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hunnymonster said:No - but if you come into the part of the site that is specifically marked out as NSFW (Not safe for work) and is more "anything goes" than the rest of the site, don't be surprised if there are things in there that offend.
To me the test of offence and misogyny (or indeed misandry) is to turn it around... if the roles were reversed would we still be making puns & wisecracks about it? Absolutely. Right now we don't know if it was domestic violence or whether he knew - only those present know the truth (and one of them can't tell her story).
Hoist by my own petard - fair point, Jason. I'm glad that, in your position as a moderator, you apply the test of role reversal. I'm not sure why I'm sensitive to it - my father certainly is vehement in his contempt for those who perpetrate domestic violence, and, from discovering a book written by an elderly relative (the wonders of genealogy!), I discover that a maternal ancestor was married to an abusive drunkard...until the day when she decided that societal norms no longer replied and decked him, at which point he stopped. I can certainly appreciate a bad-taste joke along the lines of Frankie Boyle in his Mock the Week years; my personal "line in the sand" is defied by the fact that I consider his recent stand-up material unfunny and offensive in an attention-seeking way.