Tuesday, March 9, 2021

An open letter to Charles M. Blow

Dude, shut up.
(No, no, I mean the title of your book. You spelled it wrong.)

Dear Mr. Blow,

Thank you for bringing it to everyone's attention that the Looney Tunes character Pepe le Pew, aside from being named after a white supremacist frog, "adds to rape culture." Rape culture is obviously bad, even worse than Chinese people eating with chopsticks, and we all admire you for calling it out when you see it.

You know what else adds to rape culture? Pornography.

I look forward to a series of righteously indignant tweets on the subject.

Best regards,

William James Tychonievich

4 comments:

S.K. Orr said...

Brilliant.

S.K. Orr said...

And Mr. Blow? You know what else contributes to rape culture? According to crime stats, black men do. Black men commit rapes and other violent crimes WAY out of proportion to their numbers in society. We are encouraged that you'll be addressing the rapishness of black men in your upcoming writings.

Wm Jas Tychonievich said...

As Eddie Griffin says in one of his movies, that may be true — but figurin’ it out is RACIST!

Wm Jas Tychonievich said...

I don't think Mr. Blow has read my letter, since he's still misspelling "shut up" on his Twitter bio.

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