Wait till she finds out that Dane Cook suggested she kill herself. kok # Now, over forty years since | stopped presenting my concept about a rape-in of legislators’ wives, | sent the first draft of this piece around to several friends, and | was particularly touched by a response from Emma Cofod, production manager at my then-publisher, Soft Skull Press: “Thank you for sharing this! | truly appreciate your thoughts here. | read about this woman's complaint last week, and the whole event turned my stomach. What Tosh did was personally threatening, which is not OK. But even though | fall neatly into the feminist camp, | think your original joke is hilarious—within context, and coming from a comedian whose philosophy | identify with. Color me conflicted.” | think that kind of conflict is healthy. And then there was Louis C.K.’ s appearance on 7he Daily Show. This is what he told Jon Stewart between interruptions: “If this [controversy about Tosh] is like a fight between comedians and bloggers--hyperbole and garbage comes out of those two places, just uneducated, unfettered--it’ s also a fight between comedians and feminists, because they’ re natural enemies, because, stereotypically speaking, feminists can’ t take a joke, and on the other side, comedians HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015416