Your thoughts on a great man's view on rape?

Question

This guy was courageous and his humor will never be matched. Rape can be FUNNY! He just proved it. Hilarious I love this guy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3av_qRR_DWc&feature=related

Answer 1

It is like the "great Man" himself, vulgar, profane and being godless, void of social morales.

Answer 2

Very disturbing stuff. Everyone does have their own view on what is funny. I don't find anything about rape funny myself because of the damage it does to the person, families, friends..etc.. of both the victim and the assailant. I am not going to tell you what you should or should not find funny, but I suggest you make sure that, with this brand of humor, you are careful about where you express it.

Answer 3

I didn't watch the video, but I have made jokes out of my own sexual abuse.

I think it's my way of coping since I can't really do anything about it....Since I'm the victim, maybe I give myself the permission to make fun of it. If someone else made fun of me for it, it wouldn't be okay.

Answer 4

Don't listen to that first women she didn't watch the video..  I know lots of women that were either attempted rape victims or rape victims and got a really good laugh out of that... He was an amazing man who made us laugh at the stupidity of our world... May he rest in peace...

Answer 5

I don't have the ability to watch whatever you posted, but rape is never funny.  Think of the worst thing that has ever happened to you, and see if you find anything funny about it!!!

Answer 6

Here's another one for you gadgit

http://youtube.com/watch?v=XD5L2CxRMG4&f...

I think super ruper made the best point of all. It's not a commentary about rape being funny, you have to look beyond the outside joke and realize it's a commentary on censorship and what we can and cannot say in this country. George Carlin was a good and HILARIOUS man. It's a shame he died.

I personally know people who were raped who LOVE this comedy routine.

There is all sorts of things that shouldn't be funny.

Sexist jokes geared towards men and women SHOULDN'T be funny but they are.

Jokes about 9/11 SHOULDN'T be funny but they are.

The only way we can and will get through and over things if by laughter.

Answer 7

It wasn't about rape being funny - it was a commentary on censorship and people deciding what we can joke about and what we cannot.  George Carlin made people think - he pushed boundaries.  For that, we should all be very grateful...

Answer 8

The sad thing is not that he jokes about rape, but that he thinks of it as a crime of passion.

I wonder if he'd have written this if he himself had ever been raped.  Humor is subjective.  Just because someone doesn't laugh at what made you laugh does not mean they don't have a sense of humor.

Answer 9

OH. MY. GOSH. HOW!? HOW do people find rape FUNNY!?!?!?! How can someone possibly find something as horrible, degrading, humiliating, not to mention scarring, FUNNY?!?!?!? Obviously he has never been raped. Now, I don't like to get on people's cases about free speech, because I believe in it very strongly, but some things are just SICK to find funny.

Answer 10

i watched half of it..

i really tried to find the humor in it..

but i couldnt..the more he spoke..the more pissed off i got..and the more pissed i got the more i wanted to cry.

im not really normally an overly sensitive person...

but on stuff like that.. i am.

but..despite that..i do in a way understand what he was doing.

sometimes...even in really bad situations you have to find something to laugh about...a light at the end of a tunnel or a silver lining in a cloud so to speak.

but still...for those of us who have been raped..myself included...its really hard to laugh about such thing.

Answer 11

Apparently you've never been raped or sexually traumatized or you would be disgusted by this video. There is nothing funny about this clip. I'm glad that you haven't had the life experience it takes to realize this is repulsive.

Answer 12

This makes me not care so much that he's dead now.

Answer 13

I am truly sorry for your lack of intellagnce you talk to a rape victom for half and hour and see how funny it is infact talk to be you can contact me tru this vy the way I am a rape victom!!!

Answer 14

Love him. RIP

Answer 15

Everything has the potential to be funny. The only reason why things "shouldn't" be funny because it makes people uncomfortable for one reason or another.

But I'm one to really hate political correctness and censorship for the sake of oversensitivity. Though I would have more sense than to crack rape jokes in front of a rape victim, anyone being "offended" in the third person can suck an egg.

Answer 16

If you don't laugh, you'll cry.  Humor mitigates the pain.