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What’s The Difference Between A Joke And A Jerk?

A joke is funny and satirizes parts of our culture that are bad and need change. A jerk, or a selection of whatever stronger words you so choose, says a woman being raped is funny (I’m looking at you, Daniel Tosh). My personal hero Wanda Sykes gets the difference.

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Kaye Toal



Meanwhile, the amazing women at the Women’s Media Center, in collaboration with Fem 2.0 and Women in Media & News, casually throw down a minute and a half truth bomb:

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