In this case the malfeasant was film critic David Edelstein, who made a stupid, quickly deleted, misfired “joke” on his private Facebook page, regarding the death of Last Tango in Paris director Bernardo Bertolucci. He’s also the chief film critic for New York magazine and appears on the CBS Sunday Morning show. Edelstein was clearly insensitive about rape – well, not rape per se, but Schneider’s account of feeling a little raped. The book, a compilation of, yes, rape jokes, is the text version of a live performance piece. If we’re retaliating against millennia of male power one film critic at a time, let’s at least be honest about the enterprise.

Source: The Guardian December 22, 2018 11:01 UTC