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So called jokes about rape!

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Smileless2012 Mon 01-Aug-22 12:36:50

Didn't know he'd done thatshock.

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Shinamae Mon 01-Aug-22 12:36:39

Well what do you expect from HIM?

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TerriBull Mon 01-Aug-22 12:34:54

I thought he'd scraped the bottom of the barrel when he cast slurs about Harvey Price, Katie Price's disabled son, but clearly he can go a lot lower, still the BBC don't seem bothered hmm

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Wheniwasyourage Mon 01-Aug-22 12:24:16

Yes, totally unacceptable. YANBU at all.

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Blossoming Mon 01-Aug-22 12:24:05

This kind of ‘joke’ was never funny.

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Smileless2012 Mon 01-Aug-22 12:23:41

No, you are not being unreasonable but I suppose people who go and see the likes of Frankie Boyle know what they're getting and his 'sense of humour' appeals, but goodness knows why.

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grannylyn65 Mon 01-Aug-22 12:21:46

Gives animals a bad name

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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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