Stop making jokes about rape
Feb. 11th, 2012 01:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ailbheAll of you. Prison rape, stranger rape, date rape, grey rape, real rape, rape-rape not like rape-rape, stop making jokes about rape.
Because it's not funny. And goodness knows you can't possibly claim it's edgy or original. Stick with something fresher, newer - chicken-crossing-road jokes, perhaps. Lightbulb jokes.
And while you're at it, stop making excuses for people who want to be allowed to make jokes about rape without being criticised for it. If they're going to joke about rape, they're going to be criticised for it, because it's not funny.
Um, except for this probably very triggering clip with an unusual perspective on the tired old rape joke, which even I found funny. And painful, but only because she is so, so right, and what she says is so, so true.
Because it's not funny. And goodness knows you can't possibly claim it's edgy or original. Stick with something fresher, newer - chicken-crossing-road jokes, perhaps. Lightbulb jokes.
And while you're at it, stop making excuses for people who want to be allowed to make jokes about rape without being criticised for it. If they're going to joke about rape, they're going to be criticised for it, because it's not funny.
Um, except for this probably very triggering clip with an unusual perspective on the tired old rape joke, which even I found funny. And painful, but only because she is so, so right, and what she says is so, so true.