NO. But it’s funny when it’s someone else. Duh.
(disclaimer: I didn’t actually think it was funny. It was a little too obvious, but I always appreciate the effort).
If Mom blew up in the space shuttle, I wouldn’t make jokes about her, either.
Whhhhooooosh!
(Not directed at Dio:)
One is reminded of of the sick, perverted joke in a Mel Brooks movie, which is sick and wrong and Brooks should be kicked until he bleeds.
“What crimes have you committed?”
“Rape, murder, cattle ruslin’, and rape.”
“OK, so… Wait, you said rape twice.”
“I like rape.”
As stupid and unfunny as “Up yours, nigger.”
When I watched that movie, I jabbed myself with a cattle prod every time I felt like laughing. Which I never did. Because that movie was just wrong.
We’ve secretly replaced the hot young female sitting at a computer with a male IT professional who always tries to point out that he’s a he, despite his user name.
Let’s see if he notices.
What are my choices?
I plead guilty to bad humor brought on by lack of sleep and coming into work at a rediculous hour. It sounded really funny at 3AM surrounded by lots of humming equipment but on reflection and some Paula Abdul on the radio, I see it was rather on the morbid side. Carry on.
Hey Nurse Carmen, do you get to wear those way-too tight white poylester pants? I might just give you a call indeed…
That’s what makes it so much more fun.
Sure, it’s all fun and games - until someone gets strip-searched by the assistant manager at the local McDonald’s.
Regards,
Shodan
Que? I’m not getting the whoosh. Obviously far too subtle for the likes of me.
Did you sleep through the day in school when they explained the difference between “fact” and “fiction”?
As to the OP, yes, the idea that someone would even in jest suggest that watching an actual teenage girl be sexually humiliated and assaulted is a big turn-on is fairly disgusting, even with the presence of the all-mitigating smilie. I am glad to see that kidchameleon has owned up to it, and equally glad that the phrase “I’m sorry if you were offended” was not used.
kidchameleon <> KidCharlemagne
The phrase that “a naked girl is not pretty” struck me as absurd. The phrase described her as a “little young girl”, which could be construed as pedophilic. I wanted to distance myself from that connotation, so I pointed out that this particular girl was, in fact, of consentual age. Dio then marched in all high and mighty and announced that she did not give consent for this act, which entirely misses the point that a random naked girl might, in fact, be pretty.
Geez, I realize that rape is a serious and sad thing, but why does the mention of it cause people to lose all sense of logic, humor, and perspective?
You’re assuming they had those qualities to begin with, aren’t you?
I for one welcome our new naked girl overlords.
Oh. Well, I guess I thought it was fairly clear from the source material that the phrase was more in reference to the specific situation of a naked girl who’d just been sexually assaulted and is wrapped in a blanket weeping is not a pretty sight, but OK.
Aw, and you were doing so well, don’t fuck it up now. I mean, you’ve already acknowledged that your joke wasn’t funny, there’s really no reason now to play the “can’t you take a joke” card.
Well sheesh, ya gotta take these things out of context!
So, you believed kidchameleon’s statement was a fact? Or was it, just like Blazing Saddles, an attempt at humor?
I’m sorry if you were offended. Well, not really, but Jesus Christ, it’s fairly clear he was joking. So you don’t like the joke? Try not to get your knickers in a twist over it. Otherwise, see Pedro’s post above.
If I did that then it wouldn’t be very funny indeed. And then I would become humorless and that would suck. I hope someone would be there to tell me to lighten up. These insanely stupid stories are usually good for a few laughs at least.
It wasn’t personal and it doesn’t deserve a beating. It’s possible to have enough perspective to laugh at the joke (with the right set up) without condoning rape or being turned on by sexual abuse.
So kc slept through the fact vs fiction lesson, and you went to the arcade instead of learning to read. Gotcha.
tdn was drawing a comparison between a fictional character making a joke about enjoying rape and a real person making a joke about enjoying watching a real sexual assault. It’s not a valid comparison, because, see, one is about people who don’t exist and one is about people who do. Sometimes things that are made up are funny when the same thing happening to a real person isn’t.
Actually, my knickers are fairly untwisted on the subject. I’m not sure exactly why you’re jumping on me for congratulating someone who pissed off a number of people for owning up to it without being a weasel, except that it may have something to do with your being kind of a dick.
God forbid that someone make an off-color joke in the BBQ Pit!
Actually, I wasn’t. I was saying that rape jokes are funny (sort of) when they work on the level of fun and consentual sex. Yes, when one tries to dig any deeper into it, one realizes that there’s really nothing funny about it at all. But that’s not the point of a joke. It’s a visceral reation to something that quite often has tragic underpinnings. It’s why dead baby jokes and Helen Keller jokes often work so well. An old lady slipping on a banana peel is the height of comedy. No favors are done to the world of humor when you exclaim “How can you laugh?!? The poor old dear probably broke a hip!!!”
Even then, I’d bet that kc didn’t even think on the level of rape, just on the level of naked girl. Quite frankly, that was my first thought, too.
My advice to you is to realize that it was a joke, intended as a joke, and one that fell flat, and leave it at that.
Either that or ask me why I think killing babies is so amusing.
To (probably mis)quote the aforementioned Mel Brooks, “When I fall, it’s a tragedy; when somebody else falls, it’s comedy.”
It’s “Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.”