Conversations With Feminists: Explaining Why Rape Jokes Can Be Funny

Tomo Albanese
15 min readJan 4, 2017

What follows is my responses to specific questions and statements from an online discussion with friends of mine. It started with them sharing the Tweet below, and me responding to the question it contained. Perhaps I should have taken the question as rhetorical, but that has never been my way. I have not included the names of anyone, nor the bulk of the responses because I err on the side of privacy.

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Tomo Albanese

Copy Director, Writer, and Philosopher in the school of life, Tomo believes that honesty, transparency, and logic should be always balanced with compassion.