Brittney Griner is gay

[AlaskanAssassin]

I haven't seen Borat in a few years, so I'll withhold comment there.

A joke about not being able to get someone in bed ends with the person not getting someone into bed (such as "Dinner plus alcohol plus the cost of the medicated lotion for your hand, it adds up"). The need to rape is an unneeded addition that diminishes rape.

I'm not sure if the roofie part was needed or not. Maybe using a roofie on someone seems more outlandish and absurd than masturbating. I would imagine that more people are familiar with the second experience vs. the first, thus making the first a little more ridiculous and possibly funnier.

I'm not sure how exactly the joke diminishes rape. Did it diminish rape in your mind? How can you assume that it diminished rape in the minds of others? Perhaps the absurd nature of the joke reminded many of how abhorrent the crime actually is.

 

[One Brow]

I would imagine that more people are familiar with the second experience vs. the first, thus making the first a little more ridiculous and possibly funnier.

Would it have been more ridiculous, and therefore funnier, is the other person in the date were aged 10? Or, is it funny to drug an adult for the purposes or rape, but not a child? Is it that raping the child is so much less outlandish and absurd than raping an adult, so it's not as funny?

Associating anything particular thing as the object of a joke diminishes the threat/horror associated with that thing; from what I can tell, it one of the main reasons we have a sense of humor. While no one joke turns opinions 180 degrees, the cumulative effect over time is significant.

 

[One Brow]

No one should diminish the greatness that is rape. No one.

With very good luck, you'll never experience it nor have a close friend/family member who does.

 

[Stoked]

With very good luck, you'll never experience it nor have a close friend/family member who does.

That above sentence applies to me and I'm not pretending fake offense.

 

[NAOS]

The social function of a comedian is to invest any conceivable nook with laughter.
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A good joke and a bad joke come from the same birth.

Therefore,
you can hate a joke after the fact (if you want), but you can't hate comedy, and you have to live with its unbridled potential.

 

[One Brow]

That above sentence applies to me and I'm not pretending fake offense.

How sure are you the sentence applies to you, really, when under-reporting is such a huge issue?

Offense is not relevant to my point.

 

[Stoked]

How sure are you the sentence applies to you, really, when under-reporting is such a huge issue?

Offense is not relevant to my point.

Fairly certain my mom didn't lie about it.

 

[Scat]

With very good luck, you'll never experience it nor have a close friend/family member who does.

That above sentence applies to me and I'm not pretending fake offense.

It applies to me as well and I thought the joke was funny.

 

[AlaskanAssassin]

Would it have been more ridiculous, and therefore funnier, is the other person in the date were aged 10? Or, is it funny to drug an adult for the purposes or rape, but not a child? Is it that raping the child is so much less outlandish and absurd than raping an adult, so it's not as funny?

I can't explain 100% why some things cross the line, and others don't. I could see myself laughing someone telling me "The only way you could get laid is with a roofie." I could NOT see myself laughing at someone telling me "The only way you could get laid is by molesting a 10 year old." Maybe kids are just off limits with these types of jokes.

Associating anything particular thing as the object of a joke diminishes the threat/horror associated with that thing; from what I can tell, it one of the main reasons we have a sense of humor. While no one joke turns opinions 180 degrees, the cumulative effect over time is significant.

I would think that it would be a very weak-minded person that would allow a long series of roofie-based jokes to have any effect on their feelings towards the acceptance of rape or another sex crime. If I joked with my friend "I'm going to kill you if you are late again!", I think everyone would understand that it's a joke and that I am not diminishing murder. Nor do I think it would have any cumulative effect on anyone hearing it over and over again.

 

[MoreFeasts]

If I joked with my friend "I'm going to kill you if you are late again!", I think everyone would understand that it's a joke and that I am not diminishing murder.

This would bother me even though the roofie joke doesn't.

 

[One Brow]

I can't explain 100% why some things cross the line, and others don't. I could see myself laughing someone telling me "The only way you could get laid is with a roofie." I could NOT see myself laughing at someone telling me "The only way you could get laid is by molesting a 10 year old." Maybe kids are just off limits with these types of jokes.

Please ask yourself why kids are off-limits, and adults are not, whether or not you share the answer.

I would think that it would be a very weak-minded person that would allow a long series of roofie-based jokes to have any effect on their feelings towards the acceptance of rape or another sex crime.

Really? You think there are people that don't learn from culture, respond to culture, incorporate the culture around them?

If I joked with my friend "I'm going to kill you if you are late again!", I think everyone would understand that it's a joke and that I am not diminishing murder. Nor do I think it would have any cumulative effect on anyone hearing it over and over again.

Really? Even if you hear it from just about every adult you respect growing up, not just in jokes, but in dozens of different judgments?

Do you have children? Do you try to teach them right from wrong? If so, is that because weak-minded people, so you can have an effect on them? Or is it that even srtong-minded people still learn from the examples around them and respond in like fashion?

 

[Hartsock]

That above sentence applies to me and I'm not pretending fake offense.

Me either