The Secret Life of Men-Folk

...funny?

I guess the real question is, what did anyone laugh at and why?

Cuz Dave's bit where he hijacked EVERY Trump-voting, NRA card carrying, gun toting white guy's fantasy of 'protecting' their family was brilliant.  But ONLY if you actually remember when this government was busy carting Every Single Black Man they could to prison while Nancy Reagan chided us. Which is only, at best, a bittersweet laugh. Oh now it's a HEALTH problem when Whites are affected by addiction, rigggght?

(I think the guy White America laughed at as crackhead Tyrone Biggums gets to do that)

While I didn't agree (and felt extremely uncomfortable) with his use of the six letter F word in the standards bit, it turns out I'd forgotten why he did it. And to fully explain it, he'd have to poop on a few fellow standups--which many amongst them refuse to do.

Brief pause here.

ROSEANNE BARR DENIES THAT I'M HUMAN..
ROSEANNE BARR IS. ON. TOUR.

If anything in comedy needs 'fixing...?'  Start there k?

Where was I? Oh yes, standards bit.  You see, when Kevin Hart dropped out from Oscars hosting, Nick Cannon referenced tweet after tweet after tweet of other comedians of that era using the six letter f-word in a perjorative sense.  Which Kevin Hart never did.  Amy Schumer.  Sarah Silverman.  Comedian after comedian after comedian being five times uglier to the LGBTQ community than Kevin. Where's the outrage?  As usual, Blacks are sentenced harder for the same crimes. Even if they aren't exactly criminal in nature.

Please don't mistake me for an apologist for Louis CK. I'm not.  I will say he's one of only two people during the #metoo movement to admit to everything he did and publicly apologize. Some of his victims note he tried apologizing prior to #metoo.  Beyond that, whether or not America wants to bother with him is his problem. He's still eating. I don't feel bad for him.  There's no reason to.  Wouldn't buy tickets to see him.

But it does raise the question:  At what point are you forgiven?
Which is NOT important for Louis' sake, but for the bigger picture. Feminism itself.

Dave made a VASTLY more important point in Bird and Equanimity:  The movement will HAVE to make friends with some of those who've wronged them to ultimately prevail. Cuz they will.

Guess who knows that better than anyone?  Guess who had to rub lots and lots and LOTS of elbows with Southern Democrats (you know, the political party whose emblem was a rooster, not an elephant) before any meaningful Civil Rights legislation was passed?  People who ran for office--and were elected--on the platform of White Supremacy and sustained social and economic segregation?  It's a well known fact (or should be)  that President Lyndon B. Johnson called Civil Rights 'The Nigger Bill' as he discussed it amongst Senators and Congressmen in the corridors of the Capitol.  But he ALSO got it passed. And Affirmative Action after that.

Which is something to think about.