Joy Behar defends E. Jean Carroll’s use of ‘sexy’ to describe rape

Published June 25, 2019 4:47pm ET



Joy Behar said on The View that writer E. Jean Carroll’s use of the word ‘sexy’ to describe rape last night on CNN made sense when heard in the context of Hollywood films. Behar specifically cited Gone With the Wind, which depicted a forced marital sex between the lead characters.

Carroll appeared on Anderson Cooper 360° Monday evening to discuss her recent allegations in New York Magazine that President Trump had raped her in the dressing room of Bergdorf Goodman in the mid-nineties. She rejected use of the word ‘rape’ to describe what happened between her and Trump, saying “I think most people think of rape as being sexy. They think of the fantasies.”

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