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Matt Rife Wants Men to Like Him—So He Punches Down at Women

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The comedian best known for being a hunk says he doesn’t want to “pander” to female fans. So he opened his new Netflix special with a domestic violence joke.

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TikTok heartthrob Matt Rife is facing backlash following the debut of his first Netflix special Natural Selection. The aptly-named show became a kind of screening process for his fans’ tolerance, opening with a domestic

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