If it’s offensive, nonsensical and full of emotional triggers, why post it? Go to the chanboards for that sort of thing, we like to steer clear of it. Unless we’re discussing the serious ramifications of something like rape for our writing, most of the time to attempt emotional realism and avoid disrespecfulness to survivors, we don’t tend to discuss it.

And despite my snarkiness, my reply was not in spirit a joke. Even as a “nonsensical” joke theory, it’s really horrible and you should be shamed and shunned for it. Even with satire we can go too far, and this crosses all bounds of decency, including literary decency.

Am I a terrible person for laughing at this [and the replies that followed]? It IS just schadenfreude, you know. You were warned. braces self for tide of rage D:
Probably should’ve saved it for a place where it would’ve been better received, though, judging by the replies and the overall nature of this board [I mean, we have silly threads, but the focus of this place IS the constructive criticism of writing/the arts and not so much satire].
Still, I laugh at everything, so I guess I don’t count. shrugs

I didn’t trigger quite so strongly to that, though like Taku I didn’t like and it made me uncomfortable; the thing is, I’ve been trying to pay more attention to the way ‘rape’ is used.

Anyway, in part I passed it over, and didn’t comment when I read it at first, because being on this site I read it (or even rationalized it) as more a commentary on how culturally we don’t take the issue of rape seriously enough, which given the context of the original post was giving it too much credit, but I read it that way.

But this is an issue that really needs to be discussed, because it isn’t ever funny. Perhaps something like that could be used ‘effectively’ in juvenalian satire if it were used as an attack on the way contemporary culture does dismiss the topic of rape, and especially when it does so through “humor”. (generally I don’t think of satire as humor, exactly, even if you do laugh at it; it should make people angry).

I haven’t been on this site long, so I don’t want to take a strong stance on what it is or is meant to be, but when it comes to theories about literature, even the bad stuff, it is for real theories. As you said, it was made up in the shower and sick with fever, and that’s going to produce some crazy dreams, but most of what’s here is more thoughtful than that. Even if it starts with a nonsensical theory, if posted, most members try to work out how it would work, or give evidence. Off the cuff topics like this, perhaps, are better saved for another site.

shrugs I don’t know. Maybe Taku said all that needed to be said, especially this^^

Yes, we all make ‘Gay Vampire’ jokes but that was just offensive, especially the part about rape. Rape’s a very awful thing and should not be joked about.

Pretty much this. Well said, Kilgore.

Do you think poor Elizabeth Fritzl eventually “returned” her father’s love?

Very good example, Taku.

Do you think any rape victim anywhere would be okay with the assumption that rape=love? They would not, because it is SICK and WRONG.

Speaking as someone who has actually talked to rape victims (one of them a mere two days after it happened), I have to agree. Rape is extremely traumatic and, IMO, actually far worse than murder – for the simple and obvious reasons that a murder victim doesn’t have to live with it afterward and also rape is a deliberately evil and sadistic action (you can kill someone by accident – car, powertool, etc – but you cannot rape someone by accident).

This reminds me of a time on another forum when a new member make a “joke” about raping the two-year-old daughter of an older member.

Shit, that’s disgusting.

Maybe Taku said all that needed to be said

Yes. Yes, he did.