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Dave Chappelle accuses SNL of banning him from telling anti-trans jokes in his monologue (www.lgbtqnation.com)

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

If they did, I applaud them.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Yes, this is a flex for SNL.

George Carlin said it better, but good comedy is punching up, not punching down. What we have now is multi-millionaires like Cappelle and Rogan competing to gargle the balls of multi-billionaires while calling it "entertainment".

[–] [email protected] 13 points 14 hours ago

Yup, you can joke about anything, but you gotta do it well, and not base it in bullshit like that.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Eh, Carlin also famously defended jokes about sexual assault, so maybe he's not the best role model for comedians punching up...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Fair point

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I think you are referring to this bit:

I can prove to you that rape is funny. Picture Porky Pig raping Elmer Fudd. See? Hey, why do you think they call him "Porky," eh? I know what you're going to say. "Elmer was asking for it. Elmer was coming on to Porky. Porky couldn't help himself, he got a hard-on, he got horny, he lost control, he went out of his mind."

A lot of men talk like that. A lot of men think that way. They think it's the woman's fault. They like to blame the rape on the woman. Say, "She had it coming, she was wearing a short skirt." These guys think women ought to go to prison for being cock teasers: don't seem fair to me.

Don't seem right, but you can joke about it.

I read the entire bit. I do think he is roasting the rapey jocks, men who always deflect blame for their actions, the whole time.

Especially for the 90's where people idolized the Michael Douglas type rapey finance Bros this is (still) punching up.

If this is what you were talking about, can't follow your logic.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Picture Porky Pig...

Based on my experience with sexual assault victims (and we all know far too many), I see Elmer crying, traumatized, cut off from support (true for any victim, but especially so for cis men and transgendered people), having to deal with a screwed up sense of self worth, and having to worry about if Porky has any STDs. Small mercy that he doesn't have to worry about getting pregnant, especially in the current political climate in the US.

See?

I do not.

I see somebody that's bringing up traumatic experiences that a large portion of the population has experienced and saying it can be funny regardless of him lambasting rape culture in the same breath. "Sorry that happened to you, Alex, that's awful, how it changes how people view you is awful, but you have to admit it's a little funny if you think about it." It's not the logic that you have to follow, it's the empathy.