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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
Para phrasing but something like 'it's not like the guys there were like'we'll im not doing anything after so...'. Her phrasing and delivery was that of a joke. That's a rape joke. Shame on her, right?
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No one has said that you can't tell rape jokes. She didn't do a great job of making the distinction between "good" and "bad" rape jokes in the debate with Jim Norton, but even Lindy West is ok with rape being the subject of comedy at times. Here's a decent column of hers where she makes the distinction.
http://jezebel.com/5925186/how-to-make-a-rape-joke
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I actually agree with Daniel Tosh's sentiment in his s***ty back-pedaling tweet ("The point I was making before I was heckled is there are awful things in the world but you can still make jokes about them #deadbabies"). The world is full of terrible things, including rape, and it is okay to joke about them. But the best comics use their art to call bulls**t on those terrible parts of life and make them better, not worse. The key—unless you want to be called a garbage-flavored d*** on the internet by me and other humans with souls and brains—is to be a responsible person when you construct your jokes. Since the nuances of personal responsibility seem to escape so many people, let's go through it. Let's figure out rape jokes.
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