First things first: don’t rape people.
American comedian Sarah Silverman has posted a genius list of tips to prevent rape.
She posted the list to Twitter along with the caption: “These are great – send to all men in ur life.”
The ‘Ten Rape Prevention Tips’ list reads:
Silverman, 44, is renowned for tackling taboo topics in her comedy, and has previously been both acclaimed and dismissed for her “rape jokes”.
In her Emmy award-winning comedy special, Sarah Silverman: We Are Miracles, she uses her comedy to highlight the lack of women reporting rape:
“We need more rape jokes. We really do. I love that some people applauded that,” she said.
“Needless to say, rape, the most heinous crime imaginable. Seems it’s a comic’s dream, though. Because it seems that when you do rape jokes, the material is so dangerous and edgy.
“But the truth is it’s like the safest area to talk about in comedy. Cause who’s going to complain about a rape joke? Rape victims? They don’t even report rape. I mean, they’re traditionally not complainers.”
Related content: Madonna didn’t report her rape out of fear.
In her 2010 autobiography, Bedwetter, she explains:
“At some point, I figured that it would be more effective and far funnier to embrace the ugliest, most terrifying things in the world – the Holocaust, racism, rape, et cetera.”
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Top Comments
All comedians perform a mixture of copied and original material - why does it matter whether or not she "wrote or re-tweeted them" ?
I can only presume it's an attempt to lessen the effectiveness of this list........again.........why ?
She didn't write them, she retweeted them.