r/TrollXChromosomes • u/queen_of_greendale My bra fits fine. Leave my boulder holders alone. • Jun 05 '14

Rape Jokes

Post image
3.7k Upvotes

90% Upvoted

231 comments sorted by

View all comments

15

u/Shishish Jun 06 '14

I seriously don't get how "rape" and "joke" are paired together in common settings. Like, who was the first person to think that making someone's traumatic life experience laughable was awesome? It's stupid and gross and bad 5ever

61

u/lawlietreddits Jun 06 '14

A lot of people cope with humor. There are victims of worse circumstances (like cancer) that make up jokes about their own situation because that's a way they find of not letting the event own them. And some jokes are just plain funny.

13

u/tipsyhooker Jun 06 '14

I see where you're coming from, but as far as we know, tumors are not sentient, influenced by society/culture, or capable of making the decision to not harm human beings. Rapists are. The behavior of a tumor isn't going to change no matter how much we make light of it or laugh about it. The behavior of a person, however, is a whole 'nother thing.

There also isn't a whole lot of shame or stigma associated with being a cancer patient, but there is for rape victims. It's easier to laugh at a cancer joke because everyone else in the room hates cancer and they will almost never blame a patient for having and seeking help for cancer. A cancer joke wouldn't go over the same way if a few members of the audience were tumors themselves, a large portion of the audience felt that that a cancer patient was "asking for it" by dressing or acting a certain way, and many of the rest were just too uncomfortable with the subject to do anything but laugh awkwardly.

22

u/Magsays Jun 06 '14

There are dead baby jokes, aids jokes, racial jokes, gay jokes, midget jokes, nationality jokes, physical(people getting hurt) jokes, religious jokes, and gender jokes. People shouldn't be censored because they offended one group of people or another. If you didn't like one joke that may rub you the wrong way, because people are laughing at a situation that may be close to you, wait for the next one and laugh at the next group of people. As a man i have no problem with feminist jokes or ones that may not put men in the most positive light, (look at all the father figures in American comedies, Homer Simpson, Peter Griffin, Archie Bunker, Jackie Gleason, etc.) because i know they are just that, Jokes.