Wait till she finds out that Dane Cook suggested she kill herself. kok & Now, over forty years since | stopped presenting my concept about a rape-in of legislators’ wives, | sent the first draft of this piece around to several friends, and | was particularly touched by a response from Emma Cofod, production manager at my then-publisher, Soft Skull Press:
“Thank you for sharing this! | truly appreciate your thoughts here. | read about this woman's complaint last week, and the whole event turned my stomach. What Tosh did was personally threatening, which is not OK. But even though! fall neatly into the feminist camp, | think your original joke is hilarious—within context, and coming from a comedian whose philosophy | identify with. Color me conflicted.”
| think that kind of conflict is healthy. And then there was Louis C.K.’ s appearance on Jhe Daily Show. This is what he told Jon Stewart between interruptions:
“If this [controversy about Tosh] is like a fight between comedians and bloggers--hyperbole and garbage comes out of those two places, just uneducated, unfettered--it’ s also a fight between comedians and feminists, because they’ re natural enemies, because, stereotypically
speaking, feminists can’ t take a joke, and on the other side, comedians
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