[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Shaun

There's a real and vehement opposition to jokes about rape, I've noticed online. I find it a weird taboo, given there are many other equally heinous crimes.

I personally can take some relish in shock-humour but equally tire of comedians that rely upon it too much (see: Frankie Boyle).

And I do fear the death of freedom of speech. Well, it's already arguably died. People being imprisoned for distasteful tweets (I saw someone got community service and fined for an ill-timed joke about Lee Rigby, something like "if I saw someone wearing a [t-shirt brand he was wearing] i'd probably decapitate him too"... obviously in poor taste, but wholly undeserving of criminal action when so many worse death threats and intimidations go unnoticed on Twitter).

..yeah, I read about that case, it was a young female wasn't it..?..her flippant remark was in reference to a bad fashion sense thing and I think she made it without the full realisation of what happened because it was very shortly after the incident...it's kind of like the on/off button, if you don't like certain humour/find it offensive etc then don't watch it/read it..I also think that it's controversial because it hits on sensitive subjects so there will always be people who say have a disabled child for instance..(just a random example..) who may take it personally and feel that it's completely unacceptable because it hits too close to home..but then any subject can be be personal to someone, no matter what it is...