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Cyanide and Happiness
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Hello fellow Cyanide and Happiness fans!
Cyanide & Happiness (C&H) is a webcomic created by Rob DenBleyker, Kris Wilson, Dave McElfatrick and Matt Melvin. The comic has been running since 2005 and is published on the website explosm.net along with animated shorts in the same style. Matt Melvin left C&H in 2014, and several other people have contributed to the comic and to the animated shorts
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About this community and how I post the comics… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips. Of course these days you can read your favorite comics online instead of a newspaper, but I love the nostalgia of reading the daily comics. Anyway, one of my favorite current comics is Cyanide and Happiness and I will be posting the daily release from their website (https://explosm.net/) and a an extra or two randoms.
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The thing you seem to misunderstand is the difference between a joke, and the subject of a joke. The latter is of course not funny. But no children were harmed in the former.
'jokes' about rape certainly harms rape victims by making it easier for society in general to dismiss their claims of suffering.
Just like back in the 50s to 70s where wife beating jokes were so normal they were said on family TV. In fact the ENTIRE premise of the Honeymooners TV show was about the implied threat of spouse abuse. Because it was considered 'normal' and joking about it was 'normal'.
No rape joke is funny, and harms rape victims by making light of their suffering.
I think this is definitely true, but it doesn't just blanket apply to any joke that mentions these topics. Jokes where people "pretend" to say sexist or abusive ideas, but the joke is that "I'm actually a nice person, I obviously don't really mean this" (eg "no means yes, and yes means harder, amirite guys ;-)" or "if there's grass on the wicket, it's ready for cricket, lol"), can definitely be harmful even if not many that way. It normalises those attitudes, and can make abusers feel like they have more support from society than they really do. But in this comic the character comes across as a psychopath, proudly announcing something that is clearly wrong, and the other one calls the police. I don't feel like anyone is getting some message that actually it's totally normal to have sex with ten year olds...
"Ya know, the Nazi's had pieces of flair... They made the Jews wear them"
Never has been. That's why its called dark humor.
Funnier than the 10 year old girls locked up in my basement for sure. They truly have no sense of humor.
My girlfriend told me last week that I was a pedophile.
I told her that that was a big word for a ten-year-old.
I had sex with this gorgeous German girl the other day, but I couldn't get into it, she just kept screaming her age over and over.
Okay, that one's actually funny.
What is funny? Jokes are weird to think about, but it generally relies on setting up an expectation and then surprising us in some way. Here it's that when he uses the phrase 'a perfect ten', we assume he's referring to a highly attractive (adult) woman, then in the next panel we see he means ten as an age, which gives our brains a little stumble, a mismatch between the pattern we were expecting/predicting and what happend. For some reason, this little thing of setting up am expectation then subverting it tickles our brain in a way that makes it a joke. Having the reveal also be a topic like child rape that is so taboo and so unacceptable just increases this effect of how unexpected it is, this is generally what 'dark humour' is going for (works for some people, for others it just takes it too far, to where their emotions/associations about the bad thing far outweigh any humour, and put them into a state where they're not really able to find anything funny). Anyway, you don't have to like it, but it seems pointless to try to argue that certain subjects are not suitable for jokes. Some people like these jokes, you don't, and that by itself doesn't make either of you bad people.
It's funny to me that this is down-voted more than the highest up-voted comment.
Wordplay is funny.
Go do something with your angst like defeat Voldemort or join the dark side.
Don't bother, being 'edgy' is the thing now.
No rape joke is funny, none of them, not even the ones where it is the 'evil other' getting raped.
All it does it make actual victims' suffering less socially impactful.
But the internet doesn't care, because edgelads will edge.