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Elizabeth Kate Switaj
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Last night I went to the cheap wine and poetry event at Hugo House. I came away feeling that it had, overall, been mediocre, but the truth is that by the time the reading began I was in no mood to be open to poetry. It began when I wanted to get a glass of the $1 wine and was carded but had not brought my ID. If someone would like to explain to me how we can call this a free country when a 29-year old can’t even get a drink without showing ID, I would be quite grateful. But that’s a relatively minor complaint. What truly put me in a foul mood was the introduction to the event, in which the audience was admonished to drink responsibly lest the organizers have to carry you outside “and let the homeless have their way with you”. It’s funny because if you drink too much you get raped! And by gross homeless men! And it’s like totally transgressive to talk about homeless people as a criminal element! The really funny thing is that I can almost guarantee you that there was a rapist in the audience laughing at the joke. Laughing because it reconfirmed him as not in the class of people usually considered rapists—as too clean, too economically secure, and not lurking in the bushes. Laughing because it reconfirmed the victim as responsible for avoiding the situation in which she is raped, as if rape just happens. Laughing, like everyone else in the room, not because it was funny but because applauding such sentiments means you can be criticized. Laughter invokes the “just a joke” defense. All I could do at the time was mutter in disdain because if I had made noise about it, I would have been deemed hysterical. Related articles by Zemanta
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Hello….have you ever really heard a joke that was not underhandedly slanting someone.
I grew up having to watch people laugh at blonde jokes, polish jokes…as my name is Dorothy…Wizard of Oz jokes ect…Did I think they were funny…nope!
Annoying and lame and very unintelligent ..YES!
I have always been told I need to lsen up…that I take issues to seriously…as I am involved with many women’s issues and non are laughable…yes I guess that makes me a bit serious when it comes to female jokes…porn…photos that demoralize the normal everyday woman that does not lay around spread eagle with her fingers up her privates…ug.
It is everywhere and it really does not make me feel good about being human.
Jokes are not funny as they almost are always made at someone else’s expense!
I enjoy your thoughts!
~D~
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[...] rape jokes aren’t funny‘. You really don’t need to take my word for it, when so many other amazing, strong feminists have written about it. (warning: some are triggering.) [...]
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