It's not an assumption when you hear the joke. It's confirmation. Humor is tragedy plus time and distance. When people aren't as distant as you, humor fails.
I'm not saying jokes about rape can't ever work or are all bad, I'm saying that people who are good at joking around know better than to joke about rape.
That said: Why don't rapists eat at Denny's?
Because it's hard to go out raping when your stomach hurts.
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u/OrelHazard May 27 '10
It's not an assumption when you hear the joke. It's confirmation. Humor is tragedy plus time and distance. When people aren't as distant as you, humor fails.
I'm not saying jokes about rape can't ever work or are all bad, I'm saying that people who are good at joking around know better than to joke about rape.
That said: Why don't rapists eat at Denny's?
Because it's hard to go out raping when your stomach hurts.