ugh

[gremcint]

I am not paid enough to laugh at a customer’s rape joke.

Even if he tells it to me in front of his wife and daughters.

Even if he complains I’m not laughing at his “best jokes”

[Pixilated]

*with straight face and coldly polite voice* "No? Here's your change, sir. You have a good day. Next, please!"

No reason you should be expected to laugh at something like that, even if he's got the incredibly poor taste to tell it in front of his wife and daughters. You obviously can't chastise him for it, but perhaps you can at least make him uncomfortable.

[barainga]

I know how you feel, had a co worker keep telling me jokes about dead babies. I had to tell him 4 times he needed to stop.

[MoonCat]

My POV is: There are no rape jokes. Because there are some subjects you can't joke about.

He sounds like an idiot.

[CrappyToHelp]

What a prick. There are things that shouldn't be joked about in public (what people do away from other people, IDGAF about). Rape is one of them.

For all that fucker knew, you could have been a rape victim. People don't seem to understand that WORDS HAVE A MEANING. Ugh! It really makes me mad. If you're going to do that, at least joke about it away from anyone else.

It reminds me of a time a CW overheard a customer making a dead baby joke. She ended up leaving the floor in tears because her son had suffered cot death.

Assclowns.

[Argabarga]

I wonder why certain people don't get why we aren't laughing at them?

[pinky]

how horrible. what a creeper

[Seshat]

No, you aren't.

I wonder if he knows how likely it is that of his three-or-more women there (wife, two or more daughters) will be raped in their lifetime?

And will he think it funny if they fall foul of those statistics?


* I am not wishing it on them. Just in case anyone actually needed me to say that. Just .. if they were the mythical 'statistical average' ... well. Mr Rape Jokes Are Funny probably doesn't know how high - on average - their chances are. Or his, for that matter.

[gerund]

I am not paid enough to laugh at a customer’s rape joke.

I heard a manager make a rape comment in front of all the office staff, including one 18 year old girl and two married ladies. It was in regards to a picture of a line of native women, dressed in native costume. He said

"(Country) is the only place in the world where you don't want to rape the women because they are so ugly."



Owner of the business would not do anything about it, even when I told him one of the women was thinking of legal action because of a "hostile work environment." I later told the inactive owner I would not work, talk, socialise, report to or have any contact with that manager.

The day after that he tried to get me to work with the manager again and I refused. He didn't take any action over that, so a few weeks later I left.

Then he hated me. Tried to torpedo my business. That failed to work. I'm now a long way from him and his manager and their attitude.

I think the manager tried to say it was a sort of joke, or a throw away comment not meant to be taken seriously. I tell a lot of jokes. I can tell one joke in more than one language. I have *never* joked about rape. Never. I never will.

[Seshat]

I have used my rape joke. Once. I told Toth and Bast - and then asked them if they could think of a way to keep the funny and remove the rape reference.

We still occasionally work on it. It's one of our family puzzles.

And when we solve that, we'll try peace in the middle east.


Edit to add: WHITED, TRIGGER WARNING, DO NOT READ unless you're so damn curious you have to know: Nine out of ten people enjoy gang rape.

[Geek King]

I told Toth and Bast - and then asked them if they could think of a way to keep the funny and remove the rape reference.

Five out of Ten people actually like taxes. The other five have to actually pay taxes.

Now get on that Mid-East thing.

[roxtar]

I'm of the opinion that anything can be joked about... but you need to know your audience. The bomb muhammad pic can be down right hilarious or profoundly offensive depending on the audience.

[manybellsdown]

I think the general consensus on rape jokes is that they can never be at the expense of the victim(s).

[Captain Trips]

Could be that the only "good" rape joke was in Blazing Saddles:

Hedley Lamarr: Qualifications?
Applicant: Rape, murder, arson, and rape.
Hedley Lamarr: You said rape twice.
Applicant: I like rape

.

But then again, you have to take it in context.

[Monterey Jack]

One of the MANY reasons I detest Family Guy is the high volume of extremely "shock"-oriented jokes revolving around rape, AIDS, racism and the like. Unless you're a rebellious/thoughtless twelve-year-old (hey, I admit to laughing at the occasional "dead baby" joke...28 years ago), I fail to see the humor in these kid of "jokes".