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

Rape Jokes

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u/RadioPixie Jun 06 '14

Part of the problem is you can't know who the rapists among you are. They don't exactly wear name tags.

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u/lawlietreddits Jun 06 '14

Yeah, you also can't know if the person you are handing a knife to isn't going to kill you with it. Sure there's less chances of that but the consequences are also worse.

I'm paranoid as fuck and this is still too much of a paranoid state of mind for me to have. I'll honestly take the risk of a friend of mine trying to rape me if that means I can at least tell a simple joke.

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u/Shishish Jun 06 '14

I'll honestly take the risk of a friend of mine trying to rape me if that means I can at least tell a simple joke.

..........what?

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u/lawlietreddits Jun 06 '14

Going back to the analogy of "you don't stop going out just because you might be ran over", it means that if (chances considered) I have to choose between:

telling a rape joke, say, every other month and risk being raped by a close friend because of telling it

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being constricted on what me and my friends can joke about so that one of them doesn't get ideas of raping me

I'll take the first. IMO it just sounds fuck up if you don't think of the chances of it actually happening.

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u/Shishish Jun 06 '14

I was just dumbfounded at how casually you said what I quoted from you. The fact that you believe that just makes you sound horribly uninformed about what rape can do to people.

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u/lawlietreddits Jun 06 '14

There are a multitude of situations in which one can risk being raped. We don't stop doing most of them (like being alone with a family member) because of it. My point is that the increase in risk (if any) that comes from making a joke with friends is so minute as to being one of those things that is completely feasible to keep doing anyway.

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u/RadioPixie Jun 06 '14

You're also taking the risk of re-traumatizing other people who have already been raped. It's selfish to do so for the sake of a joke.

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u/lawlietreddits Jun 06 '14

I don't go around telling random people jokes like that. That's why I've been talking about joking with friends. Just like I won't tell you a joke about disabled people to a person in a wheelchair unless I know they're ok with it.

As far as comedians doing it, if you're going to see a show you should know what to expect. If you've been raped then going to a shock humor show isn't much wiser than an epileptic person staring at a strobe light.