Feisty dynamic duo Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson’s popular web series was blessed with an enormous push and support from feminist comedian Amy Poehler, resulting in one of the freshest and most talked about out series to have graced our living rooms: Broad City. Distributed by Comedy Central, the half-hour an episode series deflated the absurd belief that “women aren’t funny,” by providing hilariously witty dialogue revolving around scenarios as simple as being locked out of your apartment. Playing an exaggerated version of themselves, Ilana and Abbi became the poster girls of modern feminism and 20-somethings trying to navigate the harsh realities of a failing job market, a tech-obsessed generation and the complications that comes with sex as a single woman.

Wednesday’s Season 2 premiere was anticipated by many who could not wait to see what new fiddle the two would find themselves in, and though the episode did not disappoint at a comedy stance point, it did shed light on a complex topic: consensual sex.

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Single Bed, Bath & Beyond devotee Abbi is having sex with a sweaty Seth Rogen who made a guest appearance as “Male Stacy,” as Ilana and Abbi referred him to as. Clearly enjoying the sexual encounter he is partaking, the heavy New York summer heat becomes too much for him and he passes out to Abbi’s surprise.

Of course Abbi confides to Ilana about this embarrassing sexual experience, to which Ilana can’t help but ask if Abbi finished or not. Abbi in horror realizes that she did, but that is because she was unaware Male Stacy had passed out into a little later. This terrifies Abbi who wonders whether she “raped Male Stacy,” rationalizing it by insisting, “he really wanted it,” to which Ilana responds with “That is literally what all (rapists) say.”

This exchange took maybe 2 to 3 minutes of the show’s 20 minute run (not including commercials), but it was enough to leave an impression on viewers such as Slate writer Amanda Hess who said the following:

The sex on Broad City is completely untethered from all the typical social and physical consequences that our culture promises to sexually active women. When sex goes awry, Abbi and Ilana are the victims of their own idiosyncrasies, not male aggression. The women are consumed exclusively with what they want, and never what men do. The lesson Abbi learns from taking advantage of a passed-out Stacy is that she needs an air conditioner in her apartment to prevent guys from passing out again.

Hess’ analysis has truth in it; when things go wrong sexually for Abbi or Ilana (there was an episode where Abbi had a condom stuck in her vagina for four days), it is because of awkward circumstances, not because they were forced physically or mentally by a male counterpart.

What Hess doesn’t realize though, is the universe of sexual openness Abbi and Illana have so successfully created in their show also parodies what men have gotten away with for years. The word “consent” continues to battle it out with men who have taken advantage of unconscious women, or who refuse to accept an answer like “no.” As Ilana so boldly put it, men do use the “she wanted it” excuse to mask their real agenda, which is them getting what they want however they can.

Rape can’t be taken lightly because questions such as, “Well, did she want it?” overshadow the actual crime. The same can apply to the cat-calling Ilana engages in when she smacks the butt of a man on the subway. This scene is arguably the core of liana and Abbi ‘s message which is: Yes, it may look funny that I, as a woman, am involved in such masculine actions as these, but does this make it acceptable just because I am not a man? Do you understand how backwards it is to find it odd that I, as a woman, would do this?

Season 2 of Broad City successfully launched a comically masked debate into the minds of viewers who’ve possibly pondered over the same topics addressed, but could not brave up to discuss it openly. Abbi and Ilana’s knack of dressing complex topics as witty TV gold that has audiences scratching their heads going, “I never thought about it like that,” is what will keep female viewers hooked and reassured, knowing with full confidence that these two will represent female sex and social issues the right way.

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