CEO, Comedy Central: Take Daniel Tosh off the air

[4th law of robotics]

38. Yelling out things during his routine is not disrupting?

I remember a certain senator who merely said "you lie". Just two little words and people here were ready to start a civil war.

A short sentence can certainly be disruptive.

Here's another group of people refusing to laugh about male rape because that's totally not funny: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwrel&NR=1&v=LLWlBgj0uOc

If he was telling a "don't drop the soap" joke and this woman objected, would that be okay with you?

She'd still be heckling a comedian with the predictable results.

But on the issue of shower/prison rape jokes, how does dismissing this incident help address the problem of popular acceptance of shower/prison rape jokes?

Because those aren't going anywhere, ever. They are permanently ingrained. So I really don't feel the need to cry with this woman because she was so offended.

If anything, building public support for this woman would be a positive step towards educating people that rape jokes just aren't funny regardless of the target.

Except that raping women has remained a taboo subject since . . when? Forever roughly? Whereas raping men has been comedy fodder for roughly as long.

It is unlikely to change. The double standard is well understood and accepted.

Some treatment will always be acceptable if done to a male, verboten if done to a female. Consider all the people on here mindlessly supporting MGM because religion says it must be so.