It’s been too long since we heard a helpful piece of advice from our good friend, Don Lemon. The newscaster, when he’s not telling America’s black youth to pull up their pants, had a tip for Joan Tarshis. Tarshis went public this week with allegations that she was drugged and raped by Bill Cosby in 1969:
Lemon: You — you know, there are ways not to perform oral sex if you didn’t want to do it.
Tarshis: I was kind of stoned at the time, and quite honestly, that didn’t even enter my mind. Now I wish it would have.
Lemon: Right. Meaning the using of the teeth, right?
Tarshis: Yes…I didn’t even think of it.
Brilliant idea, Mr. Lemon. Because as if being raped and having to discuss it isn’t agonizing enough, let’s throw in a side of victim blaming. Lemon has since apologized, for all the good that did.
Team Blackness also discussed a Kentucky fire chief who refused to help a black family in a traffic incident, a new Barbie book about programming that tells girls they need boys to code for them, and Tanzania evicting 40,000 people to make room for the Dubai royal family.
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CONGRATULATIONS!
That was not an apology from the good Mr. Lemon.
wenchacha
Cause if a man has his groin up against your face, or over it, you don’t have to worry about being punched in the head, or choked or anything. No doubt biting has worked for some people, but expecting everyone to defend themselves with their teeth is dumb. Maybe they should run a poll on CNN.
The Very Reverend Crimson Fire of Compassion
I have to admit that, when I first read about the Kentucky bigot, I checked to make sure I wasn’t at the Onion or another parody site. Are there going to be repercussions for this douchebag, or does the state stand behind this degree of blatant racism?
Richard Shindledecker
Has anyone asked Lemon how he knows about biting the dick that sticks you?
p
girls/women have spent thousands of years not biting off penises. the repercussions of doing such being so unpredictable.
some men double in pain, others lash out with an adrenalin rush and cut off heads., but always females know they’re on the losing end.
I have come to a point where every single transaction I have with anyone
I WANT IN WRITING.
nor does it matter.. bullshit, dishonesty, irresponsibility, greed.
climate change. plastic bottles, vortexes of garbage twice the size of texas
in oceans.
oh fuck absolutely please argue about “black Friday” when THERE ARE NO HOLIDAYS ANYMORE.
sharl
Awesomely creative, funny and quirky poet Patricia Lockwood has tried to come to the Lemon man’s aid here:
Fred
It’s just like in “The Shawshank Redemption”. When the evil cons were going to make Andy swallow the guys shlong and Andy tells him he’s gonna bite it off. They backed off and only beat Andy half to death. But it all worked out OK when Andy crawled through a half mile sewer pipe full of shit and rats so he could go pick up his fat stock portfolio hidden in a tin can under a tree. Now that’s pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, I tells ya. Now Andy owns a nice hotel down in Mexico and Morgan Freeman has a nice retirement home so he doesn’t have to bag groceries till he dies.
It’s easy for fictional characters or talking heads to be tough. Neither ones have to face the real life consequences.
As to the charge: I hope Cos didn’t do such a thing.
skyweaver
@CONGRATULATIONS!: I was on my way to state quite emphatically that saying “If anybody was offended” is NOT an apology, but you beat me to it. I’m tired of seeing that headline that he apologized.
Gex
Shorter Don Lemon: why just be a rape victim when you can also be a murder victim?