A hideous rape joke that appeared in my Facebook feed on 16 May 2012. The comment conversation went on longer than is shown here, but though multiple friends of the original poster expressed disgust at the post, he remained baffled as to why people had found it offensive - or rather, why they’d bothered to express their disgust through commenting as opposed to just looking away. Additionally, the female commenter who thought it was funny responded to my criticism by saying that her life was “too complicated” for her to think about the deep and meaningful subtext of jokes like this, and that as the OP wasn’t (in her estimation) a fuckwit, his post couldn’t possibly be offensive, and that only people who weren’t really his friends would have a problem with it. *facepalm*
