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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannager" data-source="post: 6182791" data-attributes="member: 73683">Rape is terrible. Absolutely horrific. Life-shatteringly, soul-crushingly debilitating to go through, and awful to even be adjacent to.But that isn't unique to rape. Rape isn't the only horrible thing humanity has to offer itself. Murder, dismemberment, bullying, bigotry, grievous bodily injury - all of these things are but a small sampling of things that traumatize people every day.Are these things off limits, in humor? Should they be off limits? Should comedians tread lightly for fear of offending someone with an edgy joke? Should we just shrug and say, "Oh, he deserved to be harassed for being so edgy," when their families are threatened because of a joke they made?The answer to all of those questions should be an emphatic, "No." Humor is one of the ways that we cope with the awful. If we start to embrace the idea that comedians need to avoid potentially offensive topics, where do we draw the line? Rape? Murder? Injury? Bullying? Sexism? Pets being run over? Car accidents? Deaths in the family? Breakups?By the way, "bonus points" for using their status as popular comedians as a way of marginalizing anything they may have gone through.   You're comparing a guy who used his children's charity as a tool to allow him to sexually molest young boys to a couple of guys who run a children's charity because they want to see hospitalized children enjoying life a little better. Why would you do this? The point was to remind you that these guys are really warm-hearted people, on a personal level, and that their high crime was being perhaps too insensitive to the topic of rape. Now you're conflating them with child molestation? What the hell?</blockquote>

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