I signed it right after reading that story. The troubling thing is, it seems very in-character of him to do such a thing. -.-

Is exactly what I thought.

lol, we are so headed for a nanny state in this country. The best part is I was watching Tosh when I came across this Journal.

Actually, we already basically are a nanny state. That's part of the problem, though, in that the people doing the job of Nanny are doing it for the highest bidder, not the common welfare. I'm glad you're able to enjoy his comedy. I will admit that some of his material's actually pretty funny, but knowing about this has ruined him for me. I can't respect him anymore at all if it's okay, in his opinion, to make a member of his audience the butt of a rape joke, or to even suggest that someone who disagrees with jokes about rape be raped themselves, to say nothing of shaming someone out of a venue for being bold enough to voice an unpopular opinion.

Thats fine if you don't like him, I'm sure a lot of people don't like him. No one said you had to like him. My comment was aimed at this petition to get him removed. What happened to the days when if you didn't like something, you looked away. Now days, he must be silenced. Its not right, these entitled people need to loose the atitude and grow up. I miss my grandfathers genoration, they keep these pussies in check. Thats my opinion and it is what it is. People need to grow up and quit getting their feelings hurt. Drop a pair and deal with it. If you go see a comedian such as Tosh and take things personally, your the one that needs to be dealt with. I've seen Tosh live, he loves to mess with people that make a stink in the crowd.

While I do agree it does seem kinda stupid to go see a brash, horribly offensive comedian live in a comedy club if you have a problem with any of his material in his repertoire, I can't say a traumatized rape victim is "the one that needs to be dealt with". Saying that makes the woman sound like a burden to society.

This is an insane response to a comedians joke. The people that want him removed are the ones with issues. If a joke about rape is going to do serious mental damage to this woman, to the point of ruining a comedians career over said joke, then yes. She should be locked up somewhere away from the public where no one can threaten her fragile mental state ever again...or she can get the help she needs and get over this. Butt hurt people are butt hurt and demand their causes justified however illogical and destructive they might be. Btw, Nowhere in the article does it say the woman was a rape victim. It does state that she was ostracized for her objection to the joke. I've seen Tosh live, if you interrupt his bit he will torment you. Also, the bit about the woman being in danger? Really? I sure hope most people here reading that link don't believe that. Its very obvious that article was written by someone with a heavy bias. Its thinly veiled BS. Like I said last time, drop a pair and get over it. find a real issue in this society of ours to bunch your patines up over. How about all these people I see living in their cars in the back of Walmart parking lots. Lets do something for these people. Going by the price of the tickets to see Tosh, I'm guessing that woman that was laughed out of the club dosen't live in her car in a Walmart parking lot

A fair point well made. The insight in mind, I do want to know more about the case of the woman. Re-reading the article leaves a lot of information left to be said. It's written to grab the public's attention and let people draw conclusions based on what the majority will infer based on the context of the article.

She essentially walked into crossfire calling out someone like Daniel Tosh and kind of made a scene out of her own outrage. Whether she is or isn't a victim of some kind of act of rape, she really shouldn't have said anything and left with her own dignity. ._.;

In the days when, if you didn't like something, you looked away, the U.S. didn't want to get involved in stopping Hitler's rise to power and the death of six million Jews and who knows how many other people the third reich found unacceptable. There, Godwin's Law in action. Now that that's out of the way...

Evil persists when good men do nothing, and looking away is tantamount to doing nothing.
Perhaps it's not fair to silence Tosh, but then, that's exactly what he did to a woman who called him out. If you know the statistics, there's a good chance she could have been assaulted after the show if she hadn't left when she did, and if she had been, we wouldn't be signing a petition to get him taken off the air; we'd be hearing about court proceedings in which he was charged with the incitement of a crime.
Was it necessarily a good idea to stand up and call him out during a live show? No, definitely not. However to call into question the response to something worthy of outrage as "insane" is not only victim-blaming, it's perpetuation of a culture in which this sort of thing is the status quo. Oppression is the norm, and when the oppressed attempt to counter it, they are denounced as "insane", "whiners", "pussies", "needing to grow a pair", "Butt hurt" and so on.
If the woman who called him out did happen to be a rape victim it's entirely probable that she wouldn't be willing to seek the help she undoubtedly needs, because of the slut-shaming and victim-blaming that is so pervasive in our culture.
What exactly is destructive about demanding that someone be held accountable for the perpetuation of rape culture? Free speech doesn't mean you can say what you want with no consequences, free speech means you can say what you want as long as you're responsible for your opinions. There is no freedom without responsibility. Again, to be fair though, probably not wise to call out an entertainer during their show. She did, there were consequences, free will for everybody.
As to the woman being in danger, quite frankly that's a real possibility. If you're a woman in public in the U.S. there is a very real chance that you could be assaulted, and it's a much greater likelihood than if you're male. I consider that a real social problem worth addressing, coming from someone who actually has not only lived out of a car parked wherever I could find a spot I wouldn't be bothered, but who's also held a job while doing so, and while living out of a tent.
There's plenty to be pissed off about if you're paying attention; I don't usually make a fuss about it, I carry on as best I can, in spite of being a marginalized person on every possible axis except race. I've been through some shit that has brought people to tears when I described it, and I have a lot of battle scars, both mental and physical. You might say I'm biased, I would say I'm quietly suppressing my natural outrage at being shit on constantly. This is something where I'm not content to just keep calm and carry on; I am, however, perfectly willing to consider dissenting opinions and enter into debate. As angry as I might be, I do my best not to retaliate against the perpetuation of hatred and violence with more hatred and violence, because that solves nothing. It is not hatred motivating me to hold Tosh accountable for his actions; anger, certainly, but not hatred. And for me, it actually takes much more bravery to speak out, stick to my guns, and engage in dialogue than it does to remain silent. I'm assuming that we're simply going to disagree on this, and I'm fine with that if there's no possibility of any other outcome. You've presented your thoughts for my consideration, and these are mine presented for yours.

TL;DR- Yes it was stupid to call out an entertainer for his bullshit during his show, but that doesn't change the fact that it's bullshit. Not only is it bullshit, it's bullshit that carries a plague of apathy that perpetuates social injustice. I'm not mad that an entertainer got heckled and heckled back, I'm mad that an influential entertainer is perpetuating a cultural problem that has, in the past, affected me and others I know fairly traumatically.

motherfuckin do it

>_> I can see tosh doing it, but I'd like to see proof before blindly signing something... I also doubt this will have much impact, since tosh.o is honestly one of the only shows people actually watch on comedy central besides south park and ugly americans.

that and honestly, while it doesn't really justify this by any means, its pretty much common sense that an offensive comedian is going to be offensive.... she pretty much should've expected to be offended by anything going to see a standup with Tosh, that's just how his comedy works. Its like getting upset at south park for making fun of.... well, everything. While the joking was extremely strong, and I admit if he DID do this he probably should've backed off a bit at least, it isn't tosh so much I'm pissed off about so much as the audience harassment for it.... they should've known way better than to act the way that they did.

South Park is social commentary. It's acceptable because it makes fun of things in a way that still causes you to think critically about it's subject matter, and also because no topic is sacred on that particular show. It's still potentially problematic, but there's nothing wrong with liking problematic things; just own up to the problematic nature of the things you're enjoying. If you didn't enjoy anything that was problematic from a social justice perspective you probably wouldn't enjoy very much.
It's fine that Tosh's intention is to be offensive, but this is something else entirely. This is the perpetuation of a culture that accepts injustices as the status quo. Everyone could know better than to act the way they do, but very very few people actually do know better, which is in fact why societies the world over are as fucked up about things as they are. They just accept social injustices as the norm.

Upon a time, offense was not comedy. Sure, a certain amount of shock has added to many acts; even Monty Python's 'Undertaker's Sketch' was... well, funny, if revolting. People like Tosh, however, have lowered the bar on our standards, our values, and especially on our cultural sense of humour. There is no comedic element beyond random, gleeful and arrogant schadenfreude with, as near as I can tell, no consent from its victims beyond provision of guidelines for submitting a much-too-late complaint.

Assuming the story behind this petition is true - and considering what a sociopathic mouthpiece Tosh is, I see little reason to doubt it - the audience followed Tosh's lead. That's not to excuse them, but as a celebrity Tosh has implicitly accepted responsibility as a role model, and the attutude of arrogant self-entitled smarm which he projects is among the worst possible. He is a social failure in that he has spectacularly and deliberately failed society in the interest of profit and popularity.

Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if there was somewhere people could go to get away from his peers and groupies, but their addictive diet of empty self-importance and cruel entertainment is ubiquitous and reinforcing a vast downward social spiral that even critics can't escape in any meaningful way beyond isolation. It's not okay that complete jerks are the shaping and defining force in our media-driven civilization. Out of this mangled context Daniel Tosh would be an outcast, not a hero.