# Joking about rape

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joking-about-rape/699915>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [September 29, 2014, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joking-about-rape/699915 "2014-09-29T23:55:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joking-about-rape/699915/61 "2014-10-08T01:58:59Z")

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> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#):
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> Which is, once again, bullshit. Politeness & decorum exist to grease the wheels of society–to make it easier to for people to get along with one another. That is why persons with social awareness understand that there are some topics you do not joke about, at least not in public.
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> Your resistance to politeness and decorum disturbs me.

Cool; we seem to disagree.

IMO, unless humor (or an attempt at humor) is serving to beat down an already beaten-down sector of society (in which case I’m unlikely to find it humorous anyway), my only criterion for its appropriateness is whether it is funny to me or not.

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