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Started by Tim Wood
Fri, 31 Jan 1986 20:31
Re: the "been raped" joke.
Author: Tim Wood
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1986 20:31
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1986 20:31
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Re: the "I've been raped" joke
Let's dissect this joke here, as there seem to be people in
news-land who either don't understand it or see the humor in it.
I do this because this will relate in an interesting way to the sender.
The woman claims to have been raped when she has found that her newly-
aquired $50 bill is counterfeit. This implies that the bill was payment
for sexual favors, i.e., the woman is a prostitute. It also implies
that she performed the "service" willingly because she believed she
was being compensated, but when she finds that she wasn't, she is
retroactively withdrawing her consent for the completed act, because
she wouldn't have performed willingly had she realized she wouldn't be
compensated.
Now the joke is thoroughly de-humored. Why the analysis? To determine
at whose expense the joke is made, and why. The joke satirizes woman's
right to withdraw consent for sexual relations. The woman looks like
a fool because she gave away her body on a condition that was not met.
I will speculate that chances are that someone who has innate concern
for this society and its long-held bias against the word of women
claiming rape will not find this joke funny, nor would it occur to
him/her to tell it.
Who told it on the net? Fr. John Wolley, the literate, passionate
source of all those arguments against abortion in net.abortion.
Isn't it interesting that one who argues so consistently and at such
great length for a position which denies women fundamental control
over one of the central processes of their beings, reproduction,
should be the source of a parody of another major women's right,
control over her sexual activity? Kidding or serious, women are
losers in Fr. John Wolley's Book.
-Tim Wood
...{decvax}!ucbvax!mtxinu!sybase!tim
These opinions are at least my own.
Re: the "been raped" joke.
Author: Michael Ross
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1986 16:09
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1986 16:09
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In article <511@mtxinu.UUCP> tim@mtxinu.UUCP (Tim Wood) writes:
>Re: the "I've been raped" joke
>
>Let's dissect this joke here, as there seem to be people in
>news-land who either don't understand it or see the humor in it.
>I do this because this will relate in an interesting way to the sender.
>
>The woman claims to have been raped when she has found that her newly-
>aquired $50 bill is counterfeit. This implies that the bill was payment
>for sexual favors, i.e., the woman is a prostitute. It also implies
>that she performed the "service" willingly because she believed she
>was being compensated, but when she finds that she wasn't, she is
>retroactively withdrawing her consent for the completed act, because
>she wouldn't have performed willingly had she realized she wouldn't be
>compensated.
>
So far so good.
>Now the joke is thoroughly de-humored. Why the analysis? To determine
>at whose expense the joke is made, and why. The joke satirizes woman's
>right to withdraw consent for sexual relations.
No - it satirizes this one individual woman for her idea that she could
retro-actively withdraw consent. Anybody who thinks that retro-active
denial is ridiculous should not identify with this woman, and therefore
not be offended.
>>The woman looks like
>a fool because she gave away her body on a condition that was not met.
No more so than a merchant who takes a bad check. She looks the fool
because she thinks she's been raped, not because someone's taken
advantage of her.
>I will speculate that chances are that someone who has innate concern
>for this society and its long-held bias against the word of women
>claiming rape will not find this joke funny, nor would it occur to
>him/her to tell it.
I thought it funny, all of the women to whom I've told it thought it
was funny (some less than others, but nobody was offended - then again
I didn't tell it to any prostitutes). And I and all these women have innate
concern blah-blah-blah, so I guess your speculation just might be
unfounded, eh?
>
>
>-Tim Wood
>...{decvax}!ucbvax!mtxinu!sybase!tim
>These opinions are at least my own.
--MKR
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