The comments on this are totally depressing - the Jez 'community' can be so vile sometimes. When I started reading in 2008 the comment community was little and lots of fun - very funny, lots of anecdote-swapping and actually lead to a couple IRL friendships. Come on folks, stop searching subtext of every freekin thing…

There's a big difference between doing a talk show (which is part of her job) and trying to go about your fucking day. Just because you are in the spotlight for part of your life doesn't mean you owe the world all of your time. Your reasoning makes no sense, sorry.

I think we might have reached a break-through. tyura thinks the PSA above is the product of some feminist ideology rather than a White House sponsored PSA to support its latest legislation. So, he seems to think that the PSA actually reflects a feminist ideology about men being the only rapists, you know, regardless…

I'm seeing a lot of people not digging on the wives, sisters, daughters portion, but I don't see it as patriarchal so much as the nature of language. The ad is intended for men, and about sexual violence against women. These are the words referring to female relatives.

The OSA can't insinuate that "all men do X" because there are men saying things about not doing X. You're off the rails, mate.

There is no feminist ideology that only men rape.

Is the omission of sexual assault on males perhaps because the vast majority of sexual assaults are cismales assaulting cisfemales?

For me, it is awesome. I really did not think this would ever become a national PSA. I am angry a PSA is required, but think it's awesome that men are speaking to other men on the issue.

This is the most hyperbolic reaction I've ever seen. Heh. Welcome to the spiral of irony.

Cue the idiots making up bullshit reasons why this isn't awesome in 3...2...1...

"Fuck em if they can't take a joke" is a mantra of mine. Glad I'm not alone in that.

Wow. So comedy about basically any topic is acceptable until the victim speaks through their publicist, and then it's serious? You laugh or you don't, but speech and the freedom of it - is priceless. Sorry, but I'm with Joan here. It's a fucking joke.

Jesus christ, leave the comics alone. The finding humor in dark places is half the job description for being a professional comedian. This is basically the exact same as the Patton Oswalt vs Salon debacle. If you didn't find the joke funny, too bad. It wasn't made to offend you, it was (shockingly) made to make an…

but that would require thinking, instead of just jumping on the knee-jerk, pearl-clutchy 'i'm offended! bandwagon.

maybe hipsters are unfamiliar with comedy, but comedy is based on the comparison or contrast between two ideas that creates a friction or cognitive dissonance that our brains recognize as funny. Here, Rivers is comparing living in her daughter's lavish guest room to the hellish conditions of The cleveland kidnapping…

"But I have little respect for anyone who has a show criticizing and shaming people for what they wear"

I suspect she means "I've read what they went through", as in she's not ignorant, not "I've been there too" or some similar claim of special insight into what they went through.

You know she's not saying, "I can perfectly picture what those women went through as though it had happened to me". She's saying "I know" to mean "I am aware".

Oh, brother...

Finding the most inappropriate, horrible, and shocking thing to make a joke about has ALWAYS been Joan Rivers' shtick.