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Humorless busybodies force Seinfeld apology

Check out this TVSquad item from June 22, about how Jerry Seinfeld, during promotion for his upcoming “Bee Movie,” said the following:

Bees have the only perfect society on earth … They have no crime, they have no drugs, they have no rape. A little rape, but it’s not that bad.

Offensive and shocking is how the professionally and perpetually offended and shocked described it. Click on Radar Online for the sputtering, the indignance and the harumphing.

I don’t find anything funny about rape. I was only referring to the insect world. I’m sorry if anyone got upset.

“Rape is not a joke,” says an earnest one. “It’s the most violent crime a person can live through. It is an incredibly traumatic experience that should be seriously treated and never made light of.”

Never? Even if, like Seinfeld’s joke, it isn’t really about rape?

Click on The Male Half’s YouTube video and wait for the joke that starts at the 2:00 mark. For the record, he isn’t apologizing.

Tip of the hat to Randy Masters for the heads up!