[ExI] and women

[William Flynn Wallace]

Thanks for your support.  I agree that many terrible jokes are truly
funny.  bill w

On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 11:36 AM Will Steinberg via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 12:15 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> Very, very often jokes are about fear.  Some whites don't like blacks and
>> are afraid of them in many ways, so they make up demeaning names for them
>> and tell degrading jokes.
>>
>> Men are often afraid of beautiful women, so they make up jokes about dumb
>> blondes.
>>
>> People are afraid of death so they make up jokes about St Peter and the
>> gate, etc.
>>
>> If you are afraid of something and want to make up jokes about it, like
>> whistling through the graveyard, I can't stop you, but it tells me
>> something about you when you demean others.
>>
>> Horrible experiences like rape are something to make fun of?  Are you
>> serious?  I cannot think of anything more demeaning to women.
>>
>> bill w
>>
>
> I agree, Bill.  I doubt anyone who has been raped would post such a joke.
> Particularly a laborious euphemistic description of someone being raped out
> of their virginity.  I'm all for free speech, but who could read that and
> not be sickened?
>
> My opinion slightly differs from yours in that I think there are probably
> funny jokes on all topics.  After all, we make jokes about cancer, murder,
> etc.  So I don't deny the possible existence of a rape joke that is funny.
> For example, I made this video with my best friend, and she has been a
> victim of such: https://www.instagram.com/p/BvkerKPFLu2/ .  I think that
> video is funny.  But the joke posted to the list didn't have a lot of
> humor, rather just a drawn out description of rape.  Just a strange thing
> to be amused by.
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