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HGiel

Topic: Rape

Many subjects that are used in humor are not only un-funny but devastating in real life, such a murder or abuse. It may seem like using them in humor makes the subect easier to deal with, or can be talked about from different angles and understood better...but that isn't always so with still taboo subjects such as rape or pedophilia.

Can loaded subjects such as rape or pedophilia ever be funny? If so, what do you think the writer has to do to MAKE them funny and not just off color or out right offensive.

I love seeing people using really shocking and offensive subject matter in their humor. Im very tired of people on TV "pushing the envelope" when all they are doing is using obvious over done humor.

#1 Aug 27th 2007, 12:05pm

fatbird33

i think that this is very true, having rape and pediphiles in a humor story is not humorous. in fact it makes me worry about the saneness of the writer, and it disgusts me. it's like their still three and into 'potty talk' excpet their vocabulary has expanded. death, however can be funny if done in the right fashion.

#2 Nov 16th 2007, 6:58am

Gai

It's a variety of things, sometimes it's just a matter of taste on the part of the author. There are lots of movies out there that have stuff like someone having sex with a dead animal. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if that was a deleted scene from Freddy Got Fingered. Part of it depends on the viewer/reader, where one may be able to laugh at something that another is offended about. It could be that the first person has no sense of dignity and laughs at less than humorous things, or it could be that the second person is just a tightass who gets offended by the word 'damn'. Some things might be more delicate of a subject to certain people because they've been personally affected by it, so they're not as able to laugh it off as the writer was. I guess it's just that taste in humor, like everything else about it, is pretty relative.

#3 Nov 25th 2007, 7:50pm

Adenil

I'm fairly certain that the reader has to be a certain type to find things like that funny. The sterotypical callous man, for instance. Somtimes, thou, these things are funny because they are so disgusting. We're grossed out and entertained at the same time. People will unfortunatly always find some humor in a disgusting joke about sex, because sex is somthing people don't feel able to talk about in any 'real' terms.

#4 Feb 13th, 9:02pm

Thoughtless7

Putting taboo subjects into humor is...tricky. And no matter what, someone, somewhere, would probably get offended, while someone else will find it hilarious. The reason for not using rape in common humor is because of the huge impact it has on its victims. It's a heavy subject, so it's hard to lighten the situation. And of course, a lot of people don't want to get in trouble so don't even mention the subject. The most common area where rape is joked about would be, I think, in certain anime fandoms, especially yaoi fandoms. From where I've been, anyways.

#5 Feb 27th, 4:46pm

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