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POINTLESS THREAD III: ESCAPE FROM RAPTOR MOUNTAIN AGAIN
KingOfIreland:
--- Quote from: Jace on 21 Jun 2013, 14:00 ---
--- Quote from: ZJGent on 21 Jun 2013, 10:59 ---
--- Quote from: Jace on 21 Jun 2013, 00:19 ---I get, is funny because misogyny.
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Late to the game on the opinion front, I know, but I thought it worth mentioning that it's probably more a reference to the long-running British comedy thing of the clergy being a horde of limp-wristed woman-hating chronic masturbators. Chastity vows etc etc. It's pretty much already been covered more intelligently by bainidhe_dub.
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The fuck happened to you, man? You used to be cool.
See this doesn't come across to someone who is just looking at the images and doesn't know the long running references in British comedy or the context in the show itself. The picture doesn't really give you the context other than "two guys dressed as monks" so I guess if you know about the whole monk celibacy thing it could give a slight smirk, but it still perpetuates dumb bullshit ideas about gender and not calling people out on it just leads the "its a joke" defense to seem more and more plausible. Slippery slope logic leads to rape jokes etc.
I may just be a little more sensitive since I know a few people (wouldn't call them friends exactly) who's first and primary insults are always toward comparing men, items, actions, to women as a form of insult and calling him out on it does nothing except get you called a fag or a bitch and create undue conflict.
Also not to personally attack you here LeeC, but a lot of your posts/pictures in the pointless thread feel like they're getting pulled straight from r/MensRightsFapMaterial
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GarandMarine:
I feel like this is relevant on the subject of what is and isn't funny: http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-questions-people-debating-rape-jokes-should-ask-themselves/
ackblom12:
The problem I have with that article is it still uses the same old tired 'Freedom of Speech' style of argument shut down, somehow doing so while also acknowledging you have the right to criticize. Adding a jab of people arguing against rape jokes as 'censorship' is bullshit on all but the most fringe cases. This applies to a hell of a lot of other types of jokes as well that involve race and just about every other subject. If you want to see good rape jokes that aren't total shit you don't have to look any further than someone like Louis C.K. or Wanda Sykes. It's all about what or who the punchline is.
And Patton Oswalt explains how and why his mind changed on the subject on his blog recently.
http://www.pattonoswalt.com/index.cfm?page=spew&id=167
LeeC:
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pG-KGMBYCo
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIAyyfMCetY
Blue Kitty:
--- Quote from: Ask Chris #81: Scooby-Doo and Secular Humanism ---“Because that’s the thing about Scooby-Doo: The bad guys in every episode aren’t monsters, they’re liars.
I can’t imagine how scandalized those critics who were relieved to have something that was mild enough to not excite their kids would’ve been if they’d stopped for a second and realized what was actually going on. The very first rule of Scooby-Doo, the single premise that sits at the heart of their adventures, is that the world is full of grown-ups who lie to kids, and that it’s up to those kids to figure out what those lies are and call them on it, even if there are other adults who believe those lies with every fiber of their being. And the way that you win isn’t through supernatural powers, or even through fighting. The way that you win is by doing the most dangerous thing that any person being lied to by someone in power can do: You think.”
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