audiences to enormous human suffering. Internet outcry is encouraging,
but popular media needs to push back too.”
And the original blogger posted another message:
“My friend and | wanted to thank everyone for there /s/c/ support and for getting this story out there. We just wanted everyone to know what Daniel Tosh had done and if you didn’ t agree then to stop following him. My friend is surprised to have gotten any form of an apology and doesn’ t wish to press any further charges against [him].” What? Press charges? Rape is a crime. Rape jokes aren’ t. They are the risk of free speech. The blog concluded, “She does plan on returning to comedy shows in the future, but to see comedians that she’ s seen before or to at least look up artists before going to their shows.”
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:
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