0 thoughts on “Overheard

  1. oh, sorry. i was under the impression that you made up this tough guy dialogue, but i must have misunderstood.

    this scene reads all wrong to me (rape jokes, especially where the only joke is that you said "rape," are mostly the province of men under 40), but life is funny sometimes.

  2. I overheard the "egg rape" joke from a girl. She was about 20 and she was with two or three other girls the same age, all of whom gave the joke a big laugh. Whether that makes the remark okay is another question, but it wasn't thought up by a man.

    The Bendis thing you linked to is marked "Not really" to make clear I didn't really overhear it. But there's no marking on this one.

  3. yeah, i would believe it of a 20-year-old woman much more than i'd believe it of a 50-year-old woman. it's more age than gender correlated, but it's still gender correlated, in my mind.

    i don't find it offensive, i just find it lazy & dumb (especially paired with "eggs", because that is an actual anatomical part of a human being, which ruins the desired dissonance of the image). but i think i'm in the minority on that.

  4. I don't know; I chuckled. I think the eggness of it makes it more repulsive, and therefore funnier. Admittedly, I do like Johnny Ryan's stuff though.

    I think there is often some sort of gender breakdown with flamboyantly offensive jokes, but it's far from absolute. Johnny's rape jokes were what won him his wife, as far as my understanding goes.

  5. It struck me as interesting that a girl's mom would say the joke to her, and then that the girl would tell it to other girls. It made me laugh when I heard it, that's for sure.