Sexist comedian

[endchauvinism]

This performance by wildly popular comedian Bill Burr is a good example of how funny guys get away with abuse and sexism. Yes, he's doing comedy, but his underlying points are clearly not jokes to him. I’ve also heard him on his podcast being just as misogynistic when he's serious.

Here’s a youtube link “Bill Burr -- There is no reason to hit a woman”
Notice the serious messages he slips in with the comedy:

1. Women bring up domestic violence against women too much.
2. Men make all the hard sacrifices because women are too selfish and lazy to help more (example is when his wife won’t take the dog out at night)
3. There are reasons to hit women. Don’t do it, but there are reasons to. (WTF? If there are reasons to, then why not do it?)

He finishes off in the video, saying that the core reason men hit women is because of how women argue and verbally attack men.
The audience roars with laughter all the way through, although he notices tension in the room at one point. What’s it take to get people to stop brushing off the bad behavior of a**holes who make them laugh and charm them?

LassWiADelicateAir: There is always a reason why people behave in certain ways. We need to consider these reasons

Oh my - how reasonable you sound. Even down to the nice inclusive use of "we"

You and Bill are playing with words. You know it and I know.

"Reason" in the context of the phrase "no reason to hit a woman" (or a man or a child or a dog for that matter) is used in the sense of "justification"/"good cause". You and he know perfectly well that is how the phrase is heard.

That is why your knife analogy fails because no one is going to argue that hitting someone attacking you with a knife is not justified.

He turned it into meaning "reason" in the sense of analysing the cause of what might make a person harbour the idea of a violent , physical reaction. I grudgingly concede it was a manipulatively clever use of language.

It's having one's cake and eating it. He's saying there might be a reason, in a purely analyitical sense, where actions might lead to a build up of irritation, but hitting is not justified, oh no, he'd never agree with that- whilst knowing that the bone heads guffawing at his joke are not making that distinction.

His wife smacked his headphones off his head whilst he was wearing them and he finally lost his cool. But he did not hit his wife. He had a reason to do so, but chose not to. You really can't expect more than that in the circumstances

No he did not have a reason to hit her. He had no justification for hitting her.

Want another example of what some women are capable of? :
[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/16/controlling-girlfriend-first-woman-convicted-new-domestic-abuse/]

Thankfully, she was convicted

Oh dear lord. And I wonder how many 100s of cases of abuse and violence by men there were in the same week she was convicted?

He's a fairly un-funny and very very misogynistic man - his 'epidemic of gold-digging whores' routine is a real treat 😲

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