You’re right. Rape jokes normalize rape. Just like all the dead baby jokes normalize infanticide.

Clearly, she must have felt threatened at the comedy club. That’s why even in the original blog post her friend wrote that started this it was specifically stated that she stopped to complain to the manager and accepted tickets to come back. Because when you’re afraid of being raped, you stay and complain to the [...]

So as it turns out, the woman in question lied about the incident. http://www.buzzfeed.com/amyodell/comedy-club-owner-says-daniel-tosh-incident-has-be I think it’d be a productive discussion to have if someone wrote article on the subject of how false accusations like this demean the actual victims of rape and those who were genuinely threatened with rape. And how this furthers the [...]

It’s disappointing that no one is really bringing up the fallacy of “The rape joke normalizes rape.” The idea that entertainment glorifies and normalizes terrible behavior is one of the most disproved ideas of the past century. It actually does the opposite. The reason people find jokes about horrible things like rape or the holocaust [...]