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tania:
on the contrary, comedians often use black comedy and make light of serious subjects as a way of exploring those taboo subject areas and provoking serious thought and discussion in their audience, which is usually a step up from those topics not being discussed or brought up in the mainstream at all in the first place. as an example, i read in the news here a couple of weeks ago about a show here in the city being organized that would feature women who formerly worked in the sex trade performing stand-up comedy that would reflect their experiences in the industry as a way of both opening up about their (often traumatic) experiences in a friendly, lighthearted environment and also drawing attention to the more serious issues surrounding the sex trade which lie at the root of the whole thing. not everyone who tries to a sense of humour is a bad person, and you miss a lot of extremely important gray area by assuming that if you try to find humour in anything you obviously must be hurting someone else. it's a really powerful tool in a lot of ways, and like everything it just depends how you use it. personally, i know for a fact that i try to have a sense of humour about some bad things on a frequent basis mainly because i plan on working in an immensely upsetting environment in the future and having a sense of humour makes me feel more comfortable and prepared whenever i need to discuss those things in a more serious context, and in all honesty i wouldn't even waste a single minute of my time trying to defend myself to a person who tried to use my sense of humour to accuse me of not taking those things seriously because not only would they be wrong, they couldn't possibly be more wrong about anything.

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Inlander:
I think there's a clear difference, though, between joking about rape in the context of a comedy show, in which ideas and themes can be played out over time, explored in depth, and developed in full, and just tossing off a one-liner with "rape!" as a shock-punchline.

Graphite:
There's also a difference because within that comedy show, the performers are speaking about and working through their own experiences, and are more likely to have given at least a cursory degree of thought to the way the humour will sound to other people who've had those experiences. In contrast, a lot of the time someone will just toss off a one-liner with rape as a punchline for the sole reason that they think it makes them sound edgy.
There are ways to do these jokes well, or to find humour in dark situations - amongst friends who know each other's comfort levels, or the way Harry described, within a broader frame that makes it clear where your empathy lies, where you can be making jokes with an obnvious tone of, "Sucks that the world is like this", or when working through your own stuff (see the lyrics for Amanda Palmer's Oasis, for example, where the wryness of the humour is built on a young girl's sense of priorities and the way she chooses not to deal with what she's been through, instead focusing on youthful friendships and her excitement about a signed photo from a band she likes). It's just that that isn't usually how they're done, especially not on the internet.

Drill King, based on your writings I am guessing this is a thing you have come across before, but I'll just leave it here anyway.

McTaggart:

--- Quote from: Drill King on 02 Jan 2011, 11:19 ---cis-gendered
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is this a chemistry joke

Blue Kitty:
I was wondering the exact same thing, freaking bio chem.

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