Comedian Jumps Shark, Goes Full Rape Troll

To be clear, the #MeToo Movement is not my business.  The #MeToo Movement is by, for, and about African-Americans.  There was a brief time when it got co-opted by everybody and their mother, and that was kind of disastrous, and then it died down.  So I wish them well from a polite distance.

But comedian Michelle Wolf, on the other hand, wanted to go on tour with Dave Chapelle and Louis CK.  So she needed to push somebody under the bus to get in good with the mean boys.  And not surprisingly, she chose rape survivors, the women who have no friends in society.

The Daily Beast:
Michelle Wolf Slams #MeToo Movement in Netflix Special

"The special’s second episode, for example, focuses on both identity and on #MeToo, which Wolf calls “the worst-run movement I’ve ever seen.” "

I'm willing to bet she doesn't know it's run by Tarana Burke.

"Much of Wolf’s material poignantly points out the hypocrisy white women enact in a society that can often encourage their sense of victimhood, lest they discover and embrace their true power (as she labels it, “Karen-ing”). “Waiting until a couple summers ago to realize that things have been bad for Black people is like needing to see that documentary to know that SeaWorld is bad,” she says at one point. “Like, ‘Did you know whales shouldn’t live in the sink?!’” "

Maybe Michelle Wolf only found out things were bad for black people last summer.  That's about her.  I don't appreciate being lumped in with women like her under the "Karen" label because she's overprivileged and also wants to make money abusing rape survivors by touring with Dave Chapelle.  Her irony  detector must be failing.

"But on other topics, like #MeToo, the comedian’s comments start to feel less considered and more incendiary. During one joke, she sums up #MeToo supporters’ position by saying, “Doesn’t matter what you did. You could have raped somebody or accidentally whispered into a boob. It’s all the same, and you have to die.”"

Actually that didn't happen.  Can she give some examples of people who were disproportionately punished?  No, and she doesn't have to.  She's playing to Dave Chapelle's audience now.

"Wolf says she “was so frustrated by [#MeToo], because I think we genuinely could have made social change."

WE?  Does this broad have a mouse in her pocket?  Is she a sexual assault survivor?  I'll give that a hard no.  She's clearly not part of the #MeToo Movement.  And as a white rape survivor she's  no friend of mine.  I'll invite her to fuck straight off, thanks.

"We could have made things better for women and men, but we fucked it up from the very beginning.”

Again, WE fucked it up?  What exactly did she do?  How did she contribute, other than being willing to tour with professional rape troll Dave Chapelle and his buddy Louis CK? 

"There is, of course, a discussion to be had about how effective #MeToo’s general approach of punishing individual abusers has actually been in promoting justice or spawning long-lasting change. In 2021, for example, The Daily Beast’s Emily Shugerman spoke with insiders who alleged that Time’s Up had lost its way."

That last paragraph is so incredibly wrong-headed I'll handle it in points, and then stop bothering with the whole mess.

• The #MeToo Movement isn't about "punishing individual abusers in order to promote justice or spawn long-lasting change."  It's a social support movement by, for, and about African-American rape survivors, helping those individuals cope with their personal traumas.  All of that other crap is about the movement having been temporarily co-opted by white people on Twitter when Ronan Farrow did his Harvey Weinstein story.  They had to use her hashtag because there wasn't anything for white women.
  
• #MeToo and #TimesUp have nothing to do with each other.  #MeToo is and always was a grassroots, African-American thing that got temporarily co-opted.  #TimesUp always was astroturf, by, for, and about the Democratic elites, that served its purpose and went away.
  
• TimesUp never lost its way.  It was always a "catch and kill" operation to keep Joe Biden's potential claimants out of the way.  And it was 100% effective at doing exactly that.  They never intended to help people like me, and they never did.
  

I never thought I'd see the day when Michelle Wolf would make Jim Jeffries look like a class act, but here we are.  I remember when Jim Jeffries apologized for having been a rape troll, as soon as the whole #MeToo thing got co-opted.  And I thought it was really craven of him, so convenient.  In hindsight I should have accepted his apology.

Because down the road a piece, check out Michael Ian Black, who read the room and realized he could safely get attention for his dead career by coming out anti-#MeToo.  Really even the rapists can all come back and it's fine.  Just like Dave Chapelle lied all over his Elizabeth Smart jokes, so did Michelle Wolf.  It will always be safe to be a rape troll in America.