I hear you, but I think a lot of comedians make jokes about their past beliefs and behaviors – if they didn’t have a new, more mature understanding of what was wrong before, they wouldn’t be ready to make jokes about it – and/or things which might be considered crimes (drug use, for example) but which don’t have actual victims. Joking in the present tense about committing a crime against someone…that’s what they’ve decided to build their set around?
Comedy is a form of public confession. Pay attention to what they’re confessing, and what tense they’re using.
When somebody signs up for an account specifically to complain about how “this type of thing doesn’t belong on the site” and claims they “have been a reader since the very beginning” and yet that person seems to have no knowledge of the type of content regularly posted on the site (seriously - BB posts about rape culture and misogyny and women’s issues ALL THE TIME, anybody who’s read the site for more than a week could tell you that), you can understand that some people might believe that this is a drive by driving trollies by your typical MRA asshole - since these are the same types of claims made by all such drive-by trollies. But hey, you can keep sticking to your guns if you want.
AUM was a product of the scientists at ELF— the Erisian Liberation Front— and shared by them with the JAMs. An extract of hemp, boosted with RNA, the “learning” molecule, it also had small traces of the famous “Frisco Speedball”— heroin, cocaine, and LSD. The effect seemed to be that the heroin stilled anxiety, the RNA stimulated creativity, the hemp and acid opened the mind to joy, and the cocaine was there to fit the Law of Fives. The delicate balance created no hallucinations, no sense of “high”— just a sudden spurt in what Hagbard Celine liked to call “constructive gullibility.”
Thing is, I can think of many comedians who build their careers out of offending people. I don’t find it funny, I wish they’d go away, but neither do I think it reflects on their private life. Cosby never really entertained me very much, it seems quite plausible that he’s guilty, and it would be a refreshing change if for once a famous well liked guy got nailed for crimes against women.
And yet, there’s some over the top humor I really enjoy, that if taken literally would have me convicted of thought crime, and have the comedian jailed for worse.
The whole thing makes me squirm. But if jokes about killing your kids and dosing your date are going to be condemned, I’d like to condemn them for being in poor taste, not being a window into the mind of the perpetrator. If the joke is a crime, then anyone who laughes at the joke is an assesory to the crime, and that’s not good for women, it’s not good for civil discourse, it’s not good for anyone but the finger-pointers.
And why did it struck you? Did you even wonder why? Another man dismisses the topic of rape as if it’s not something he or anyone should be interested in, and you expect me to be nice to you? Nah.
