According to Slate staff writer Amanda Hess, rape is “hilarious,” so long as it’s a girl raping a guy.
Her article entitled “There Was a Rape Scene on ‘Broad City,’ and It Was Hilarious,” Hess wrote,
“A few minutes into Wednesday night's season two premiere of Comedy Central’s Broad City—starring comedy duo Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer as the wacky, winkingly fictionalized BFFs 'Abbi' and 'Ilana'—Abbi rapes a guy. It’s summer in New York, and when Abbi finally gets her date Stacy (played by guest star Seth Rogen) to stop cooking fajitas over a hot stove and have sweaty sex with her, he passes out from the heat with her on top—and she keeps going until she’s finished. The next day, when Abbi recounts the episode to Ilana, she informs Abbi that she's totally a rapist, then riffs on the idea—'You know, I’ve never been to this neighborhood before, but I’m not scared because I’m with a stone cold rapist'—until she circles around to a justification: 'Hey, it’s OK. It’s reverse rapism. You are raping rape culture. Yes!'"
She went on to praise the show for apparently turning traditional gender roles upside down:
“Rachel Syme ... writes that ‘young, cosmopolitan women’ became obsessed with Broad City ‘because they saw themselves, finally, on TV: Here were women getting blazed out of their minds, pulling off petty heists, fantasizing openly about getting and giving head, ditching work, smuggling drugs in their crevices, and dealing with each other’s sh-- (literally and figuratively).’ But in the alternate universe constructed between Jacobson and Glazer, women engage in activities that were previously unthinkable not just on television, but in life.”
Oh, activities like rape? You don’t say.
She even tweeted out how this rape scene made for a “triumphant return” of the Comedy Central TV series.
No filter.
Readers like myself didn't seem to find her tweet or article remotely amusing.
In a previous article, discussing a different show, Hess condemns a rape scene where a guy takes advantage of a girl.
“Reading just the dialogue of these two scenes, it’s easy to project that Adam was confused and that Natalia was unclear. But reading the context of the encounter, that interpretation is untenable. ‘No means no,’ but it is not the only measure of consent.”
Yes, “no means no.” But that applies to all cases.
There are no double standards when it comes to rape. There is no “reverse rape.” Rape is rape, and it is not funny.
H/T Twitchy