Hi all, I've been looking for a post made a while back, perhaps in 2005 or 06, which is a sort of '101' level article about why rape jokes aren't funny. I've looked through Google and found a couple of things, but I'm pretty sure this was on LJ so it would probably have been un-searchable by Google. If anyone remembers it, has it linked, in
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I stumbled upon a post by Amanda Palmer a few days ago:
on Abortion, Rape, Art and Humor.
She talks about how the video to her song Oasis was censored because it was “making light of rape, religion and abortion”, and she defends her right to artistic expression, mentioning that she is a rape survivor who has had an abortion, but saying that she should be able to write a song like this even if she weren't.
I honestly don't know what to think about the video, because I haven't experienced rape, and I don't know if airing the video on MTV would be triggering to others. The 2 second rape scene in the video looks just like any sex scene, and I'm pretty unconfomrtable with presenting rape this way. On the other hand, the whole point of the video is to show how we deal with bad things by pretending they're not so bad after all, or at least that's how I understood it. Amanda says her way of dealing with what happened to her is through black humour.
Amanda writes:
"i sat down one day in or around 2002 ( ... )
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try http://blogsearch.google.com. you can also get to it from the more link on the goolge home page.
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