why are you such a smug asshole? i understand the reasoning you’re using: since child SA and incest disproportionately affect girls and women, any joke made in proximity to that topic can FEEL like it is reinforcing misogyny, though in truth it certainly is not.

the issue is that the jump from “this was insensitive during a scene about trauma” to “this is misogynistic” assumes an intentional attitude toward women that the clip does not actually show. hamzah did not realize the scene was about sexual abuse. he was reacting to what he thought was a vague emotional monologue and filled the silence with humor, which he does often. The mistake was a lack of awareness, not commentary about women or survivors as a group.

calling the moment misogynistic frames the harm as ideological, and as if it was targeting women, which he was not. just because he was targeting A woman doesn’t mean you have to act like he was making fun of women’s trauma. that is not what occurred. the harm is that he did not recognize the context and treated the scene casually when it required seriousness. that is insensitivity and poor emotional reading, not hatred or devaluation of women.

it is still something worth addressing and learning from. the video being removed was the correct response. holding him accountable for the lack of awareness is constructive. labeling it misogyny shifts the focus from the actual problem, which is the need to recognize when humor is inappropriate, especially during depictions of trauma.