{"id":177309,"date":"2019-10-25T18:37:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T23:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/10\/25\/pity-the-poor-disrespected-rapist\/"},"modified":"2019-10-25T18:37:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T23:37:00","slug":"pity-the-poor-disrespected-rapist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/10\/25\/pity-the-poor-disrespected-rapist\/","title":{"rendered":"Pity the Poor Disrespected Rapist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Harvey Weinstein showed up to a comedy show, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2019\/10\/25\/harvey-weinstein-heckler-kelly-bachman-video\/\">his feelings were hurt by the standup comic who noticed that there was a monster in her audience<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>Kelly Bachman desrves more than applause, she deserves her own network television program:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">With her heart racing as she went onstage, Kelly Bachman knew she had to speak up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a comic,\u201d the 27-year-old said to open her routine, in a video later<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bellykachman\/status\/1187456033389797378?s=20\"> shared on social media<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s our job to name the elephant in the room. Does anybody know what that is?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A few people nodded and muttered in affirmation. Most of the crowd, a hodgepodge of 20- and 30-something performers at a basement bar in Manhattan, was dead silent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a Freddy Krueger in the room, if you will,\u201d she said. \u201cI didn\u2019t know we had to bring our own mace and rape whistles.\u201d At that point, a handful of people in the back of the room started booing her. One yelled, \u201cShut up!\u201dBut Bachman didn\u2019t need to say more for the crowd to notice who she was talking about: Sitting in a green velvet booth was Harvey Weinstein, the Hollywood mogul accused of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/life\/people\/2017\/10\/27\/weinstein-scandal-complete-list-accusers\/804663001\/\">sexually abusing or harassing more than 80<\/a> women.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>For her part, Bachman is taking one thing away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Harvey Weinstein is calling me rude,\u201d she quipped, \u201cI\u2019m putting that on my r\u00e9sum\u00e9.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Get this woman a network show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvey Weinstein showed up to a comedy show, and his feelings were hurt by the standup comic who noticed that there was a monster in her audience. Kelly Bachman desrves more than applause, she deserves her own network television program: With her heart racing as she went onstage, Kelly Bachman knew she had to speak &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[368,364,386,448,582],"class_list":["post-177309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-evil","tag-humor","tag-sex","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}