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Are Rape Jokes Funny or Distasteful?
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Glacier
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Are Rape Jokes Funny or Distasteful?
The yet to be released Simpsons/Family Guy episode is already drawing criticism from feminists and conservatives. What do you think, did they cross the line?
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Captain Awesome
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Re: Are Rape Jokes Funny or Distainful?
Meh. Family guy been crossing the line for few years now. Not only they crossed that line, they wiped the line with Pope himself and raped a monkey right over the line, came back, and threw feces at it right after.
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Dizzy1
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Re: Are Rape Jokes Funny or Distainful?
That's hardly crossing the line - they've done far more. Can't wait to watch that episode lol
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fvkasm2x
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Re: Are Rape Jokes Funny or Distainful?
If you tell me feminists are complaining, then I say they didn't cross any lines at all.
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Catz
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Re: Are Rape Jokes Funny or Distainful?
I won't even look at it. At NO POINT EVER should there be jokes about rape.
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WeatherWoman
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Re: Are Rape Jokes Funny or Distainful?
Is rape funny? I don't think so.
However distasteful it is it has created conversation in our society that opens light to the subject.
However distasteful it is it has created conversation in our society that opens light to the subject.
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JLives
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Re: Are Rape Jokes Funny or Distainful?
Nothing is off limits in comedy. Taste is subjective though.
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GordonH
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Re: Are Rape Jokes Funny or Distainful?
Before anyone actually answers this, go and ask a rape victim if anything they experience was in anyway funny. Then you will have your answer.
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Captain Awesome
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Re: Are Rape Jokes Funny or Distainful?
WeatherWoman wrote:Is rape funny? I don't think so.
What if one rapes a clown?
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JLives
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Re: Are Rape Jokes Funny or Distainful?
Clowns are not funny under any circumstances.
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Bsuds
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Re: Are Rape Jokes Funny or Distainful?
jennylives wrote:Clowns are not funny under any circumstances.
Don't they taste funny either?
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JLives
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Re: Are Rape Jokes Funny or Distainful?
I'm sure they taste like evil.
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Corneliousrooster
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Re: Are Rape Jokes Funny or Distainful?
Rape has been funny for years
For those with sensitive ears - discretion is advised
The Late Great George Carlin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQA6UStpOyQ
For those with sensitive ears - discretion is advised
The Late Great George Carlin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQA6UStpOyQ
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zzontar
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Re: Are Rape Jokes Funny or Distainful?
Corneliousrooster wrote:Rape has been funny for years
For those with sensitive ears - discretion is advised
The Late Great George Carlin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQA6UStpOyQ
He jokes about an 81 yr old woman being raped, I wonder if he'd have the same attitude if his mother or grandmother had been brutally raped? Just as funny as joking about raping little kids IMO... not at all.
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Re: Are Rape Jokes Funny or Distainful?
Rape jokes are in poor taste. But then that entire trailer is in poor taste, not just the part that mentions rape.
It never ceases to amaze me what passes for "entertainment" these days.
It never ceases to amaze me what passes for "entertainment" these days.
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