@Background Pony #93F0  
TL;DR
 
Also, if 20 people laugh, and 1 person tries to get you banned from the radio/campus/show/club, it’s pretty clear whose fault it is.

@Conflutters  
I never liked that phrase, because it’s an absolute. And comedy is entirely dependent on the skill of the comedian. If Carlos Mencia told a rape joke, it’s likely not going to be funny because not only is a rape joke incredibly difficult to do well, but Carlos Mencia is a hack.
 
Ditto for Seth Macfarlane, Dane Cook, and Trey Parker.
 
The question one must as is “Why are rape jokes funny?” Is it entirely because it has a 100% chance of making someone feel insulted? That’s not comedy, that’s message board trolling. Rape jokes in and of themselves are not funny because rape itself isn’t funny. It’s simply an action. The circumstances, the exaggerations, and the mindset of the people involved is what makes a joke funny.
 
George Carlin’s ever famous routine about rape makes jokes about rapists, and rape culture (“she was asking for it” excuses, ect) by both blowing them up to ridiculous extremes and mocking them. A joke that ends with someone getting raped isn’t funny. Not just because it’s a tasteless subject but because you haven’t made a joke. You’ve made a statement.
 
As a comedian myself, when someone expresses offense at a joke I’ve made, I always ask myself “Are they too sensitive, or am I a bad comedian? People can laugh at taboo subjects all the time, so why was it a failure here?”
 
I view telling a joke that fails to make somebody laugh as a failure on my part. A comedian who’s only laughter is her own is a bad comedian.

@GlitterGlue  
Looking at the comments, Poe’s Law is definitely in effect.

Also I kinda think this is related to cupcakes or Pinkie’s natural sick sense of humor. Less likely an artist’s opinion.

@Conflutters  
Mhmm. Everytime something controversial is brought up, people take offense. I say if cute technicolor lesbian ponies know how to take a joke, then why can’t we? (there isn’t even any blood or gore)

“Stooping to their level” talk is the same thing a defeatist would say.
 
Rape jokes are funny, feminists continue not to be.

and then people here say tumblr is toxic, lmfao ok

@Tenafly Viper  
do you even understand the concept of parody?

This kind of thing is entirely unnecessary, and is only stooping to their level.

@TheLoneLampman  
Well, it’s good to see you’re alive.

Though I fear Poe’s Law will get a lot of people who take this at face value and read no irony or moral into it, the point is much-needed: if you’ve got some opinionated stance you want to soapbox on, knock yourself out, but using cartoon characters as mouthpieces is so fucking backwards and conceited it’s ridiculous. Your rant about rape jokes or online censorship should be made by you, people need to quit acting like it’s more valid because “Fluttershy” is saying it.

@SilverMyr  
Yes, they call them “mouthpieces”.  
A terrible habit.

@BigMax  

 
Anyone can make a character say anything that they want. Doesn’t change anything because they’re just a blank character and not a real person.

Whoa, I hope this is some kind of response for all the SJWs and Tumblr feminism.
 
What can you tell us, Reiduran?

Don’t know why everyone jumped to assuming murder.  
Keep in mind the Cake twins can’t speak yet…

Geez, murder isn’t the only option you people, blackmail is far safer.  
Also, stop saying “she”. Rape is an equal opportunity profession.

@HamburgerTime  
I’ve been around, just not extremely vocal.

Wait, this means Reiduran is still alive somewhere on the internet? Or is this old piece? I miss him dearly.  

Dont break the golden rule “Never turn a rape into a homicide”
 

 
 
NSA,pls

Implied murder? Maybe he’s suggesting that your tie her up in your basement.

…this hiatus is going to be a living hell.