Most responses to offensive jokes could be offensive to someone, where should we draw the line?

This whole problem could be eliminated, of course, if the original jokes were never told, and therefore there would be no hostility to respond to, right?

These jokes (and they are jokes) are to challenge the traditional power structure that is currently in place. Jokes that don't challenge it reinforce it and are therefore hostile. It's often difficult to react to hostility with reason, especially when those you're arguing with are not swayed by facts. As a result,…

And they automatically dig their heels in rather than try to understand a new perspective, which is exactly how racism is born.

I'm guessing you're a troll. And I'm guessing you mean this as silly hyperbole, but no, really. Mind your own business in public. If you don't have the social awareness to understand why/when a woman wouldn't want to talk to you, don't talk at all.

Right there with you, girl. Virtual hugs on their way!

This certainly seems to be the case with most guys I know, certainly most guys I've dated. My one ex especially is a National Guardsman, and he turned into a sniveling man-child whenever his temperature broke 100 degrees.

Yup. And as a kid, I had *everything* PowerPuff Girls. I even dressed up as Buttercup for Halloween. I had pillows, school supplies, action figures, tapes, a throw blanket...everything. "Little girls don't buy toys." Suck my tits, that's bullshit and they know it! Why would they purposefully alienate half the…

Does the same principle apply? Then yes, I'd probably correct you. Fuck me. Get a life, would you?

Sorry, I missed the part where it was my fucking job to go educate the entire internet. I responded to you. You couldn't defend your point, so now you're making it out like I have to go and seek out every single person who's ever made the same mistake and correct them? Logic at its finest...

But in order to accurately describe rape, you need the implication of a non-accident, okay? With me so far? Tragedy, while it implies neither accident nor non-accident, is still not accurate because the definition of rape needs to include that non-accident denotation in order to be accurate. Understand now?

Uh, no. I pointed out that it's not the best word to use when describing rape because it doesn't call attention to the fact that rape is not an accident. This is important when describing rape because it differentiates it from things that are accidents, which you would understand if you actually had any semblance of…

For men (which is the only way I actually have experience) it stimulates the prostate. It's apparently the most intense orgasm a man can have. For women, I have no idea. I'm told that it's possible to stimulate the g-spot via the rectum, but I've never tried it (probably won't...not my cup of tea). But the dudes I've…

Reminds me of the time my last boyfriend got me a new strap-on for HIS birthday, hehe. Probably a "friend" who hoped she'd put them to good use...

Right, I just meant to show that his analogies were completely off-base.

Because it's relevant. When you use the wrong metaphors and words to talk about rape, it calls into question whether you really understand rape at all.

Okay. Let's just put this shit to bed. Rape is not a tragedy. It's not a force of nature. It's not an accident or a mistake. Rape is when someone chooses to violate the bodily autonomy of someone else against their will. I get what you were trying to say, but it's apples to oranges.

I can get why you'd be upset, but let's not pretend that people being anti-religion is somehow the same as people being anti-woman. They're fundamentally different principles. You choose your beliefs, you don't choose your gender. Therefore, it's really not the same for someone to say, "It's silly to believe ____" as…

Depends on the person. My boyfriend died in March. We were living together and, barring some great shift in personalities, would have been married someday, I think. As disgustingly awful as it was to lose him, and as much as I still ache for him, it didn't even really occur to me to think, "Maybe there is a god." or…

Yeah, but until it's gone, I'm certainly not taking responsibility for male reactions to naked photos. Don't put the pressure on us to change men's minds. There's too much of that already.