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Chick schtick

By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN  |  October 22, 2008

Sara Faith Alterman is an equal-opportunity giggler. She can be reached at salterman@phx.com.

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Re: Chick schtick
This is very interesting and revealing: "Some, like Boston comedian Bethany Van Delft, think it’s not the concept but the context that made Bernhard’s material so controversial. “Bernhardt’s words were irresponsible — not as a comedian, but as a woman. . . . .If she’d wished gang rape on John McCain, I would laugh.”   So, Ms Van Delft thinks that raping a woman is never acceptable but that raping a man, especially brutally, as in a gang rape, is funny.  Right here and now in the era of finally raised awareness about rape, in the era of AIDS, Ms Van Delft would yuk it up, because it happened to, like, you know, a man. Ha, ha!!
Ms Van Delft, let me advise you that raping a man, even if he normally bottoms in anal sex, is NOT ONE IOTA MORE ACCEPTABLE than raping a woman who normally engages in vaginal sex.  Rape is rape, an act of violence, not something out there for your amusement.  Your remark is offensive, and indefensible.  
By DesignerBlog on 10/23/2008 at 9:16:11

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