Muslim because I don’t care for the religions treatment of women, (Also, I’ve never bought into the concept of God) I don’t tolerate that shit. So, I have no doubt that she is telling the truth, because she has no reason to lie. I’ve seen this up close. It’s creepy…and that’s putting it mildly.
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Boy, comics have it tough! I had no idea.
Ass-grab is way out of bounds.
In a world where the most offensive Aristocrats joke is the gold standard, words shouldn’t be judged as harshly as they would in a conventional workplace if they are being delivered by your peers.
If it’s the boss or anyone in a position to affect your career advancement, same rules apply as anywhere else.
M’kay?
Then the phrasing should be something along the lines of “equality will be reached when we cover BOTH…as well as ED drugs” rather than fan the flames of an overhyped sex gender war.
And as a police reporter, I’d like to see your statistics on johns/prostitutes. I know our paper and our competition have been publishing the names of pimps and leaving out the employees unless they are also charged. Often, they are treated as victims.
I understand your theory on the sex trade, and it’s a powerful one, but I can only go by experience and what I’ve seen happen rather than what someone postulates.
It would be good if all cities do as yours however, that is not true in my city. There have been articles, seldom, where they threaten to publish names of the johns but I have not seen it happen.
First one was way funnier. Yours doesn’t even make any sense.
Oh… Really?
Referring to his “mother” and her “vagina” is slam-dunk funny?
What’s next on the list? Maybe denigrating the guy’s sister?
Too each their own there …
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Personally, I would go with the first part and leave the second part off.
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