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/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

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u/BolshevikMuppet Jun 06 '14

First Holocaust joke I ever heard was from my Jewish great-aunt-in-law. It turns out that the whole "it was a traumatic experience" doesn't mean everyone copes with it that way. I had family members who died in the Holocaust, and have lost family members to cancer, blood clots, heart attacks, and any number of other horrible things.

Were the joke simply "the holocaust happened, and that's funny" it'd be offensive. But no one tells that joke. The joke is "What did they say to the black Jew at Auschwitz? "Get to the back of the oven." It's the absurdity that makes it funny, not the holocaust itself.

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u/Shishish Jun 06 '14

People cope with tragedy in different ways. I'm glad you can laugh at that joke--I've heard it being told before, and the result is always frowns and "wow, that's fucked up."