Thanks but no thanks. I don't want your support. Female? Hysterical? SJW? You seem like an asshole. The joke IS male=rape. Go away. I will never be on your team.

They aren't trying to be South Park really is the prefect way to sum it up. Because they really, really are not. I don't always love every choice this show makes, but I totally respect its comedy and character first approach to writing.

Shit. It's actually Khonani. I didn't notice it autocorrected.

It's called Konami.

To illustrate my point about the show not taking itself seriously, let me expand on a comment from Jean Luc Lemur below (above?):

I find Portlandia boring and tedious mostly.

I did, too.

I wish Donna Bowman reviewed every show. This might require cloning.

My point was that I don't think the show itself wants us to take most of it's content seriously, as in the show does not consider itself a format for making an "important" statement, nor is that remotely the goal of the writers. A steady stream of gags and character development are, to my mind, obviously of far…

And I'm not comfortable blaming a show for making a clever, insightful joke just because some people are too ignorant to get it. Or even saying the show shouldn't have made this joke, which I enjoyed a lot. I'd say the same about Chris Rock's routine, which I don't even actually like, but am capable of recognizing…

I disagree. I think the heirarchy is what's funniest > character development > making a larger societal statement. And, honestly, I see this episode as way, way, way more about Kimmy's character growth than about making a societal statement. Because you know what? A 31-year-old (or is she 32 now?) woman should think…

Love that episode!

EXACTLY!!!!!!

Yeah this so clearly seems like good character development for Kimmy to me. She started out assuming that the people who speak most authoritatively are always right, because that's what immature people do, and ended up realizing that she is the only one who knows what's best for her, which is what mature people do.

The critique is that even men who "talk the talk" are still creepy jerks or Nice Guys who freak out at women when denied access to the sex they think they "deserve" for "doing everything right."

I hate to break it to you, no wait, I don't, but t'was ever thus.

This.

No, it's "even dudes who think they are woke still feel entitled to women's bodies and lash out when they are denied." That shit happens at every age. This guy just happened to be a college student, because that's where Kimmy spends her time.

I guess I don't see why it is Tina Fey's fault if a certain group of people are too ignorant to understand her joke about rape culture's pervasiveness. Does she need to pitch her humor to the lowest common denominator so that there can be no one left out of getting her intent?

Well that's on your roommate being an asshole, not on Tina Fey.