"I've only been to Baltimore one time I
ate lunch there and the hostess who like
seats you at the restaurant had a black
eye a full black and it wasn't like what
happened it was pretty obvious what
happened and we couldn't get over the
fact that we're like this is the face of
the company like this is this is who you
have greeting people and my boy who I
was with was like yeah I feel bad for
her man I feel like they should put her
in the kitchen or something where nobody
nobody has to see her face you know and
I was like yeah but I feel like if she
could cook she wouldn't have that black eye."
Matt Rife’s joke is a classic example of misogyny disguised as humor and it only empowers abusive men to be violent with little or no provocation. Joking about domestic violence which so often escalates to serious injury or death is a pathetic way to get a laugh. Maybe if he was a better comedian, he wouldn’t have to use jokes about domestic violence victims to get a laugh. If only his Netflix special was actually funny.