Srsly.

[krowface]

I just was unfriended by a dotcomrad of over 10 years because I demanded people are accountable for their own actions. 

Jokes don't rape people, people rape people. Blaming magazines and billboards for sexual assault is the *same exact mentality* that rapists use to blame women for their clothes they wear.

Also, I'm saying this on the authority of being a member of a family in which the majority of the women have been raped. My mother, my sisters, my niece.... countless others who I know and love who have been assaulted. Not one of them ever blamed anyone else but the person who did it.

Also, I'm saying this on the authority of being a victim, since I'm also a rape survivor. 

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[fairyrune]

Our society treats rape quite differently from any of those other crimes/traumas, so it's not really a valid comparison.

I'm not saying you "can't" tell jokes about rape. You can tell jokes about whatever you want. However, if your compassion for other people doesn't trump your desire to tell a shitty joke, you should expect people to judge you harshly.