Good points all around and a agree with your issues with Chapelle. I love Jezebel but the Oppression Olympics point you made also applies to a lot of the stuff I see around here as well, from writers and commenters alike. I guess it all depends on the story. There are so many oppressed groups and we want to be…

He did the same thing 10 years ago on the chapelle show. Something about a jury selection sketch where he defends all the black celebrities convicted of crimes. I remember him talking about Michael Jackson: “he made thriller man! Thriller...” “so would you let your kids be alone with Michael jackson?” “Fuck no!” This…

He told a joke at the beginning about pitching a fake movie to a producer at the Oscars about a super hero who got his strength from touching a woman’s vagina. But since the hero was not attractive he couldn’t convince women to let him touch them once, very gently so he had to resort to rape to get his strength to…

Ill survive... Its your virtue signaling that ain’t a good look

I’ve made this argument on Jez to much (obvious) contention but really, I just don’t think comedy is for progressives. Modern progressives are too sensitive and go into viewing entertainment with a list of boxes to check for groups and subgroups and sub-subgroups that shouldn’t be “offended.”

How mature and brave of you. Does your arm get tired from patting yourself on the back for such heroism? I deplore the president but his saying “give him a chance” is not an admission of support. By no means deplorable enough to never listen to a historically great comic again.

I watched Spin last night, and Rich is leaving out a key part of the Cosby commentary - that being it was a callback to a joke done earlier in the show concerning a superhero who resorts to rape to maximize his “powers,” setting up a moral conundrum of “he rapes, but he saves lives.”

This wasn’t Andrew Dice Clay…

Yes, I found out later that it is. The gy’s real name is John Rayne Rivello.

It’s a slippery slope that the courts have historically wanted to avoid dealing with because the more you define what *can’t* be said, then the more you define what *can* be said ... and that idea is fundamentally antithetical to free speech.

Just like the “Bill Maher is a monster” article some weeks ago, a perfect example why feminists are thoroughly loathed by many people, including women.

Yeah, i’ve all ready (rightly) been taken to task on my shitty words. I still maintain that sending an epileptic trigger to a man with known photosensitive epilepsy rises to physical assault.

Well said.

This headline/framing is a depressing example of how all of us, even those that hate trump, have internalized his divisive, with-us-or-against-us rhetoric that nonsensically twists every story into a battle. And, like trump, it is selfish, shortsighted, and incredibly damaging - because it’s not only about whatever…

This could have been 2 different and as a result, valid posts. Now it just seems petty because the author doesn’t approve how the FBI apportions its resources.

For some reason, Eichenwald’s case spurred a different response

Thank you for this. The nazi fuck purposely sent a gif to an epileptic Jew with the hopes of triggering a seizure. That is assault and a hate crime.

I’m conflicted. I have photo sensitive epilepsy and I’m a feminist. I think doing both of these things is reprehensible but only one of these things has caused me to be hospitalized and lose my drivers license.

This was a gross headline.

“What [this person] did with his Twitter message was no different from someone sending a bomb in the mail”

Not a fan of this headline. Yeah, the FBI needs to step up their game on threats made against women online, but that doesn’t mean this investigation happening wasn’t important precedent. Someone found a new way to harm someone through the internet, in a way people hadn’t really been considering before. Want to cause…