<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Tastes change, but I see it as moral progress that rape jokes aren’t seen as funny today. (In a similar manner, reading the Iliad (I return to it from time to time), I’ve never found the scoldinf of Thersites funny, though it seems like that is how it’s supposed to be taken.)<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="line-height: normal;"><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books at:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">http://author.to/DanUst</span></p></div></div></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Oct 30, 2019, at 12:20 PM, Darin Sunley via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">That is, I believe, the point. Literally the entire joke is that you can, in fact, use extremely technical mathematics vocabulary, traditionally considered completely clean and literally incapable of impropriety, to write something weird and rapey.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Double entendres, in general, were funnier when there were still taboos about what you could say using single entendres. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">And rapey-ness was still funny, at least in the sense of having the shock and unexpected juxtaposition generate an involuntary humor response, when A ) pain [in general] was still a respectable subject for humor, and B ) the sexuality being alluded to was considered literally unspeakable [in public at least] by one's social class.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Modern frankness about sexuality, not to mention the modern norm of [at least displaying in public] significantly expanded circles of empathy, have completely destroyed entire genres of humor.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 30, 2019, 1:02 PM Will Steinberg via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">No offense, but this is weird and rapey</div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></body></html>