The Midnight Gumbo Special

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cracked:

Let me preface this by saying that I’m sorry to all who are offended by the mention of rape. We appreciate everyone’s readership and we respect our audience and humanity in general and, no, we don’t think rape is funny. Duh. Like, seriously, duh. But everyone should also know that nothing will ever come from saying to us “please stop making jokes about X, because they offend me personally.” If things like that affected our content or perspective, then eventually we couldn’t mention anything and we might as well just post photocopies of pages from “101 Dinosaur Jokes”, because something will always offend someone. Even paleontologists, eventually.

Let me continue this by saying that mentioning rape in a joke does not equal a rape joke. Mentioning race, religion, or any other touchy subject doesn’t necessarily mean that the joke is about or making fun of said touchy subject. In this case, the joke isn’t “rape is funny lulz”. The joke is about the character’s obliviousness to how words work, and the character’s obliviousness to how he is perceived by others. Rape is not the joke here. Tobias Fünke is the joke.

To those who are still offended that we posted an Arrested Development reference with the word “rapist” in it, we’re sorry. We don’t think rape is funny, but we still think Tobias Fünke is hilarious. To those who are still offended by how we dealt with this situation… I guess, you know, deal with it? You can keep sending us messages that we’re jerks and that we should never post things like this again and that we should shut the fuck up, but clearly that won’t do anything but make you angrier. To those of you who are yucking it up right now because you aren’t offended, please don’t go to these people’s blogs and harass them. They are people and they are just very passionate and vocal and they don’t deserve to be abused or trolled just because they got offended. To those of you who didn’t read this, nothing.

Let me close this by saying that referring to Arrested Development as a “stupid show” really offends me, so please stop saying it.

  1. shedoesfaults reblogged this from cracked
  2. shedoesfaults said: YES.
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  4. busty-bijou said: I thought the joke was funny as hell. I love arrested development and Tobias was a tool. A very funny, Oedipus-complex having, tool. People need to stop being so sensitive over ever little word! I still love you Cracked! you are hilarious.
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  8. hopelessdelight reblogged this from vodka-rocks and added:
    Just gonna leave this here, some asshole who doesn’t try to see my side.
  9. ignorance-is-the-enemy reblogged this from thiscuntsays and added:
    One of the weakest non-apologies I’ve ever heard. - S
  10. xdustineflx reblogged this from cracked and added:
    Yes. Please, please...badmouthing Arrested Development.
  11. nottodie said: As a rape victim, I would like to thank you for this response. I’m not stupid and I am able to laugh at jokes - even jokes that contain the word “rape.” Such jokes don’t offend me. What offends me is ignorant people deciding what should offend me.
  12. new-distractions reblogged this from cracked and added:
    “apology” pissed...People aren’t getting upset...quoted...
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  14. pristiqpanda said: Well said, Cracked. You pretty much hit the nail on the head in every way.
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  16. lalapaloser reblogged this from cracked and added:
    tumblr’s insane social justice community....Fünke? Really guys?
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    cracked, even if other...can’t understand what
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  20. nomotiondancing said: I’m a rape victim and a lover of Arrested Development. It has never even occurred to me that Tobias being an Analrapist is offensive. Obviously these people have never seen this brilliant show.
  21. invinciblend said: I can see what you are trying to say but this isn’t the right attitude. No, you CAN still make PLENTY of jokes if you don’t make them about rape. That’s a weak excuse. If people were hurt by it (not just offended) then maybe YOU need to reconsider.
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  23. mesoblasian reblogged this from comedown and added:
    All those people should just fuck off, seriously. Learn how to take a fucking joke. And Cracked making a Arrested...