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6 September 2013updated 27 Sep 2015 3:55am

How are rape jokes different from murder jokes? Let me count the ways

If murder was so common that in any medium-sized mixed group I could be pretty sure someone there had been directly affected by murder, you are damn right I wouldn’t make any jokes about murder, writes Sophia McDougall.

By Sophia McDougall

I once told a joke that hurt someone who’d lost a loved one to murder.

It was awful.

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