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From: tim@mtxinu.UUCP (Tim Wood)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: Re: the "been raped" joke.
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Date: Fri, 31-Jan-86 15:31:42 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 31 15:31:42 1986
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Re: the "I've been raped" joke

Let's dissect this joke here, as there seem to be people in 
news-land who either don't understand it or see the humor in it.
I do this because this will relate in an interesting way to the sender.

The woman claims to have been raped when she has found that her newly-
aquired $50 bill is counterfeit.  This implies that the bill was payment
for sexual favors, i.e., the woman is a prostitute.  It also implies
that she performed the "service" willingly because she believed she
was being compensated, but when she finds that she wasn't, she is
retroactively withdrawing her consent for the completed act, because
she wouldn't have performed willingly had she realized she wouldn't be
compensated.

Now the joke is thoroughly de-humored.  Why the analysis?  To determine
at whose expense the joke is made, and why.  The joke satirizes woman's 
right to withdraw consent for sexual relations.  The woman looks like
a fool because she gave away her body on a condition that was not met.
I will speculate that chances are that someone who has innate concern
for this society and its long-held bias against the word of women 
claiming rape will not find this joke funny, nor would it occur to
him/her to tell it.

Who told it on the net?  Fr. John Wolley, the literate, passionate
source of all those arguments against abortion in net.abortion.  
Isn't it interesting that one who argues so consistently and at such
great length for a position which denies women fundamental control
over one of the central processes of their beings, reproduction,
should be the source of a parody of another major women's right,
control over her sexual activity?  Kidding or serious, women are
losers in Fr. John Wolley's Book.

-Tim Wood
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These opinions are at least my own.