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Originally Posted by longsuffering
Rape affects a significant portion of the population.
I wonder if you'd still feel rape jokes are so funny if your wife, mother, sister, daughter were raped.
Don't think of it in the abstract. Think of how it impacts very real people.
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So do jokes about cancer, abortion, and a long long list of things that could possibly trigger painful memories/experiences.
My point is not to go out looking to make rape jokes to random people, but when you go to a comedy show you should expect there is a good chance something joked about might be offensive, even emotionally hard to deal with.
I know people who have been raped, who doesn't. Its horrible, but comedy and humor is complex and something very personal to each individual. What is a trigger for one person is another person's favorite joke. So what I keep asking is what do you suggest, we ban a line of jokes, do we forbid this?
Comedy has ALWAYS pushed these lines and comedians take great risks for a laugh. I personally find that I deal with horrible situations often through comedy, others want to deal with it their own personal way, fine but what it always comes down to is what do you want, to pass laws against this? Shame comedians who dare touch sensitive subjects?
Who decides what is and is not offensive?
Its just not going to happen, and you can call me insensitive and misogynist and whatever else people will decide to judge me for, but I am not any of those things, I just love humor that shocks and challenges society in terms of what is ok to talk about and what is ok to mock.