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Thomas M. Cantine wrote:
> 
> In article <34CCDFFE.4E35@dbis.ns.ca>, Barbara Amero <amero@dbis.ns.ca> wrote:
> 
> > Locate Us of Bronze wrote:
> >  > On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, Barbara Amero wrote:
> > > ::Gordon McKenzie wrote:
> > > Barbara Amero wrote:
> >
> > > ::You say that you have strong feelins of distaste for my
> > > ::posts, but do not have any feelings of distaste for YOUR
> > > ::posts in alt.tasteless.jokes in which you demean and
> > > ::degrade women!!! And seemingly do not have distaste
> > > ::for YOUR posts in these newsgroups making light of rape,
> > > ::making rape a joke. So much for your taste/distaste.
> > >
> > > Will you get off it? Jokes are *not* automatically demeaning and degrading.
> >
> > You get off it! I did not say that jokes are automatically
> > demaning and degrading. I said the jokes Gordon posted and
> > particpated in with others were demeaning and degrading to
> > women, including a dead Nun, soon to be Saint. And any jokes
> > that make light of rape, make rape a joke are demeaning and
> > degrading!
> 
>    I haven't seen the specific jokes you're referring to (and I'm not
> particularly interested in seeing them, either), so I'm only raising a
> general question here, not aimed at any particular joke.
> 
>    I'm interested to know how you'd distinguish between a joke that makes
> light of rape and a joke about rape, or do you hold them to be necessarily
> the same thing? That is, would you want to say that a joke about rape is by
> definition a joke that makes light of rape?

I said any jokes that make light of rape, make rape a joke, 
i.e. meaning to take away the seriousness of rape, which is 
no joke. I will clarify that now by saying that any, all jokes
about rape make light of rape, make rape a joke, take away the
seriousness of rape. Rape is no joke!

Barbara A. Amero