She can still strangle bears with this scarf though, right? RIGHT?!

OMG! Sounds like funsies, I'm there!

But where does she lump all men together, or use sweeping generalisations? She actually specifically notes that it's not an address to all men, with that asterisk at the top, AND that she's speaking figuratively (i.e. as one kind of woman, to another kind of man - evidently not you, as you defensively point out).

Yeah it totally would be, if you weren't wildly misrepresenting everything she said. She says "I don't believe that "rape jokes" should be a completely unregulated market"...and goes on to coherently argue why. Not quite sure what part of that's confusing you. Eh well, I tried.

Think you're the one making the illogical leaps, my friend - she's just suggesting people coming from a position of power should exercise a little sensitivity by not making people who already have a hard time in life (e.g. rape victims) feel shitty with their supposed 'comedy' - it's a basic humanity thing.

Again, how is your opinion 'fact'? It isn't. ACTUAL FACT

I think Lindy is hilarious. But thanks for stating your subjective opinion as fact. That doesn't suggest *at all* that you might be full of unjustified white male privilege.

She argues the merits of the position more than fully and eloquently enough above, but no point in reiterating if you've not even bothered to read…

Down with Disney, up with Studio Ghibli, who are far more representative of the whole gamut of awesome girl/womanhood, I say!

Potentially a little off-topic, but how do other women react in comedy clubs where (usually white males, it has to be said) make misogynistic jokes? I love comedy clubs, but I hate that kind of lazy 'shit on those already shat on by society' "humour". Anyone know a great heckle for this kind of thing, or should you…

People shouldn't provoke good men into resentment? THAT'S what you got from this article? Really?

Mmm, yeah, good one. Because someone with Lindy's background - which she freakin details above - not to mention MOST OF THE WRITERS/COMMENTS ON HERE, who are chiefly women clearly don't have a sense of humour. *epic eyeroll*

THIS. THIS, A THOUSAND TIMES THIS.

I was vaguely following the Sam Morril thing via Bitch Media, but just exhausted by the same old lazy 'yeah but freedom of speeeeech' "argument".

Thank you Lindy for always writing such thoughtful, eloquent responses to why this offensive bro-centric idiocy masquerading as 'comedy'…

I once did an unpaid internship (for a friend's aunt, sadly) in an Indie film company. One of the owning producers was just THE WORST. Amongst other atrocities:

She screamed at me for being unable to get a free replacement phone after having water-damaged her own phone, despite having not insured it - and made me call…

No worries, I'm a Londoner. So I think our equivalent is found mainly in Essex. A (normal) friend of mine recently moved near there for work purposes. She said a colleague told her that her convincing orange glow was achieved at an establishment called the 'Costa del Sunbed' (whut? I don't even...).

Exactly! - considering other storylines, like her and Cam transforming that wasteground into a baseball pitch, it's absurd that she's otherwise given 'tries but fails, so immediately gives up' arcs for more serious work-related storylines. It irks me that they repeatedly afford Cam 'success initially perceived as…

That was exactly the episode I was thinking of too! So frustrating that they push that 'women best off in the home' tripe, but simultaneously made a point, particularly in that episode, of suggesting that being a 'stay at home Mum' isn't enough once your kids are school age (nor apparently is successfully flipping a…

You have a beautifully lyrical way of describing aesthetic horrors *nightmare time*

That is by far and away my new favourite word.
Thank you, good woman or sir.

Well this doesn't look half bad for a J-Lo driven production. That's a nice surprise.

And thanks for the call-out on Modern Family too - I love that show, but find it fundamentally depressing that it's supposed to be groundbreakingly representative of more modern familyhood, yet continually presents the women as…

Can't believe this isn't more of a problem where I live in the UK, to be honest. Most of us are so pasty by the time sun comes round again, we could definitely pass for corpses.