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  Wow, how fucking dumb. : Vincent Grayson
  • Someone will always misinterpret comedy. I liked the script because I have left npc behind because I ... : TOnez
• must be a shacker : Dravenport
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  Sounds like somebody needs to get laid. : AgentPothead
  • Would be a good surprise : zakazi
  • By dickwolves. : TreMetal
  • You mean raped? Way to perpetuate rape culture, AgentPothead. : skinlab133
  • it sounds like they were laid, just against their will. :( : roushimsx
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  good lord this shakespeare person has a 52 part 'rape is hilarious' blog section. : deathofrats
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    this person is doing a service for comedy. claiming that rape jokes should be off the table is what gives : dirge23
    • What I love is that you know she's used the term "murder", "kill", "destroy", etc. in her every day life ... : ColoradoCNC
• Anyone find anything else objectionable on the Penny Arcade store? I have full access, I can go in and re : reZaun
• "Penny Arcade took it to another level." holy shit all parties involved need to stfu : cptstern
• Dickwolfgate 2011 : Nali4Freedom
• penises are scary : headbone
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  How are people so offended by a joke about a fictional rape by completely fictional creatures? : giant boy detective
  • obviously you've never been raped by a wild beast that has dicks for limbs. YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND. : roushimsx
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    Penises. : Fred Garvin
    • Precisely. : LilCrypto
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    are you some sort of rape culture apologist?! : hirez
    • It's really not that bad. : giant boy detective
    • Whenever I hear "rape culture", I picture a guy raping a girl while wearing a tuxedo : riptyde
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    every rape victim who reads that comic relives that rape : handofthrawn
    • To be blunt, that's their fucking problem. I'll never get why people like that think the world should cha... : dumb.
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      Every rape victim who reads your post relives that rape. Twice. : giant boy detective
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        Like, DP, or back to back? : lolpatrol
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          You rang? : Dong Patrol
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            DP, why you rape? : ass-street
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    • we must ban the word 'rape' as soon as possible. : DonkeyPopsicle
    • and that's what makes the comic funny! : NexusOne
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      no, people that can't get past being raped may relive their rape every time they hear the word, but that ... : Dravenport
      • Seriously, if people are this sensitive to exposure of the word, they should stop going to sites that hav... : aethyr
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      The two rape victims I've shown it to thought it was funny and couldn't understand the controversy. I gue... : ColoradoCNC
      • it's really more of a slavery joke than a rape joke anyway : dirge23
      • I've only read one actual criticism of the original comic strip, by a guest blogger on a relatively low-p... : woddemandred
    • And every robbery victim relives the event when they hear the word, "robbery?" And every shooting victim... : Ebu
    • would you say it's like a PoM rape spell? or more like AOE rape ?!?! : Downforce
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    the initial being offended were kind of missing the point of the comic entirely but I think people are ju... : mikecyb
    • frankly, i can appreciate the way PA folk responding, simply because they are responding genuinely. coul... : stygian_whisper
• These people should spend some time on 4chan. : shortbuscaptain
• Failpalm. Good to see the pc folks out for scalps. : trove
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  lol http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06-Y_zkpqb8 : deathofrats
  • winner : rtrson
• "This is why I avoid comedy. I don't go to comedy movies, I rarely watch comedians, I avoid sitcoms like ... : cptstern
• people need thicker skin. : hirez
• The last thread totally wasn't enough. : woddemandred
• I guess these people never watched Arrested Development. : gakera
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  Wow, Penny Arcade are jackasses. : sgtsanity
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    Yes heaven forbid someone make a joke. : JohnnyRey
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      Jokes are ok, managing to bungle your "defense" of that joke to the extent that people who ostensibly sup... : woddemandred
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        PA isn't responsible for retards : JohnnyRey
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          That's true, they just managed to take a blog post written by a humorless person that approximately .001%... : woddemandred
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            They were afraid that PAX will be affected. : TOnez
            • i.e., oh shit there goes the money : Schnapple
      • They have no control of their fans. That is like saying political parties/religion has control over it's ... : TOnez
  • He hasn't exactly handled it in a manner that could have very easily made the whole thing a non issue, bu... : fishbone
  • Your mom are jackasses. : deject
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  Look who's talking. : razlebol
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    quit being a rapist. : roushimsx
    • quit being a rapist dickwolf : Arcath
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  So I glanced at that and...who the fuck are these nobodies who are complaining?! I mean, NOBODIES. Never ... : AxeMan808
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    Apparently some are rape survivors that lied about being rape survivors in an attempt to troll for the lo... : roushimsx
    • "some are rape survivors that lied about being rape survivors in an attempt to troll for the lolz" Pleas... : woddemandred
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    Eh, Shakesville (though the particular blogger was a guest blogger or something) and Amanda Marcotte are ... : woddemandred
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      Blogs no one reads you mean? : avatar_58
      • Sure. : woddemandred
• They need to read Rape Stove: The Stove That Rapes People, a screenplay by P. Oswalt. : eskimo spy
• they just set a curfew for men. theres no reason for men to go outside after dark, unless of course its f... : rtrson
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  "rape survivor" lol jesus fucking christ. : Hoax
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    I'm starting to wonder if it troubles anyone that a certain group says "it's just a joke, of course we ca : woddemandred
    • huh? what do you mean give credence to? accepting that they were victims of rape? I don't think any of th... : stygian_whisper
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  I think this whole thing is due to a bunch of self-important asshole bloggers who think we should give a ... : deject
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    to be fair they have a gaming convention : sgtsanity
    • Har har, I see what you did there. : deject
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  I get why people would get offended by the comic ("rape culture" being an actual problem), but what I don... : mittense
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    are you talking about the initial comic? that wasn't even about rape, the point was, essentially, that v... : mikecyb
    • Yup. : Johnny Law
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  What annoyed me was Gabe's response at the time (on Twitter) that "the idea that our cartoon could cause ... : rock elf
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    yep, he was pretty out of line there. : roushimsx
    • I disagree. His response wasn't so much to the idea that a comic could trigger a reaction, it was to : Ebu
  • Not to mention that 10 seconds of Googling would have told him that it's a real thing. : rock elf
  • indeed. he should know that anything digital can cause significant trauma. they know better. : Downforce
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    Is it literally because he used the word rape? Do you think there would be nearly as much outrage if he ... : aethyr
    • also, you just know there is going to be a ton of dickwolf related paraphernalia at PAX. : aethyr
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    the idea that they should edit themselves because some things that they may say may cause emotional distr... : eskimo spy
    • yeah, this. literally any kind of art or media could cause trauma in certain fragile people. but you can'... : dirge23
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    up next, remove the word rape from the dictionary so people don't have breakdowns reading it! : crazywigga
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      Law & Order SVU banned forever, retroactively! : Clay
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        my wife gets annoyed at me because i refer to SVU as "rape squad" : dirge23
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          well I have to agree with your wife. some of the episodes are about child abuse. : mikecyb
          • she only gets annoyed at me because i refer to it as that all the goddamn time : dirge23
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  I think most of us can agree that they handled the criticism pretty terribly. Almost like teenagers who h... : Schnapple
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    i still dont see why people care so much about this. i guess im missing something, or maybe my internet d... : stygian_whisper
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      They made a joke involving rape, which is a concept for most of us but a real horrible issue and trauma f : Schnapple
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        Also, the thing is that in modern polite society there are things which you cannot do or you just don't d... : Schnapple
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          the thing about comedy is that it all has to be on the table. for some people the way you deal with the h... : dirge23
          • Somewhere I heard someone say something to the effect of: the funniest humor on earth tends to be offensi... : Schnapple
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          it would surprise me if the number of men raped in prisons is close to the number of women raped in free ... : retarded talking dinosaur
          • * wouldnt : retarded talking dinosaur
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            No, but you're comparing people in prison to people not in prison. Actually that's a good example bec... : Schnapple
            • The standard guy line is 'You cannot rape the willing.' : LoioshDwaggie
            • Last I heard, over here, statistics show 1.6% of girls are raped, but 2.1% of boys are. It's just far les... : AlexW1203
      • Good post. I think they would have been much better off if they just ignored everything and moved on. : Goncyn
      • I disagree with your men/women dichotomy. I'm sure plenty of men who have been raped have PTSD-like symp... : Agrona
  • Standard internet blunder: respond to your "opponent" by pissing all over a much larger group. (Then sti... : Johnny Law
  • I do not at all agree with that. : eskimo spy
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  Uh, wtf is the backstory to this and how did I miss out? : dedgecko
  • LOL -- i read the first three links, this can only get better! : dedgecko
• You just mentally raped me by posting that link. : AscorSix
• wow, they sure are raping this blood out of this stone : askedrelic
• This might make me a bad person, but I love Gabe's twitter posts there. : slax0r
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  Can we at least all agree that something is wrong when victims of rape are afraid to report it, are shame... : Duffman8369
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    If someone fucks you illegally either in a literally or in a figuratively, you should be able to report i... : RaptorII
    • I should have looked over that first bit before I posted and left work. Oops. "If someone fucks you ille... : RaptorII
• What a mass clusterfuck. I believe that PA can use whatever subject they want for jokes. But at this po... : SigmaDraconis
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  Oh hey women don't get jokes and get all mouthy. Hold the presses. : Rauol Duke
  • I kno rite? : Volatus32x
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  I don't understand why he has to be so combative over it. I read the comic on the first day before the... : das_runt
  • I don't even think he should have to (or even feel the need to) apologize. He could have just said "uhh,... : mikecyb
• this would have blown over months ago if PA creators hadn't kept egging people on. i don't agree with th... : smax
• What the flying fuck : mayooms
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  you want to hear something really fucked up? I had an ethics class in college where we were asked to rank... : retarded talking dinosaur
  • that's fucked up. : smax
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    I'd put Janet Jackson nipple as worse than either of them. : walker270
    • It raped AND murdered my childhood. : Fenring42
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    historically the phrase "a fate worse than death" was always assumed to mean rape. They would kill the wh... : Amadan
    • ha! according to The Internet it was popularized by Boroughs as a euphemism not just for rape, but ape ra... : Amadan
  • I've tried to argue this point occasionally, but it is rarely argued rationally. "Rape is obviously t... : Ebu
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  i hope none of those people watched the tosh.0 rape trap skit, the penny arcade comic is nothing in compa... : qwpeoriu
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    Some people just don't know when to give up or get over it. The majority of gamers are more than comforta : LoioshDwaggie
    • This is a straw-man, but I cannot get over her writing: And let us all stop to appreciate, for just a mom : LoioshDwaggie