Supporting Audra's joke about being raped on-stage. — Page 7

It wasn't highly insensitive. It was touching.

If you had any issue with Audra's speech you are in no doubt in need of serious therapy. You might want to consider never leaving your house... that way any big bad men in the world won't come and get you!

Thank you henrikegerman, for answering me and understanding that I was asking about only how the scene was played. The "other Board" tends to jump all over you". Since I saw the show so early (it MAY have even been the invited dress) I know that changes might be made. (There wasn't even a backdrop for the island scene). Since this production, director, adaptation have taken so much criticisism I really tried togo with an open mind to see the the cuts, twists etc the did made the show more clear. On several issues, this being one of them, for ME it did not. I think Norm Lewis is so handsome I would take him, with or without a limp - again - not trying to offend - this to ME made being with Porgy a whole other issue.

Again, I hope no one took offense to my question. Thanks!

I'm far more offended when a word is used intentionally to be inflammatory, like when people refer to a show they don't like as an "abortion". Audra's comment didn't even come close to resembling that. The word "raped" was heard and then removed from context to create some fictional controversy. Audra didn't make a rape joke. Seth MacFarlane probably has made a few, but it wasn't during the Tony broadcast.

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I swore I was going to stay out of this thread because tempers have risen far beyond what is justified by Ms. McDonald's comment.

But now I'm curious, Mister Matt. How is McDonald's use of an overly dramatic reference to "rape" different from the exaggeration of referring to a failed show as an "abortion"? I don't think either usage is a crime, but they seem similarly hyperbolic (and similarly lacking in tact) to me.

Thank you, Matt. I certainly agree that McDonald's comment was neither malicious nor intended to offend.

This thread has become so emotional, it bears repeating for the sake of new readers that, in fact, almost nobody has accused McDonald of killing Jesus. Most of us who objected at all merely said we cringed a little and thought she might have chosen better words.

And of course she wasn't actually joking about rape. But she did use the word as part of the set up for the joke, the punchline of which was "snort drugs with David Alan Grier." (They even cut to Grier for his reaction, a sort of spit-take.)

As I said above, this is a common sort of joke among actors in private, but I don't think the rape reference plays well on national television.

But in the end, no great harm done. McDonald's commitment to "women's issues" is well known.

Updated On: 6/14/12 at 04:51 PM