‘The Daily Show’: Women Just Spend Their Whole Day Navigating a Course of Sexual Menace
Jon Stewart, accompanied by correspondents Jessica Williams and Jordan Klepper, explains how American universities are practically "incentiviz[ing] sexual assault" these days with inaction and leniency toward attackers.Jon Stewart, accompanied by correspondents Jessica Williams and Jordan Klepper, explains how American universities are practically “incentiviz[ing] sexual assault” these days with inaction and leniency toward attackers.
Williams and Klepper do an especially great job of comparing the concerns men and women have on any given night out. For example, while the fratty Klepper advises men to avoid passing out on the couch because “someone might draw like a dick on your face,” Williams warns women not to pass out because “someone will put a dick on your face, at a minimum.” Pretty much spot on.
—Posted by Natasha Hakimi Zapata
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