That Daniel Tosh stuff is old news by now, but I like my friend’s Tumblr response to it. Personally, I hate it when people who have never experienced any kind of sexual assault talk about it in a knowing manner or explain it away or joke about it, as if they knew at all what they are talking about. Or they say, “Wouldn’t it be funny?…” and their comedian buddy friends are all like, yeah, that’s hilarious, why is everyone so butthurt?
Wouldn’t it be funny if five men raped Daniel Tosh and then he tried to file a police report about it but no one believed his account of it because they all provided alibis for one another and they were good upstanding members of the community?
Wouldn’t if be funny if Daniel Tosh was followed…
A few months ago a friend of mine asked me if I consider myself a feminist, and responded with uncomprehending outrage when I said that I did not. There were a lot of us in that conversation, so it was hard for me to explain my position in the ensuing crossfire. My friend was concerned that we…