(And I’m going to have to steal this phrasology [because if I use words like phrasology, you know I need more better ways to talk.])

Yeah. I don’t know what to say about them.

I pride myself on being honest, so here goes. I saw the auto-tuned remix, and I laughed; though it definitely wasn’t as infectious as the friends who showed me thought. Then we watched the raw news report, and the main thing I gleaned from that was…the forensics team was one guy with a walkie talkie? In what little defense of the remixers as I can muster, from what I remember, they went out of their way to remove references to rape. Conceivably because they would agree that rape isn’t funny. Now, is taking it out of context what makes it funny? Or is removing the context just another horrible example of our incessant demand for more shocking dehumanisation of anyone other than ourselves?

I don’t know. Rape is not funny, but much humour can be derived from situations which are otherwise tragic. For example what That Was The Week That Was did in response to the civil rights movement. (I can’t find a useful link.) Not to say that bedroom intruder is satire, but it is something of and for the time.

However a question. What of the fact that Antoine Dodson himself has been able to parlay this internet fame into a way to make money? I find it hard to begrudge him (and his family) that, so perhaps a small silver lining?

It’s been clear to me for a long time that mainstream feminist groups have a very hard time seeing past their own immediate interests. Granted, equal pay, family leave, workplace harassment, and so forth are problems that affect all women. But these groups are run by upper class, white, educated, professional women, and those are the women about whom they are most concerned. We owe these groups a lot. But I have never understood why it’s been so hard for them to extent their reach to women unlike themselves-women of color and poor or working class women in particular. It should be a mark of shame to NOW, Feminist Majority, and others that many black women have rejected the feminist label altogether.

If the victim’s brother was the only one who cared enough to speak up for her, calling that patriarchal behavior is extraordinarily insulting and insensitive. Good for him. And for shame, white hipsters. For shame.