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Originally Posted by bcsoda
There's a difference between offending someone and triggering someone. 1 in 3 women in Canada are victims of sexual assault. That means that there are women in everyone's life that this actually seriously affects. Being raped is highly traumatizing to the point that it can cause PTSD. A joke making fun of someone's accent is probably going to offend a lot of people, but it's much less likely than a rape joke to actually emotionally harm them.
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Don't go to a comedy show. Nothing is off limits there. If youve experienced the sort of trauma that causes you to flash to something horrible when the subject is brought up, then this form of live entertainment is not for you.
I would also wonder why a show like SVU isn't tarred with this brush, since it's been doing commercially exploiting the drama of rape for nearly two decades. (I realise that's an over simplification)