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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
            • "beacuase penis" : Dong Patrol
    • 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
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      huh? what do you mean give credence to? accepting that they were victims of rape? I don't think any of them are saying rape doesn't exist or anything like that. they are saying its a webcomic that nobody forces you to read, and if its offensive to you, thats fine, dont read it, tell it from the rooftops of how you find the comic in poor taste or offensive garbage, but thats where it should end.
      
      this is all becoming manufactured internet drama, blah blah blah. its becoming repulsive and making me not care about their complaints. maybe other people are different, and this just is such an important thing. as i said below, maybe my internet drama receptors are broken.

      Feb 02, 2011 2:56pm PST
      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