Editorial:
From CNN [1]:
When the comedian Daniel Tosh reportedly [2] singled out a woman in his audience and suggested, according to a blog post that recounted the incident, [3] it would be "funny" if she "got raped by, like, five guys, right now," the online reaction was swift, heated and often split down gender lines. Many men wanted to explain free speech or heckling etiquette. Many women (and virtually all feminists) said these topics were distractions, at best, from the sheer offensiveness of Tosh's attack.
As we at the Women's Media Center watched hundreds of users comment on our Facebook post about the incident, [4] we saw the same disconnect.
Quite a few of the women who shared our post said they were doing so in hopes that a husband or boyfriend would "finally understand why I won't watch Tosh's show with him." Some even tagged their husbands or boyfriends, to be sure the message would reach its destination.
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Source:
CNN
URL:
http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/16/opinion/burton-bruns-tosh/index.html
Date:
July 18, 2012
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