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http://theweaselking.livejournal.com/3030604.html?nc=67

Good discussion of a joke about violent rape.

The only conclusions I've drawn are that finding something funny or not is an objective fact, and you really can't tell what an author was thinking by looking at their work.

Re: the rape joke

Date: 2008-08-26 02:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] still-asking.livejournal.com
at least to a person who discusses years of practicing the necessary deadpan, and working on the right amount of guilt to evoke from the audience - I think he was also the originator

Re: the rape joke

Date: 2008-08-26 03:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nancylebov.livejournal.com
The point I was heading towards is that [livejournal.com profile] flemco had been date raped, and wrote the joke because that kind of humor makes it easier for them to deal with it.

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