Forum Overview :: Mac Hall Complaints Department :: Offensive jokes work because the subject ISN'T normalized

[quote name="Jessica Alba"]The term "normalize" means transforming something into acceptable behavior. To think that jokes do this to rape or any violent crime (some of which worse than rape!) is completely ludicrous. Remember how all those abuse lawsuits against the Catholic church were dropped when Jay Leno started making priest jokes? No? To put it in terms Zseni can relate to... <i>Twilight</i> normalizes domestic abuse. <i>To Be or Not to Be</i> does not normalize fascism. Why not use all this impotent energy raging against Twilight, a much larger cultural trend doing far more damage to wymyn than all the rape jokes in the world? Of course rape can be funny [youtube id="3zvTRQr7ns8"][/quote]