Lindy "Totally Satisfied in Her Sex Life" West comes off as incoherent, unfunny, hypocritical and unable to hold a thought in her head for more than thirty seconds.
It's ridiculous that a person who can't form a cogent argument is somehow a feminist leader who writes thinkpieces.
This is from the YouTube transcript of that video, but you should listen to the video since there are two people talking over each other here, Bell and West.
4:55 yeah we're drunk and then there's just a
4:57 dude on the stage being like hey
4:58 wouldn't it be hilarious of everyone
5:00 raped that girl and then everyone laughs
5:02 and then by the way sometimes
5:04 everyone does rape that girl and that's
5:06 a thing that really happens in the world
5:08 like I don't mean that the people in
5:09 that club then like rally and they're
5:11 like I'm not doing anything but I mean
5:13 in the broader scheme of the world this
5:16 is a thing that happens and it's
5:18 actually really trivial trivializing to
5:20 say that mocking and exploiting a rape
5:24 victims trauma to her face because there
5:26 will be women in that audience and
5:28 probably men who've been sexually
5:29 assaulted is the same as like making fun
5:32 of a thing like it's not the same it's
5:35 not and your nicest thing is Hitler what
5:39 do you mean like you weren't being like
5:42 hey wouldn't it be great if someone
5:44 reanimated Hitler and wait and then
5:48 write this down but you knew
5:50 that's week's show we will be doing up
5:51 it's not like you know that a third of
5:54 your audience are like Holocaust
5:56 survivors who like are also being like
5:59 systematically silenced and told not to
6:01 talk about the Holocaust because no one
6:04 wants to hear about it and also you were
6:05 probably kind of asking for the
6:06 Holocaust not just making a joke about a
6:15 thing it's contributing to a culture
6:18 that perpetuates that thing that's and I
6:19 understand why you would say that but
In this we learn it's okay to make holocaust jokes but not rape jokes because:
1. Holocaust victims don't come to her show and so won't be traumatized by Holocaust jokes
2. Holocaust victims and Jews are not told to shut up about the Holocaust
Compare with The Producers, 1967, Blazing Saddles 1974, To Be or Not to Be, 1983, much more Mel Brooks career, and many many other Jewish comedians re: the Holocaust. (google com/search?q=jewish+holocaust+comedian+jokes)
My take from the first point is that so long as no or few rape victims are in the room, it's perfectly fine to make rape jokes. By the same logic, it's okay to make racist jokes as long as your targets are not present.
My take from the second point is that Lindy West is absolutely fucking clueless.