cross-posted from: https://feddit.online/c/theonion@midwest.social/p/1919135/carney-to-rename-rest-of-great-lakes-as-lake-legal-adult-so-trump-will-never-want-to-to
OTTAWA – After Donald Trump signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America,” Prime Minister Mark Carney announced he would preemptively rename the rest of the Great Lakes as “Lake Legal Adult” in order for the president to immediately lose interest in touching them.
Then just call him a pedophile and don’t minimise the effects of the crime by making it lighthearted enough for Joe Schmoe to joke about at a dinner table thinking they’re funny.
Like tell me how repeatedly saying “grab 'er by the pussy” worked out as a joke. It did jack. People seem to be thinking this is some big protest movement when all it is is keyboard warrior stuff that doesn’t get anything done, and I honestly I hate saying that because I ideologically agree with anybody who says that.
At a point it just feels like there’s a reversal of the initial intent where it unintentionally starts normalising jokes about sexual assault.
There were loads of people who did not hear him say ‘grab em by the pussy’. Meaning we should have been saying it even more often. We should absolutely be bringing up the files constantly.
Humor helps inform people of issues they would normally avoid on the nightly news or in conversations with others. Proof? George Carlin, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, just to name a few. Humor is a powerful tool that can make change.
We should 100% normalize making fun of sexual predators.
We should 100% normalize using judicial process on predators.
Both can be true. Both should be true