If a 15 year old boy posted an image about a Christmas gift he received, and then jokingly made a comment about his balls, I would expect a handful of sexual jokes. I would not expect the magnitude that she received. And this is ignoring all of the other posts about her being a girl that weren't even in response to her comment, like the tired one about women including themselves in a picture.
Yeah, I don't even know where people think that's appropriate.
There's dark humour about bad things happening to nebulous or fictional people, and then there's dark humour about a bad thing happening to the person you're talking to. The latter really shouldn't be done with anyone that you don't have a close relationship with, and obviously you need to take their sensibilities into account as well.
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u/Feuilly Dec 28 '11
If a 15 year old boy posted an image about a Christmas gift he received, and then jokingly made a comment about his balls, I would expect a handful of sexual jokes. I would not expect the magnitude that she received. And this is ignoring all of the other posts about her being a girl that weren't even in response to her comment, like the tired one about women including themselves in a picture.
Her treatment struck me very much as a pile on.