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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?

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