There have been times when I didn’t feel physically safe enough to set appropriate boundaries and felt like being coy and playful would let me get away faster and more safely. I had to protect my body first, feminism second in those instances because I was scared. It’s not a good feeling. Totally agree with you, if…

Got it. I didn’t know. Will dismiss.

She’s an experienced prosecutor and this is how you lead a hostile witness. It’s not showboating, it’s doing your due diligence on a committee when someone is clearly bullshitting you.

Omg please go away. You’re embarrassing yourself. Out of all the things you could respond to, you choose to focus on defending men. You’re equating women being lumped in as sluts, which is a real thing with real consequences, with men being lumped in together which has had historically ZERO consequences for men. It’s…

Oh god.

Miss me with your “not all men” bullshit.

Go fuck yourself. If you see yourself in “men are awful” then you are one of those men.

Action figures would probably be “goofy but, sure, why not” while American doll would be like “abort! Abort! Abort!”

But also, what if she did want to go home and have sex with him, and changed her mind when she saw his doll collection or something? The idea that if we start down a path with a man we can’t change our minds is fucking gross. If I start eating a pizza and hate it, do I need to keep going? Do you shove it into my mouth…

Classic Chad Face.

The Venn diagram of people who voted for Trump and people who can afford Dolce & Gabbana is two circles.

Nope. Shrines are a leading indicator of Something Has Gone Wrong. I went out with a guy I thought was great, smart, kind, funny, good looking. Get to his place, and it’s a Yankees museum, down to the light switches and lamp shades. I tried, with Jeter looking down on us, but couldn’t.

What did you love This Much as a kid? I’ll go first: authentic Mets jacket, just like the players wore, that my dad got me when I was about 8. I wore it until the sleeves hit my elbows and the zipper didn’t have a prayer. RIP, best jacket ever.

If you can make a great one and make some kind of poignant point about persecution, my Jew ass ain’t gonna get offended. I hate to pull this card, but as a non-Jew, you just don’t get it, and it’s not your fault that you don’t. Let’s set aside Brooks because he certainly doesn’t speak for all Jews, nor do I, which is…

The Holocaust is 100% a shared Jewish experience and it’s laughable to deny that. Even if you don’t have family members who perished in it, as a Jew, you are very keenly aware that it’s not a distant memory, that it could definitely happen again, and that when shit gets uncomfortable, people often go find the Jews.…

Yeah, again, there’s this thing on Jez where you can’t possibly disagree with the crowd without being beaten over the head. I’m not sure a FORTY MINUTE VIDEO LOL is necessary here. Holocaust humor is a thing that exists. There are several proper uses for it. As a Jew, it helps me cope and compartmentalize what…

Gallows humor, and I mean graphic stuff, was common in the camps, and is used by survivors often enough that it’s not shocking. I think trying to separate Nazis from what they did is a ludicrous cop out. My grandmother used to joke about the food — it was so bad, and the portions were small. At its core, that’s a joke…

I know. Ice Cube had it right saying that some white people who think they’re especially down with black people or culture get a liiiiiittle too familiar. We have to remember that we don’t get that shared history and pain.

As a Jew, Holocaust jokes are a thing I grew up with, and the gallows humor is what allowed my family members who survived to get through life. Joan Rivers and my great-grandmother made them, and if you’re doing it well, I’d be ok with non-Jews doing it, as long as it’s, again, punching up, used well.

Mel Brooks has made a shitton of holocaust jokes, including one where he thanks Hitler for making him money. I have zero problem with this. The role of comedy is to make us uncomfortable, push boundaries, shine a light on dark matters, and most importantly, always punching up.