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To which I would add that jokes are subjective. Declaring that X "is not funny" just doesn't parse as a sentence to me, and indicates that the speaker has failed to understand humour in particular and taste in general.
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Rape jokes
Date: 2012-07-14 08:10 pm (UTC)That said, if you heckle a comedian he or she will say really shitty things to you in return. If you heckle him during a boring rape joke, he's going to come back with rape jokes directed at you.
Uh, no. That does not talking about how funny if a woman in the audience got gang raped okay, not remotely, that's a threat, not a joke. Regardless of what a heckler said, what he did was sociopathic.
The best way to stop rape jokes is to ignore them.
Like bullying, cyberstalking, harassment, what planet does he live on? Everything after point 2 is about lecturing people to shut up about hate speech. At least some links in the comments section was useful:
http://feminist-armchair-regime.blogspot.com/2012/07/tosh0-shows-rape-of-teen.html
http://studentactivism.net/2012/07/12/for-daniel-tosh-actually-assaulting-women-is-comedy/