don’ t matter. So, to the men| say, ‘Listen to what the women are saying

don’ t matter. So, to the men| say, ‘Listen to what the women are saying about this.’ To the women | say, “Now that we heard you, shut the fuck up for a minute, and let’ s all get back together and kill the Jews.’ That’ s all | have to say about it.” The audience laughed and applauded, as they did fifty years ago when Lenny Bruce ended a riff on prejudice: “Randy, it won’ t matter any more even if you are colored and I’ m Jewish, and even if Fritz is Japanese, and Wong is Greek, because then we’ re all gonna stick together—and beat up the Polacks.” My notion of a rape-in of legislators’ wives in order to impregnate them was no more meant to be taken literally than Louis C.K.’ s killing the Jews or Lenny’ s beating up the Polacks. Rape-in was a misunderstood metaphor; a pro-choice parable that unfortunately has become timely again, but now my target has been clarified, though it's still those increasingly incredible sexist legislators. Take Missouri Senator Todd Akin—please. Referring to conception during a rape, when he said, “If it’ s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down,” he jumped the proverbial shark. And when Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock said that if a HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019102