Amy Schumer Caught in Rape Culture Clutches

Just when Amy Schumer is earning her feminist bones by suddenly remembering she was raped as a teen, one of her buddies and frequent guest on her Comedy Central show, Kurt Metzger, publicly challenged the legitimacy of rape claims being tantamount to rape convictions. The very underpinning of the rape culture handbook.

Metzger’s own comedian friend, Aaron Glaser, was banned from the Upright Citizen’s Brigade comedy troupe in New York and dropped from comedy club bookings when accusations arose through leaks from a private online group that multiple women claimed Glaser had sexually assaulted them. The UCB conducted an internal investigation before ex-communicating Glaser and spreading the word. Metzger went off on various Twitter rants about comedy groups conducting internal investigations, nobody at any time ever calling the cops about rape, or going through authorities, and the whipped up witch hunt mentality around undocumented rape accusations:

Guys I have just heard some disturbing news, this guy Jiff Dilfyberg is a rapist! I know because women said it and that’s all I need! Never you mind who they are. They are women! ALL women are as reliable as my bible! A book that, much like a women, is incapable of lying!”

“You think I would dare ask my God, Lord Jesus Christ the Nazarene to provide any “details” or “evidence” of any kind before I believe in him? Or a woman? No, because that be that would be like hammering the nails into Jesus My Lord’s feet! Or re-raping the victim’s good hole!!! Or asking for proof in a murder trial!”

“Anyway Jiff Dilfyberg is dangerous! So fucking dangerous that we can’t go to the police to report his many rapes! That would just be tooooo rapey, and the women are too brave for that. If we ask them to even merely also post a vague account of what happened before asking us to believe that would like re-raping their rape! These women are as BRAVE as they are sore!”

Rape culture activists assailed Metzger. The sore hole bit might’ve fanned some flames. Metzger stuck by and even doubled down on his rants, so the posse went after a softer target — Amy Schumer. Schumer quickly disavowed Metzger’s comments, made a point to mention he was not a writer on her show just an occasional guest, and mentioned how sorry she was for his miscreant notions. She should write all that shit down in her diary to remember for her memoirs in her 40’s. 

Pendulums swing faster than they used to. From 1950’s rape trials blaming women to the 2010’s convicting men on hearsay and social media courtrooms.

Metzger’s point that lynch mobs are as morally despicable as rapists isn’t something that’s going to fly in a Trust Her First world. Every single major media outlet and corporation is on board with the New York Soul Cycle borne notion that the only sensible alternative to stopping the small percentage of dangerous men out there is to label all men as dangerous. You can’t be put in prison on accusation alone, but you can lose your livelihood and reputation. Good luck suing after the fact. You’re already toast. 

Almost nobody is capable of discernment and thoughtful investigation any longer. You’ve got ten seconds to pick a team and commit without reflection. Decide or die. Utopia can’t be far now.

_{Photo credit: Kurt Metzger/Twitter}