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And because this is a Chappelle thread, it should be stated that he openly defends Louis CK and even attacked one of his accusers. It's attitudes like this from male comics like him which helps continue to make the world of comedy feel unsafe for women. Look at how few prominent male comics have spoke out against Louis CK winning a Grammy where he lies about his assault. It's shameful. Dave Chappelle Jokes That Louis C.K. Accuser Has a “Brittle Ass Spirit” in Netflix Special WWW.HOLLYWOODREPORTER.COM “You don’t know how to hang up a phone?” he said of a woman who claimed that the ‘Louie’ creator masturbated while on a phone call with her...

Also there is a lot of presumption by assuming cocaine was involved. On Jen Kirkman's newest album she actually tells about how CK approached her with this question from how she framed the story it didn't come across as drug-fueled at all. They had just sat down in a separate room at a bar when he asked the question. She thought the question was absurd so she misunderstood it as him testing out material on her, which is something comedians to to their peers all of the time. He seemed bothered that she wasn't picking up on the situation at all. She believes her naïveté at the time helped her because CK gets off on disgusting people and scaring people with his behavior. And then directly after a mutual friends walks up to them and he quickly pretends that he was just showing her pictures of his kids. And all of this happened when he was still married. Really disgusting and sick individual here. I think those outside of comedy don't fully understand the dynamics here. These weren't just women who looked up to him. These were women who were opening for his on the road. When you an opener the headliner is basically your boss. They chose to have you there, and they could also choose to let you go as well. Being a working comic is hard, and being a female comic, even harder. You have to take any work you can. They weren't allowing him to jerk just because he was a hero, they were allowing him to do it because they didn't want to lose any work.

If you have any trans friends in your life right now please let them know how much they mean to you. We are hurting and scared right now.

My mental health has really taken a hit this week from the accumulation of all the anti trans news in the last few weeks. I may have to take a break. It’s just all too much for me and I don’t always feel strong enough to handle it all. There are members of Congress literally labeling me and anyone who supports me a pedophile. What the fuck. I am so disgusted with the world the world right now. I try my best to be a good person and make the world a more accepting place and this is the shit I have to deal with in return? This is just all too much for me to handle.

Twitter has been invaluable for other queer and trans people to connect to each other in a world where we often feel alone and isolated. Destroying Twitter would be hard for a lot of marginalized groups.

That is a good point that I hadn’t considered.

This is why I actually respect him for stepping down from the Academy and don’t think it was just for show. There is, like, no incentive anymore to do the right thing and apologize. So much of our society are vindictive little brats who will never forgive under any circumstances. And another sizes me segment will look down at anyone who apologizes as weak. It’s actually a better career move at this point to never apologize and always double down.

Grant Gustin works for television, but does he have that movie star aura that will make him pop on the big screen? Mike Faist from West Side Story would make an excellent Flash.

I will only be okay with an edit button if they also include an easy to access edit history. And edited tweets need to be marked as edited.

Bruce has been joking about a cameo appearance too much for it to not actually happen. It will likely be something we weren't expecting, though.

You think a boss shouldn't be fired for asking their coworkers if he can masturbate in front of them? And that it's virtual signaling to think otherwise? I just wanna make sure I understand you correctly here.

I’m posting additional information about CK for those who haven’t come to that conclusion yet.

That's why I'm getting deja vu! I honestly had to double check to see if this wasn't a late April Fool's joke or some shit.

I feel like we’re getting trolled now.

We've been trying to warn cis queer people of this. The trans community is the canary in the gold mine. It was only a matter of time before the GOP started going after gay rights again, and sure enough we are experiencing Gay Panic 2.0 with the Don't Say Gay Bill in Florida. And critics of the bill are literally being labeled as "child groomers" on Fox News. Scary time to be living as a queer person, even more so as a trans educator in Florida.

Let’s not be pedantic and mansplain cancelation.

Like I said in either this thread or another thread about cancellation in comedy, "cancel culture" is deeply exaggerated. There are very few high profile cases of cancellations where it actually sticks, and typically it's for the most extreme of cases like Weinstein. Most of the time, all you gotta do is take a year or two away from the spotlight and most people will have moved on.

I'm definitely taking advantages of the teacher shortages as I look to teach public school this fall. I live in a college town where it used to be hard to find a teaching job because all of the college kids tried to teach here after they graduated. Now it's so bad that they had to have a job fair in October to fill in vacancies for the rest of the school year. Kinda crazy, really.

Outside of the one statement of apology he put out, he hasn't really shown remorse at all. On his newest special he jokes about the incident and complains about how hard his life was hit after the allegations. I haven't listened to the whole thing yet, but not once does he actually feel bad for what he did. It's just a bunch of "woe is me" nonsense. I believe in forgiveness and redemption, but it needs to be earned in earnest.

Not use to good news being preceded by "SCOTUS rules that..."