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Censoring an old strip?
Neko_Ali:
I would argue the point that the fact that a rape survivor does survive is a part of the difference. It's always true that people who know those who have been raped or murdered and it affects them. But if a person is a victim of murder, then they don't have to worry about it anymore. On the other hand, a person who survived rape, sometimes multiple rapes or ongoing molestation that can last for years.. it is a much more personal and affecting issue for them. The worst part of it though is the fact that people play the victim blaming game. So this person who has already suffered through one of the most horrible things someone can go though has to keep hearing how it was somehow their fault, that they are bad people, that 'some girls just rape so easily' and all that sort of thing.
The problem is how society in general views rape. It's not just that people suffer it, it's is that there is this whole idea that 'it's not that bad', or people deserve it, or people seek it out.. The whole rape culture is the problem, and the joke in that comic was part of the problem. The sort of attitudes at play in it are a bigger problem than offending someone who has suffered rape or knows someone who had.
A joke like that may be just one tiny drip in the ocean.... but one drip after another after another after another wears down a mountain over time...
mustang6172:
As long as we're making this acceptable to the modern public, how about adding a guitar solo to Beethoven's 9th Symphony? Right between the 3rd and 4th movements!
Valdís:
Yes, clearly that is a terrible tragedy. We should keep perspective as to what really matters in life: make-believe guns.
Why, next they'll be telling us not to trivialize rape if we let this go on. Truly this is the face of oppression.
(Also no, that isn't unacceptable either, that's just your nostalgia talking. Just watch the older version if you don't like it. I also wasn't aware you're not allowed to remix music. Man, a lot of people are in trouble then!)
mustang6172:
I didn't realize a mention of hypothetical rape in a cartoon (literally make-believe within make-believe) was more important than guns within a single level of make-believe.
DSL:
Jeph became uncomfortable with that particular joke being in there, he had the power to change it, and so he did. Works for me.
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