Humor is subjective. " is not funny" is a completely opinionated statement that is often used as a discussion point, but holds no true substance of a fact.

(what happened to all the underscores I used before that, it's just a small empty space???)

but yeah, I understand exactly what they're trying to say, but wording is very important

I personally find that rape jokes aren't funny, so saying "rape jokes aren't funny" is just going to sound like an opinion

I'm having trouble finding the right terminology for it, though. The closest thing I've come to is "rape is no laughing matter"

you can make literally anything funny, I've laughed at the stupidest, most incoherent shit before. But there are some things you just shouldn't joke about for reasons y'all probably already know.

I keep "have fun thoughtfully, have fun responsibly" in mind whenever I tell jokes, because I care about people and don't want to hurt them

however, there are plenty of people out there who Just Don't Care and that's pretty fucking dangerous

In a world where the existence of People Who Take Things Too Far is still very prominent, making jokes that harm people, defending the jokes and then using the jokes to intentionally harm people...

you don't want to expose these people to this kind of shit

You're giving people the tools to cause harm by endorsing harmful content, even if your intentions were pure

if you're telling rape jokes and believe rape is bad, Stop Telling Rape Jokes

not that people will go out and rape everything in sight after you tell the joke, but they'll defend the usage of these jokes, and even harass people for it and that's pretty fucking awful

If you depend on these jokes to be funny, Find Something Else You're Good At That Doesn't Cause Harm To People

and by harm, I don't really mean physically, but I feel like there's some dipshit out there who really takes things that far

The thing that confounds me the most is casual usage of the word rape in a non-joke setting

like... why...........

stop using it as a fucking buzz-word, I know what you're trying to say with that word but try something that feeds into this whole shitfest...

that doesn't*

BOTTOM LINE "rape jokes aren't funny" is easily debatable because there's some doofus out there that has laughed at it, maybe there should be a better way of describing that rape jokes are bad