I am missing a finger, and do a joke about it in my act. "This happened when I was 18 - hey, at that age a girl will do anything to lose weight."
The other night I hosted a show and the headliner got on stage and opened with "Our host said she cut off her finger to lose weight. You'd lose even more if you would cut off your own head, you bitch!"
To the audience's credit there was very little laughter. 😕 I brought it up jokingly to the headliner later and all he said was "Hey, they laughed!"
The ruling sparked outrage among critics who argue the judicial system engaged in victim-blaming and upholding outdated notions about rape and sexual assault
“An Oklahoma court has stunned local prosecutors with a declaration that state law doesn’t criminalize oral sex with a victim who is completely unconscious.
The ruling, a unanimous decision by the state’s criminal appeals court, is sparking outrage among critics who say the judicial system was engaged in victim-blaming and buying outdated notions about rape.
But legal experts and victims’ advocates said they viewed the ruling as a sign of something larger: the troubling gaps that still exist between the nation’s patchwork of laws and evolving ideas about rape and consent.
The case involved allegations that a 17-year-old boy assaulted a girl, 16, after volunteering to give her a ride home. The two had been drinking in a Tulsa park with a group of friends when it became clear that the girl was badly intoxicated. Witnesses recalled that she had to be carried into the defendant’s car. Another boy, who briefly rode in the car, recalled her coming in and out of consciousness.
The boy later brought the girl to her grandmother’s house. Still unconscious, the girl was taken to a hospital, where a test put her blood alcohol content above .34. She awoke as staff were conducting a sexual assault examination.
Tests would later confirm that the young man’s DNA was found on the back of her leg and around her mouth. The boy claimed to investigators that the girl had consented to performing oral sex. The girl said she didn’t have any memories after leaving the park. Tulsa County prosecutors charged the young man with forcible oral sodomy.
But the trial judge dismissed the case. And the appeals court ruling, on 24 March, affirmed that prosecutors could not apply the law to a victim who was incapacitated by alcohol.
“Forcible sodomy cannot occur where a victim is so intoxicated as to be completely unconscious at the time of the sexual act of oral copulation,” the decision read. Its reasoning, the court said, was that the statute listed several circumstances that constitute force, and yet was silent on incapacitation due to the victim drinking alcohol. “We will not, in order to justify prosecution of a person for an offense, enlarge a statute beyond the fair meaning of its language.”
Benjamin Fu, the Tulsa County district attorney leading the case, said the ruling had him “completely gobsmacked”.
“The plain meaning of forcible oral sodomy, of using force, includes taking advantage of a victim who was too intoxicated to consent,” Fu said. “I don’t believe that anybody, until that day, believed that the state of the law was that this kind of conduct was ambiguous, much less legal. And I don’t think the law was a loophole until the court decided it was.” To focus on why the victim was unable to consent, he continued, puts the victim at fault.”
I was visiting a friend who came to CA, who was staying with a guy in Orange. She mentioned to him that I do standup comedy and he said,
"Can you standup and do some comedy right here in the living room...but over there by the window?"
(yea, awkward). Mentally for me, he was saying "entertain me," but in reality it is everyone who is trying to see how funny you are and if you're not funny for them, then HOW on earth could you be a comedian for millions of other people?
After politely not reciprocating another comedian’s feelings for me:
“I don’t owe you shit. Who are you? You are a person struggling to be an opener. I am a headliner at the club. You act as if I should feel lucky to help you. Fuck you!”
After my set, I sat down at a high table with a friend. A man walked up to me and referenced a joke, asking if that was me, while putting his hand on my thigh. I looked at his hand then at him, and he removed it.
Then he started to tell me another joke of mine was great, and put his hand back on my thigh. I grabbed his hand and physically removed it, and he quickly said, “oh sorry,” and smiled like it had been an accident. That grip was no accident, pal.
“We were both really tired one night,” McKinnon explains, “and I just said to Aidy, ‘Man, dyke is tired,’ and Aidy said, ‘Fats is tired, too.’ And then it became our beautiful thing that we had together and we wanted to make something out of it,” McKinnon says.
While waiting to go up at a show, a male comic told me:
"Yeah, every girl comic gets a lot of attention when she first starts because there aren't that many girl comics, but then after two years they're gone. So we'll see if you stick around."
Once, in Bardstown, KY, a guy came up to me before the show and said, "You better do a good job. I judge women comics harsher because they're never funny."
