"The rise of rape talk"

mglover070588 said:
I crack off rape jokes now and then, but no more than homosexual jokes, race jokes, religous jokes, poor jokes, rich jokes, Scottish Jokes, American Jokes, French Jokes, German jokes, Welsh jokes, disability etc.

It is only a joke.

The world needs to stop worrying about being PC and get on with life.
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Surely though it is all about context and audience? If you know the audience is going to find it funny then it isn't an issue, but you tailor your language dependant upon who is around surely?

Or is being polite considered PC these days?
 
I don't get offended by it, I'll have laughed at plenty of jokes, but I don't use the term word rape or gay outside of what I feel their context is. I used to call people '****' quite a bit, until my wife got pregnant and I realised what I'd feel like if my son had Downs. Again, I'm not offended by it, but there's plenty of other ways I can describe something that probably won't offend someone.
 
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RDM said:
Surely though it is all about context and audience? If you know the audience is going to find it funny then it isn't an issue, but you tailor your language dependant upon who is around surely?

Or is being polite considered PC these days?
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I would never tell such joke at work, as all you need is someone who is PC to complain and you can get the sack for some things.
 
It's just another word losing its meaning when used in conversation - I hear interviews on the news all the time with people saying how 'shellshocked (come on, do they even know what shellshock is!!??), devastated, or deeply traumatized they are about someone stubbing their toe. People just want more ways to sound dramatic because they don't have the vocabulary to say what they actually mean. Joking about rape does get some quick laughs though (provided there are no girls about) - or media coverage.
 
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GreatAuk said:
It's just another word losing its meaning when used in conversation - I hear interviews on the news all the time with people saying how 'shellshocked (come on, do they even know what shellshock is!!??), devastated, or deeply traumatized they are about someone stubbing their toe. People just want more ways to sound dramatic because they don't have the vocabulary to say what they actually mean. Joking about rape does get some quick laughs though (provided there are no girls about) - or media coverage.
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actually it's regaining it's original meaning.
 
Too much worry about the little things once again. I do love people that expect me to bust out a thesaurus everytime I want to express something.

What he said was funny, regardless of the meaning of the word.

Intelect has nothing to do with your use of language, the Prof where I work is the single most foul mouthed person I have ever met.

Please correct my grammar and spelling, I will fap to it tomorrow. :rolleyes:
 
it is just a word. Language would be dull were it not for the variety of different sociolects. It is a sad event to occur but it would be daft to presume a person as bad when a word is used in an appropriate context (and yawn rape will never cease to be amazing).
 
KNiVES said:
I realize this, but I was getting at that when somebody says 'man I feel like I was raped' after participating in a marathon, it doesn't really view the marathon at the same level as being raped. It just erodes the severity of rape in the social consciousness.
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Are you having a giraffe. No one thinks that rape is a joke just because people use it for everyday situations they didnt like.

You will never find someone who talks to a rape victim and says "well, if we're honest, my mate dave ran the london marathon last week and said he felt like he'd been raped and he was fine in a few days. Suck it up love"

Its like every other word that people use. Its just a word, gay, raped, rinsed, merked, ******. If you choose to take the word out of the context on the sentence just to make yourself feel morally superior to the user then go for it.

I wouldnt care if someone I knew used the word rape in a jokey way; even if I knew someone who had been raped. I wouldnt magically deem any use of the word rape horrendously offensive. I wouldnt use it around the victim but most people dont think rape is a joke.

They just like the word.

People become desensitised to words when the word is used too much or out of its offensive context. Rape will never been considered 'just one of those things' because people use the word.
 
Taking offence on other people's behalf or just for the sake of being offended is pathetic and I go out of my way to offend such people even more! :D

(Ok I don't really, as I'm generally super passive, but you know, sometimes, some people just really rile you and you just feel the need to wind them up!)
 
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