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Which is fine. But I'm questioning the guy's intent here. I don't believe this made everyone laugh all the time forever and I don't believe that was the goal.

Oh I see what you're saying. I'm talking about the intent of the joke-teller. I don't believe that 'rape room' was intended to be funny. I think it was supposed to be darkly edgy and possibly even insulting. Then, when they were called on it, it became a 'joke.' I'm calling bullshit on their definition of joke because…

It's not a definition. It's how comedy works. If a comedian gets on stage and his entire set bombs, he can blame the audience all he wants, but it's on him as a performer because comedy is subjective. He can learn from it or just keep trying the jokes. When you make a joke you're performing. If you fail, you fail. If…

I don't think I said any subject couldn't be a joke...I think some would-be comedians confuse 'could be funny' with 'is funny' and then blame their audience for their own piss poor execution.

Probably, and if someone doesn't laugh, the joke has failed and the joke-teller should identify that and apologize or at least recognize the failure. Insisting that it is just a joke suggests that any subject is automatically funny because it has the potential to be. If your joke fell flat, that's on you. In this case…

Then the moment it didn't make someone laugh is the moment the joke failed, and it is the fault of the joke-teller, not the audience. If everyone laughed at it, and suddenly she didn't, the dude probably should have reacted in a professional way and asked why and/or apologized. Her boss absolutely should have. If a…

Or it didn't at all, and no one said anything so waves were not created.

Maybe, but can you see how it's WAY worse if it's YOUR van. And doing it around someone who's new or you don't know is bad judgement either way..

Right, and then it's an inside joke, not just a joke. If I said to my husband (around a new friend) "Smells like blue paint," (super funny if you know the story) and then said to the confused new friend, "Jeeze, it's just a joke," they would rightly see me as an asshat.

Just a joke... a 'joke' isn't something you say because it's rebellious/weird/quirky to you. A joke is funny. A joke is something that makes you and other people laugh. A joke's entire purpose is to creature humor.

It was already a physical encounter. He was physically encountering her.

I've been trying to buy a car lately and it's been a nightmare. Sometimes I can't even get a salesperson to show me cars or talk to me. I had one guy say "Yeah we have one of those," and point it out, only to walk away and never return. Another guy told me my request was "tough" and then stared at me until I awkwardly…

If they're deceitful and dangerous...couldn't they be deceitful and dangerous without the law? If someone can pass, couldn't they already sneak into one of these areas? Heck, they could do it as a guy for some places! It's not like bathrooms are guarded. This law doesn't protect the deceitful and dangerous sneakers.…

IT'S JUST A COMPLIMENT!!!!

Totes! And confusing. "Why did you hit her with that?" "Why did you put that in your mouth?" "Why did you climb that?" "How did that possibly register as a good idea!?"

I worked an eight hour kids camp every day for 3 - 13 year olds for five years. She can cry me a river.

It was like 4 hours! She couldn't keep it together for 4 hours!?

Tanith Lee's novel Bite The Sun had temporary marriages. You could get married for the afternoon, for example.

How do we assure people we're taking our female character seriously?