misandry-mermaid:

Here’s how it goes:

You’re allowed to make jokes about anything that you want to.

But when 1/3 women will be sexually assaulted in their lifetimes, that’s 1/6th of the entire population. 1/6th of the population that will carry that fear, that trauma, around with them for the rest of their lives.

And you can make fun of that if you want to.

But you frequently make jokes about the survivors, not the rapists. You reinforce the idea that the survivors were asking for it, that they were pathetic, that they’re shrewish or weird or “lesbians in need of a lay”. You can reinforce rape all you want to.

The reason that the concept of speaking “truth to power” in comedy is so important is because comedy is supposed to provide the dissenting opinion when “power” is doing something messed up, or inappropriate.

But in this, comedians lock step with rapists, both mocking the women that have been victimized and then justifying the fact that they were entitled to do so. Comedians who joke about rape frequently aren’t speaking truth to power; they’re speaking for power, along with the power. That isn’t good comedy.

So you can say whatever you want. But I am going to keep pointing out that you are an awful, awful person and no matter what you say, or how you justify your point, I must remind you: you are attempting to argue that humor, at the expense of the safety of one out of 6 people in the room that you are talking to, doesn’t make you an “insensitive” person. You are trying to say that you, as a man, are entitled to stand up on a stage and make fun of women who were raped, by another man, and mock them without feeling guilt or being considered a bad person.

Guess what? You are entitled, you are insensitive, and you are a bad person. End of discussion.