08 12 / 2009
Comedy, or lack thereof.
Tonight, I went to a bar. U31 in North Park, an interesting joint. There was an African-American on stage who in the hour we were there, told “jokes” about the following subjects:
- Rape
- Threesomes
- Racism
- Homophobia
Literally every joke, one after another, was pretty goddamn horrifying. This is comedy? Any time he referred to women, they were “bitches”. Anytime he talked about white people, it was looking down on them. He talked about his own homophobia, and about gay people over and over again in a not-positive sort of way. He mentioned having a threesome with two girls - one he didn’t care about and just wanted to “impregnate” and the other who had “big ol’ titties and a big ass” that he wanted to date because she was actually hot.
It was a feminists nightmare. Being that I’m recently identifying feminist, I am noticing this stuff everywhere I go over the last few months and have really had my eyes opened to the kind of terrible discrimination, objectification, and bigotry that goes on around us. And this is comedy?! Women in the audience were laughing their asses off, while this guy was saying the difference between a normal guy and a ‘rapist’ is that the rapist is PERSISTENT. People LAUGHED at this.
What. the. fuck. Luckily, we bailed after our first beer and moved to a new place where we could enjoy each other’s company without talking over homophobic misogynistic bullshit.
