rant · moment 19 of 31
White Guys Are Back: Diversity Hires and the Cat-Sweater Rapist Archetype
from Bastard Radio | The Tim Dillon Show #372 · #372
3 min
A riff on how white male comedians were once told they weren't getting booked due to diversity hiring, evolving into a bit about the archetype of the falsely progressive "cat sweater" guy who was secretly predatory.
- White guys are back in the industry and no longer have an excuse for not succeeding.
- Writers' rooms would hire diverse staff but then add a white guy with darker sensibilities to provide offensive material as a form of diversity itself.
- The type of white guy who wouldn't get hired was the overly nice feminist who secretly wanted to rape everyone in the room.
- Tim describes the UCB cat-sweater-wearing aggressive feminist rapist archetype that was everywhere ten years ago.
- These guys always had names like Brandon or David or some variation with multiple first names.
- Tim recalls one of the shortest ill-fated podcasts from the boom called Rape Dicks, where he and Lou Gomez investigated open mic rape claims in comedy.
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