I find it strange people are getting all bent out of shape over a joke about a situation in which everything turned out fine in the end.
Isn’t it common practice around here to start threads based on making puns and other wisecracks about someone who just died some (usually) bizarre death?
Nobody was raped, nobody in the actual situation made the joke… I fail to see what all the fuss is about.
Phouka, the woman who nearly bit you head off when you touched the area between her beck and face, was her name Helen?
The reason I said I’d leave had nothing to do with the woman’s behaviour; I just didn’t how me staying would have helped. It doesn’t sound like it would have made the woman any calmer.
You’re entitled to make a terrible joke about rape, and others are entitled to say what they thought of it. Freedom of speech goes both ways - it doesn’t mean ‘freedom to say shitty things with no comeback.’ If you can’t handle people criticising you for making a joke about rape, then don’t make a joke about rape.
Sure, it was a bit of a fuss. Usually if you don’t find a joke funny, you don’t laugh, or otherwise ignore it. Here we had a handful typing in that it made them feel ill and others rushing in to assure them that “surely it was only about peeing on the woman”, when it clearly was a joke that was dealing with rape.
Somehow I think all the bad names she’s been called would kinda take the shine off that comfort a bit. And the rape jokes would probably send her back over the edge.
I’m still marveling over the fact that she stuck her arm in and got stuck. I keep being reminded of that Simpsons where Homer stuck his arms in the vending machine to get soda. Apparently people like this exist in real life…
The other way to look at it is this: If the OP had returned the next morning and found her still there (in what kind of state, I’m afraid to guess) would he have still felt like he made a ethically defensible decision? I have a feeling the answer to that is no.
Just because things apparently worked out (and we don’t even know that it did…help could have showed up hours later) doesn’t change the analysis as to whether he did the right thing.
No way. I had only one post, and I didn’t complain of any negative physical symptoms caused by the other posts. Therefore, no fuss. Mine was more of a critique, if you will. Now, the longer we talk about it, the closer it will come to being an actual fuss. : )
I don’t see anyone else making more than one post either. Well, except me now, but that’s because of your post - round and round we go. Making a fuss would be a pit thread started on it, or if everyone had reported it (I didn’t because it was just a joke, even though it was one I found horrible in many ways , including that it wasn’t funny).
It is kinda sweet that some people thought he meant peeing, not rape.
What did I miss here? A handful of posters, a veritable torch-bearing mob with me and my pitchfork at the helm. Shouting “ICK!!!” and “NOT VERY FUNNY!!!” and “I REALLY DISLIKED THAT!!!” Dude, I don’t even see anyone saying that the estimable Peanuthead and cohort shouldn’t have made the jokes - we just voiced our objection on grounds varying from “not funny” to “uncomfortable.” Perhaps it is you who should grow a thicker skin. Rape jokes are allowed on this board, but polite objection to jokes is also allowed.
Making a fuss would be a pit thread started on it, or if everyone had reported it (I didn’t because it was just a joke, even though it was one I found horrible in many ways , including that it wasn’t funny).