John Mayer's Rape Joke

By Ginna Green, Shakesville. Posted October 15, 2009.

That John Mayer is a huge asshole is not news. Still, it takes a special kind of huge asshole to give an interview that warrants the title: "John Mayer Threatens to Sodomize Us." Which he actually does. Because he doesn't like the reporter's questions, and complains about it through the entire interview, culminating in this exchange:

What concept [will your next record have]?
More political things, worldly things.

Such as?
Nothing rhymed with public option.

You don't always have to rhyme, though.
I'm going to forcefully sodomize your editor.

Charming. Almost as charming as

publishing the interview, which is nothing but a stream of insults against their reporter, no less under the aforementioned headline, turning Mayer's rape joke into the centerpiece of the interview.

I beg you not to read comments at the link.

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Melissa McEwan writes and edits the blog Shakespeare's Sister.

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