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So called jokes about rape!

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TerriBull Mon 01-Aug-22 12:19:14

AIBU to think that jokes about rape and killing women whatever the context are completely unacceptable and to women not funny at all.

Frankie Boyle, addressed a controversial stand up routine at the Latitude Festival recently in which he joked about raping and murdering tv presenter Holly Willoughby, he argued that the so called "joke" came within a wider context.

This is the context: in describing a game about killing and shagging people he included HW, he said this "I'd obviously kill and rape her afterwards, I'm only joking I'd rape her first"

AIBU, given the all too recent Sarah Everard case and the umpteen other women who will have been raped and kill by men his remarks are reprehensible. How is he getting away with this?

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volver Wed 03-Aug-22 20:33:45

Despite what people think, I do know when lines have been crossed. So talk of sexual violence suffered by a person posting on this thread and a former poster who has actually died, will prompt me to stop posting.

But be aware that I still think there are quite a lot of you who would rather make fun of someone who doesn't think the way they do and has an opinion you disapprove of.

Jings, crivvens, help ma boab.

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volver Wed 03-Aug-22 20:34:34

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lixy Wed 03-Aug-22 20:34:52

Callistemon,Terribull, OK poor choice of word - thought-provoking would have been better. Sorry.

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Callistemon21 Wed 03-Aug-22 20:36:42

OK lixy ?

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TerriBull Wed 03-Aug-22 20:46:25

Ok lixy

"Be aware that I still think there are quite a lot of you who would make fun of someone who doesn't think the way that they do"

Sometimes when an individual very publically makes fun of people because of the way they look or the disabilities they have to get a cheap laugh then possibly they deserve it!

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Iam64 Wed 03-Aug-22 20:51:02

I can accept you didn’t know that Jings had died.
I struggle to believe it hadn’t occurred to you that at least one of the women posting on this thread had been subjected to sexual violence.
I suspect it’s more than one poster. I too am Spartacus

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minesaprosecco Wed 03-Aug-22 22:45:27

Galaxy, thanks for mentioning Victoria Smith's piece about FB. The examples of his 'jokes' she gives are pretty nasty. Volver, did you read the whole piece or just the opening statements?

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nanna8 Thu 04-Aug-22 11:50:04

I wouldn’t waste my time on someone who thinks rape jokes are funny and defends the scumbags who tell them. Pathetic.

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