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Hannah Gadsby has had a busy 2018.
Her Netflixstand-up specialNanetteinspired plenty ofpraiseanddebate, she landed abook deal, and she stole the showat this years Emmys.
Now today, she delivered the opening remarks atThe Hollywood Reporters2018 Women in Entertainment gala.
They get prime-time TV and the late shows.
Some of my best friends are Jimmy.
If only these bad men just knew how not to be creepy!
Is that the problem?
Men are not creepy.
Do you know whats creepy?
Spiders, because we dont know how they move.
Rejecting the humanity of a woman is not creepiness; it is misogyny.
So why cant men monologue about these issues?
Well they can, and they do.
My problem is that according to the Jimmys, theres only two types of bad men.
And then there are the FOJs: the Friends of Jimmy.
These are apparently good men who misread the rules garden-variety consent dyslexics.
They have the rule book, but they just skimmed it.
Oh, that a semicolon?
I thought that meant anal.
Sorry to the vegans in the room.
Here is the line.
There are all the bad men.
Lets call it Kevin.
And lets never call it that again.
We need to talk about how men will draw a different line for every different occasion.
You know why we need to talk about this line between good men and bad men?
Because its only good men who get to draw that line.
All men believe they are good.
We need to talk about this because guess what happens when only good men get to draw that line?
Women should be in control of that line, no question.
