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From: ruff@cisden.UUCP (Craig Ruff)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d,net.women
Subject: Re: traditional values
Message-ID: <453@cisden.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 22-Jan-86 18:59:03 EST
Article-I.D.: cisden.453
Posted: Wed Jan 22 18:59:03 1986
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References: <263@galbp.UUCP> <418@cisden.UUCP> <1124@oddjob.UUCP>
Reply-To: ruff@cisden.UUCP (Craig Ruff)
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In article <1124@oddjob.UUCP> apak@oddjob.UUCP (Adrian Kent) writes:
>In article <418@cisden.UUCP> john@cisden.UUCP (John Woolley) writes:
>>This girl goes into a bank, fills out a deposit form, goes up to the
	. . .
>>"Oh my God!" says the girl, "I've been raped!"
	. . .
>>				      Fr. John Woolley
>   To set this lovely piece of sexist propaganda in context, look at an
>earlier article:
>
>In article <358@cisden.UUCP> john@cisden.UUCP (John Woolley) writes:
	. . .
>I think your candor regarding your traditional values is now beyond dispute.
>Just two questions:
>(1) Do you understand that many of your readers are women, or like women, or 
>both, and for that reason regard those values with contempt?
>(2) What was the first article doing in net.jokes? 
>                                                   ak 

I should like to state that I was unable to follow your non sequitur
between the joke in the first part and the quoted articles in the second.
The joke, while not particularly funny, contains a subtle play on the
unstated context surrounding the situation the girl finds herself in.
Perhaps you took offense to the word "raped".  If so, you must realize
that the girl in the joke was not raped considering the unstated
context that surrounds the joke.  Certainly rape, which was not
the subject of the joke, is a serious subject that can not be dismissed
as a trivial matter or advocated in any way.  Prostitution, however,
which was the unstated subject of the joke, has been around for millennia
and has been the subject of countless jokes.

Of course, the title of the article did not give any indication of the subject
matter of the joke nor whether it might be possibly offensive to amoeboid
life forms for that matter.

					Craig

"Put this fish in your ear..."