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Jolene Handy's avatar

Wow, Tex Antoine, that’s a blast from the past, I remember that “incident” well. I didn’t watch GH, but knew of Luke and Laura as the “it” couple of their day, had no idea the plot line started either SA. Thanks for another illuminating read, Melanie!

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Melanie Anagnos's avatar

Tex Antoine - you were a NYer then! Looking back (with today's lens), feels like being in the back of a station wagon without a seat belt

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Jolene Handy's avatar

Yup!

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Katrina Gulliver's avatar

"Rape jokes" generally told by not-very-good male comedians, are a sign of desperation. He's dying on stage and he blurts out something that is not only offensive, it fails that ultimate test of comedy: being FUNNY. Because the punchline is just a woman getting assaulted. That's not actually a joke. I bet Joan Rivers could have told a good one though.

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Melanie Anagnos's avatar

Not sure about Joan Rivers, but Phyllis Diller told her own version

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Michellepollino's avatar

Luke and Laura were very confusing for a coming of age teenager, but Hollywood executives can't help themselves, hence why our culture is wastebin of power grabs. I always thought he was gay, also confusing.

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Melanie Anagnos's avatar

Very confusing messaging

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That Lisa Jones's avatar

I think Dave Barry means a man and a woman having an honest, private conversation, not a public one. Maybe the problem is not that women are “too angry” about rape, but that most men aren’t angry enough about it, if at all.

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