Rape Jokes Are Not Funny

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I caused a bit of a twitterstorm this morning, moaning about mysogeny and rape jokes during two Edinburgh Fringe Festival gigs we attended last night. This is now me, trying to work it out, in the way that writers often do try to work out a problem, by writing about it.
It actually started last night, during the aforementioned gigs,

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I've never been one to re-blog other people's posts but this one is worthy. Not only should JF Derry be commended for heckling (I've never had the guts) but to make his case so fully like this has changed my opinion on something I'd never really given much thought to (to my shame). What's even more worrying is Daniel Sloss' attempt at deflecting the issue with his opinion while refusing to even read the article.

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