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You can't say anything these days with out pissing somebody off..

z1ggy

z1ggy

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http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/16/opinion/burton-bruns-tosh/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

Future has-been Daniel Tosh attempted to quiet a heckler by asking and I paraphrase "wouldn't it be funny if five or six guys raped her". Has the author of this article heard of the song, Dance with The Devil, by Immortal Technique? The guy talks about raping his own mother and killing her in the song, but they cause a stink because some asshole can't keep her mouth shut at a comedy show?? Please.
 
Heard about this on the Carolla show.

You gotta be really dumb to take stuff that a comedian says to a heckler serious. Saying outrageous things is integral to Tosh's comedy. He doesn't mean it, and even if he did, his total purpose was to keep control of the audience while drawing a laugh, nothing more.
 
The best part is, he makes fun of gay's, handicap and says every other politically incorrect thing you could think of, yet..This is what gets him shit. Seriously, a super LOL to feminists.
 
z1ggy said:
Love the quote from GC. Man was a legend.
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The quote from Carlin was especially appropriate given that Carlin has a very famous bit called "Rape Can Be Funny." An excerpt:

Ohhh, some people don't like you to talk like that. Ohh, some people like to shut you up for saying those things. You know that. Lots of people. Lots of groups in this country want to tell you how to talk. Tell you what you can't talk about. Well, sometimes they'll say, well you can talk about something but you can't joke about it. Say you can't joke about something because it's not funny. Comedians run into that shit all the time. Like rape. They'll say, "you can't joke about rape. Rape's not funny." I say, "fuck you, I think it's hilarious. How do you like that?" I can prove to you that rape is funny. Picture Porky Pig raping Elmer Fudd. See, hey why do you think they call him "Porky," eh?
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Complete balderdash. Idiot should not be in a comedy club if she doesn't want to hear comedy. I'm no fan of Tosh, but good lord, this is utter nonsense. Gottfried got it right.

KT
 
i do not even like Tosh, but i don't see what the big deal is. waah he said something stupid, except people were paying him to say stupid shit, so wait wut? stupid thing to say, not funny, but panties in a bunch because someones panties are always in a bunch.

PS over 1/3rd of rape victims are men and men on men rape is a HUGE issue and probably the biggest driver of keeping men in check with the law. this article totally skirts over the that issue and again like most feminist garbage pieces turns something that is an atrocious act to do to anyone, into an atrocious act that men perpetuate on women. Absolutely disgusting writing.
 
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If this woman didn't like Tosh's act, she should have done the adult thing and left. I understand that some people don't like dark humor, and that's fine. Nobody is forcing you to watch his act. Going into the show, she should have know what he his act was like. It's not like this is out of the blue, because it's the same stuff as on Tosh.0. Instead she took the childish route and began heckling him, and got deservedly attacked for it. Tosh, as a darker comic, went for the most hurtful thing possible and now she's feigning offense. What this woman did was equivalent to disrupting a play or defacing a painting an artist is working on. Why we view it differently when it's a comic is beyond me. Comedy is an art form.

Of course the liberal media jumps on it and gets the left wing special interest groups all ornery. They're no different than the Conservative media and religious right in this regard. Two sides to the same coin. Both want to limit speech and artistic freedom because they are personally offended by it. Since it offends them, then it should offend everyone. That holier than thou attitude really pisses me off.

Is rape funny? Of course not. It's a horrible thing. Can a joke about rape be funny? Yes, definitely. As can jokes about death, suicide, drug abuse, murder, sexual deviance; which are all staples of black comedy. A lot of people enjoy that type of comedy. To act as though it's condoning rape, or promoting rape, or inciting the rape of this woman, or that Tosh is pro-rape is ludicrous. You wouldn't say Malcolm McDowel is pro-rape because he played a rapist in A Clockwork Orange, or that Kubrick is for having that scene in his movie? I can't get into Tosh's head but I seriously doubt he actually wants this woman should be attacked. You can't honestly pretend otherwise and keep a straight face.

What's sad is that other artists jump on board with the special interests instead of defending the freedom of expression of their fellow artists. If you don't draw the line on censorship somewhere, you will be next.
 
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jagec said:
I agree, it's completely disgusting. I mean, maggots hatch from EGGS, and they only eat DEAD flesh. WTF was the artist thinking?
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I agree... it's almost as disgusting as suggesting a girl should get gangraped by 5-6 men!

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I support Tosh's right to say what he said, but at the same time, I honestly don't know that there's anything most males (at least here in the US) have to constantly have on their minds to the same degree that females do the "specter" of rape. Thus, I can understand why the audience member was upset to the point that she said something.
 
z1ggy said:
You can't say anything these days with out pissing somebody off..
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The difference is not that people are getting pissed of now - people always got pissed off/insulted. The difference is that is use to be that your reaction had to be reasonable (objective standard) for anyone to take it seriously.

For some reason, now, if anyone is pissed/offended (subjective standard), people give it weight.

It is an impossible standard to live with. We need to start ignoring the overly-sensitive.

MotionMan
 
Whisper said:
I support Tosh's right to say what he said, but at the same time, I honestly don't know that there's anything most males (at least here in the US) have to constantly have on their minds to the same degree that females do the "specter" of rape. Thus, I can understand why the audience member was upset to the point that she said something.
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KT
 
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