Sexual Politics
Oct 12, 2013 at 12:00 pm
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You, sir, are pathetic little butt-hurt douche bag. Maybe lame jokes are the reason your 'headlining' ass is playing to 7 people at an open mic. Dipshit.
I used cudgel and bludgeon in a sentence, y'ouns.
Lest you think this is some specific niche issue for me, Will: I made the same observation when W. Kamau Bell was complaining about Portland audiences failing to laugh at being called racists: it sounds like you weren't funny. You weren't funny, and you're demonstrating how fucking tone deaf you are with everything you're subsequently posting here.
We comics are an insecure bunch. Often, the goofy socially awkward type...finally coming into our own behind the mic. This incident highlights how thin the line is that separates us from being the bullied ones to becoming the bullies ourselves.
In that moment he wasn't 'punching up' anymore...he was punching down. And all around. At you.
I absolutely hate it when comics chastise the audience for not laughing. If you're confident that your material is great and then it fails? At least own it. Enjoy the silence.
Every comic has been bullied. It's why we're comics instead of emotionally-stable human beings. This might be the most unpopular comment of the thread, but I support Barbara's anger, and I also support Will as a talented comedian except for this instance. Everyone who's posted in this is funnier than I am, but I just hope both sides can forgive each other and embrace harmony over discord.
This was a man attacking a woman in public because she writes a column about misogyny.
She was doing nothing wrong and had never done anything to him.
Yet he targeted her from a stage and tried to intimidate and shame her by yelling at her about rape in front of an audience.
Will Woodruff used a comedy mic to sexually harass a woman because she criticizes rape culture.
She had never talked about him before, and did not name even after the attack.
He took credit for the attack because he feels men should have the right to attack women in the audience for having opinions they don't like. He, and his defenders, are angry men who harass women, and should be prevented from doing so.
This is going national; I'm from another city. I will make sure Will is banned from stages here, because he's not a comic, he's an angry misogynist who hijacks the mic for his hateful agenda.
1. All things can be funny, if my joke(s) about rape didn't get good laughs repeatedly I would stop using them...and I understand you dislike for a joke about rape, I have no argument to say it's in good taste, but again I have to decide what I do and don't do, sorry if you think that job was left to the angry mob.
2. the not afraid of getting beat up by a woman line is a classic joke, I had to throw it in! I don't drop too many slurs out of respect, even though I am a big "but they said it!" kind of person but I have used them, and will probably happen again, hopefully my friends know there is no hate behind it, and that I am capable of fucking up... See Stanhope's act for further details.
3. Just so everyone knows, in retrospect I am not sorry about the joke(its mine), and keep in mind other comics went at me from with the god mic from off stage, and I just lashed out, and in this case I did hit a bystander, which by the way isn't bullying, and as former 3 time captain(and first board) of Sprague High School's chess team, and the guy that always wore sweatpants, I can tell you what happened was not bullying, I do know the difference. It was however more akin to someone not involved getting shot in a drive by, and she shot back. But when people are yelling shit at you and attacking, you don't say sorry to that... or at least I don't.
Lastly this isn't me saying I was wronged I pretty much never think that, I'm a big boy I can handle myself, even if another comic throws a shoe at me or verbally rips me a new ass, or whatever... so be it, what I am saying is that I agree with Richard Bain, Marcus Gibson is an idiot.(not exact quote)
PS feel free to call up and tell me how bad of a person I am next week on stand-up sitdown(I can plug too)
PPS hooker with a penis, I liked your take on this, what are your rates?
Moral of all this: words and actions matter! Be nice, friends!
Someone allegedly got on your case via the PA (perhaps one of the organizers). It wasn't Barbara Holm and you knew it. You admit she wasn't doing anything to you, but you attacked her by name. In your first comment, you admit your attack was motivated by an agenda: "I was calling you on something... something that annoys more people than just myself," and by "something" you mean she dared to criticized rape jokes in general before.
Rather than respond to the people who you claim were actually giving you a hard time, you singled out a woman who hasn't singled you out just because you find her criticism of rape culture annoying. As if it was her fault or responsibility for your failure to be funny.
Worst of all, when she writes about this in the abstract, keeping your identity secret. You get enraged and identify yourself and continue to act like it's somehow not your fault you attacked someone who did nothing to you.
Just own up to targeting a woman because that's how you roll when you bomb. Admit you've got a grudge against Holm, apparently because she's a feminist and thus obligated to laugh at rape jokes no matter what or some resentful comedy bro crap.
Also, if you are going to be an edgy, confrontational artist - using the utterly cliché, boring tactic of being shocking by being a white guy talking about rape - you don't get to demand that the audience support every joke.