July 12th, 2012 around 9:23am
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[TW: Rape] List of Comedians defending Tosh - UPDATED

amaditalks:

List of Comedians that are being unapologetically dense about this issue:

  • Jim Norton (“Why is it okay for an actor to play a rapist, but not for a comic to joke about it?”)
  • Louis C.K. (“your show makes me laugh every time I watch it. And you have pretty eyes”) 
  • Patton Oswalt (“Wow, @danieltosh had to apologize to a self-aggrandizing, idiotic blogger. Hope I never have to do that (again).”)
  • Dane Cook (“If you journey through life easily offended by other peoples words I think it’s best for everyone if you just kill yourself”)
  • Anthony Jeselnik (“An offended audience member repeating a comedian’s act from memory is worse than, literally, anything”)
  • Stevie Ryan (“Daniel Tosh can’t make a rape joke but Eminem can have hit songs about it? PS. AIDS jokes are funnier”)
  • Doug Stanhope (“You’re hilarious. If you ever apologize to a heckler again I will rape you. #FuckThatPig”) — wow.
  • Opie Radio (“To all the idiots! I completely support Daniel Tosh being a comic in a comedy club! Even if it means rape jokes!”)
  • Kumail Nanjiani (“Two things about the Tosh thing. 1. It was said in the moment and not a pre written thing. 2. If you think he’s pro rape you’re an idiot.”) — this one, though. as though it makes it better that it was an off-the-cuff comment. don’t you see how revealing that is about him and his values?
  • Sarah Beattie (“calm down about rape jokes everyone’s been raped at least once by george lucas”)
  • Doug Benson (“Maybe Daniel Tosh was confused about where he was. He wouldn’t have offended anyone over at the Rape Factory. #ThisTweetWillBeDeletedSoon”)

Just so you have a list and can see how horrible people are all in one place

Add:

  • Rob Delaney (linked approvingly to Sarah Beattie’s tweet quoted above and said “It’s unwise to rush to judgement. Unless you’ve read something DICTATED to a COOKIE BLOGGER. Then, sing your song, internets!”)
  • Michael Ian Black from “The State” etc. (replied to Kumail Nanjiani saying “What kind of rape? Straight-up rape or funny rape? Because he might think a funny rape was funny.”)
  • Jesse Thorn of MaximumFun.org & Hodgman’s podcast (“It’s anyone’s right to be offended at a comedy show, but it’s important to comics to be able to try stuff, including trying to push limits.”) who’s also blocking anyone who @ replies him on the topic without any engagement
  • alleged comedian Dan Dodge (@TheOnlyDanDodge, Twitter bio says “failed comic”) who personally made a rape threat almost identical to Tosh’s against me after some dudebro fan poked him to come comment

Reblogging myself to add nice white lady comic Chelsea Peretti to the list, whose succinct comment was “PRO TOSH BRO.” She tried to qualify that with saying there was some long explanation that couldn’t fit on Twitter. Whatever, Chelsea. (A couple of hours after that, she posted a photo of a fat black woman on a plane and called her Madea, so you know, not exactly an upstanding human being in any fashion.)

And also asking: how about the comics who are speaking out against this? I know of Jamie Kilstein, Hari Kondablu and Dave Holmes. Who else?

(Source: The Huffington Post)

around 12:48am
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[TW: Rape] List of Comedians defending Tosh

List of Comedians that are being unapologetically dense about this issue:

  • Jim Norton (“Why is it okay for an actor to play a rapist, but not for a comic to joke about it?”)
  • Louis C.K. (“your show makes me laugh every time I watch it. And you have pretty eyes”) 
  • Patton Oswalt (“Wow, @danieltosh had to apologize to a self-aggrandizing, idiotic blogger. Hope I never have to do that (again).”)
  • Dane Cook (“If you journey through life easily offended by other peoples words I think it’s best for everyone if you just kill yourself”)
  • Anthony Jeselnik (“An offended audience member repeating a comedian’s act from memory is worse than, literally, anything”)
  • Stevie Ryan (“Daniel Tosh can’t make a rape joke but Eminem can have hit songs about it? PS. AIDS jokes are funnier”)
  • Doug Stanhope (“You’re hilarious. If you ever apologize to a heckler again I will rape you. #FuckThatPig”) — wow.
  • Opie Radio (“To all the idiots! I completely support Daniel Tosh being a comic in a comedy club! Even if it means rape jokes!”)
  • Kumail Nanjiani (“Two things about the Tosh thing. 1. It was said in the moment and not a pre written thing. 2. If you think he’s pro rape you’re an idiot.”) — this one, though. as though it makes it better that it was an off-the-cuff comment. don’t you see how revealing that is about him and his values?
  • Sarah Beattie (“calm down about rape jokes everyone’s been raped at least once by george lucas”)
  • Doug Benson (“Maybe Daniel Tosh was confused about where he was. He wouldn’t have offended anyone over at the Rape Factory. #ThisTweetWillBeDeletedSoon”)

Just so you have a list and can see how horrible people are all in one place

Add:

  • Rob Delaney (linked approvingly to Sarah Beattie’s tweet quoted above and said “It’s unwise to rush to judgement. Unless you’ve read something DICTATED to a COOKIE BLOGGER. Then, sing your song, internets!”)
  • Michael Ian Black from “The State” etc. (replied to Kumail Nanjiani saying “What kind of rape? Straight-up rape or funny rape? Because he might think a funny rape was funny.”)
  • Jesse Thorn of MaximumFun.org & Hodgman’s podcast (“It’s anyone’s right to be offended at a comedy show, but it’s important to comics to be able to try stuff, including trying to push limits.”) who’s also blocking anyone who @ replies him on the topic without any engagement
  • alleged comedian Dan Dodge (@TheOnlyDanDodge, Twitter bio says “failed comic”) who personally made a rape threat almost identical to Tosh’s against me after some dudebro fan poked him to come comment

(Source: The Huffington Post)

February 4th, 2012 around 9:44pm
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[TW: Homophobia, Assholery] Dan Savage Fails Again, Still Gets Fellated By Fans

So let me get this right.

Dan Savage:

- tells this girl a flat out gender essentialist lie about women’s sexuality being more fluid than men’s.

- says that he knows this lie to be true from his experience, which translates to “I know some women who said they were lesbians but they married men.” Never mind that this isn’t his experience, never mind that identifying as a lesbian has nothing to do with who you marry. (I know three lesbians who are/have been married to cis men. It doesn’t change the fact that they are lesbians.)

- tells this girl who is already in a Catholic convent school being taught by nuns to just tough it out if her parents force her into reparative therapy, as if it’s nothing more than a challenging chemistry course or an exercise boot camp and not an emotionally and spiritually abusive and debilitating horror which has driven who knows how many kids (and adults) to self-doubt, self-harm and even suicide, which he should know as the alleged font of all (cis white male) gay knowledge.

- fails, even after learning this girl’s location, to even try to suggest even one actual resource for her, anywhere that she could turn to find help to avoid being forced into abusive “counseling” or even just someone she could talk to. Apparently his Google was broken.

- publishes all of this massive failure.

- lets commenters do the work and come through with queer support resources in the girl’s location, rather than leaving her with the glib suggestion to tough it out and hang on because… Oh, right, because “it gets better.”

- and the pig still get lauded and praised and tweeted about as a hero. As if he did something. As if he helped. As if he didn’t lie to the girl. As if he didn’t give her potentially fatal advice to just grin and bear her homophobic parents’ abuse.

A hero.

What the hell does this man have to do for people to recognize him for the dangerous asshole that he is? Burn someone’s house down? Send a hurting, scared kid a weapon? Just go ahead and counsel self harm because the endorphin rush provides “relief?” What?

I really need to know.

December 4th, 2011 around 10:25pm
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Call to Action: Demand Action from the Cleveland PD for Alison Lancaster

Trigger warning for transphobic violence and injustice from law enforcement

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On Saturday, November 19th, trans woman Alison Lancaster was attacked at the W. 65th & Madison Rapid Transit stop in Cleveland, Ohio. Three teenagers ambushed Alison at the bottom of the stairs and physically attacked her, punching and kicking her even after she fell to the ground. As the teens attacked Alison physically, they screamed transphobic and homophobic slurs and insults at her. When they ran off, they stole her bag and her mobile phone.

Surveillance cameras at the station? Not functioning. The emergency call box at the station? Also not functioning.

Alison did eventually get help and was treated for her injuries from the attack at Cleveland Metro Hospital. But the Cleveland PD officer who was dispatched to the hospital put on the official report that there were no elements of a hate crime, even though he asked Alison, and she informed him of the slurs hurled at her as she was beaten.

Alison suffered serious injuries including two black eyes and cuts that required stitches. Additionally, she lost a checkbook and debit cards, jeopardizing her financially.

Though the FBI is now investigating the hate crime aspect of this attack, the Cleveland PD stonewalled Alison and are still responsible for investigating the theft. A few days after the attack, she used T-Mobile’s GPS tracker to locate her stolen phone which was being used, but when she called the police, they wouldn’t take the information from her. Even though knowing the location of the phone could have led the police to one or more of her assailants, Alison was blown off.

The police also refused to assign a detective to Alison’s case, telling her that she would have to wait until a detective “chose to take an interest” in investigating a blatantly premeditated assault, robbery and theft. After a full week, Alison still wasn’t sure which, if any, detective on Cleveland PD was officially assigned to investigate the crime committed against her because the one she’s had contact with has advised her that he’s taking leave for three weeks. They’re still not being forthcoming with her.

Additionally, the Cleveland Transit Authority is not being forthcoming about why security equipment at this station was in such disrepair, or if surveillance cameras at other stations might reveal footage of the trio before or after their attack on Alison.

None of this is acceptable.

CALL TO ACTION: I join with We Have Had Enough Ohio in asking readers to call:

(216) 623-5000 - Michael McGrath, Cleveland Chief of Police

To ask “What are you doing to seek justice for Alison Lancaster? Why isn’t the department actively investigating the hate crime against her?”

(216) 664-3990 - Frank Jackson, Cleveland Mayor

To ask: “Why is your police department not training officers to recognize and respond proactively to hate crimes in your city?”

(216) 566-5227 — Cleveland Rapid Transit Authority complaint line

To ask: “Why aren’t your survellience cameras at W. 65th & Madison repaired yet? What will it take for your customers safety to become a priority for you?”

Hate crimes are everyone’s concern, no matter where you live. Please take a moment to advocate on Alison’s behalf and feel free to pass this on.

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