We acknowledge that pedophilia and incest and suicide and a million other bad things are major plots of the book. But those are things that you just don’t make jokes about in general.
“I guess no one mentioned that unspoken rule to: Mel Brooks, Oscar Wilde, Marquis de Sade, Joe Masteroff, Jonathan Swift, Willam Shakespeare, Ambrose Bierce, Voltaire or a host of others.”
❝Writing reprehensible pro’s such as that does not condone them into being made as a joke, monsieur. All of whom you have listed, myself included, did not do so for that reason. Such scenarios exist and I personally used them to extract that very notion, not to make fun of it.❞
“But those are things that you just don’t make jokes about in general.”
We as a culture need to be able to read and write and talk about things that are uncomfortable/unsavory/illegal/bad/etc. Those are ways of dealing with them. There’s a fine line sometimes, but better to unpack them than pretend that they don’t exist or assume that ceasing discussion of them will prevent them from happening anymore.
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