Kelly Bachman, a comedian and rape survivor, confronts a comedian who made a gang rape joke during his stand-up set. Bachman aims to challenge the notion that rape jokes are funny and highlights the need for more nuanced discussions around the topic.
“People a lot of times ask me if I’m a comedian because of trauma—no, actually. I'm funny because I'm funny," Kelly Bachman says.directed a gang rape joke in his stand-up set at a female audience member after she told him rape jokes aren’t funny.What ensued was a one-dimensional, Very 2012 debate about rape jokes , and the usual male hysteria about the “thought police” coming for men’s sacred birthright to mock and degrade whoever they please without criticism.
“When I was getting raped four years ago — that’s one leap year ago — I just kept thinking to myself the whole time, ‘I can’t wait to use this to get ahead in comedy! They’re gonna see my name in lights, it’s gonna be ‘Victim,’” Bachman joked in the duo’s live 2020 show. “When Kelly and I were talking about the show, we had so many shared experiences and know how it feels when people say their rape was much worse, or when people try to gaslight and belittle your experience,” he said. “We learned so many other survivors have felt that way too, and we had to put it in there, and just let people know what the show is about.”
“Survivors aren’t a monolith — a lot of survivors are queer, trans, lesbian, straight men, non-binary people, gay men, people of all races,” Adler said. “Sexual violence is really pervasive in all communities. Some people think it’s black-and-white, but who survivors are is more complex.”survivors are often assumed by default to be white, straight, cisgender women.
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