Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site mmm.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mmm!mrgofor From: mrgofor@mmm.UUCP (Michael Ross) Newsgroups: net.jokes.d,net.women Subject: Re: traditional values Message-ID: <443@mmm.UUCP> Date: Mon, 3-Feb-86 12:29:51 EST Article-I.D.: mmm.443 Posted: Mon Feb 3 12:29:51 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 6-Feb-86 04:39:33 EST References: <263@galbp.UUCP> <418@cisden.UUCP> <1124@oddjob.UUCP> <451@cisden.UUCP> <4228CJC@PSUVM> <353@ism780c.UUCP> Reply-To: mrgofor@mmm.UUCP (Michael Ross) Organization: 3M Company, St. Paul, Minn. Lines: 19 Xref: watmath net.jokes.d:1398 net.women:8713 In article <353@ism780c.UUCP> tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith) writes: >In article <4228CJC@PSUVM> CJC@PSUVM.BITNET writes: >> >>Your "joke" insinuated that "rape" just means that the victim wasn't >>paid enough. > >Wrong. It insinuated that not getting paid enough was rape, not that >rape was just not getting paid enough. A is B does not imply that all >B is A. > Wright, but still rong. The joke insinuated that the prostitute *thought* not getting paid enough was rape. The joke hinges on the very fact that not getting paid enough is NOT a definition of rape, and that's why all of us folks who know that thought the joke was funny. >Tim Smith sdcrdcf!ism780c!tim || ima!ism780!tim || ihnp4!cithep!tim --MKR