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Putting "reverse" in front of any number of offenses downplays the act when committed against any particular group of individuals.  Indeed, if anything, it is a stereotype unto itself by implying that stereotyping against one group is bad while stereotyping another group is acceptable, or in some way less bad.

Yes, fiction isn't reality.  Yet, at the same time, such "humor" can feed the mindset that such attitudes are justifiable, less of a bad thing, or even irrelevant compared to similar acts committed by the "opposite" or other groups within a characteristic.

You can't end such treatment of others by having society view it as funny.  Any more than you can have society view males, adults OR children, who have been raped as being humorous.  Or males who have been victims of any form of abuse as being humorous. 

The more reality you insert into the humor, such as using real individuals, even if they are portraying fictional characters, the more one can associate the humor to real individuals who suffer the real events.  And the solution isn't to demonize the act only when it occurs against one group and consider it justifiable or less of a bad act if committed against another, but to make the act itself wrong and condemn ANYONE who commits it.

Yes, fiction is fiction and reality is reality and the two shall never meet.  Rapelay is one such example.  Totally fictional.  No actual models to associate with the real world.  Yet, would the above video continue to be humorous if the gender roles were to be reversed?  Still fictional, but still funny?  What if you created two videos of the same scenes with cartoon characters?  Would either, both, or neither still be humorous?

Heck, I've been told I don't have a sense of humor because I don't think making a mockery of child molestation, even in fictional settings, is funny.  Yet, for many years now, there have been direct or indirect efforts to have a little yuk-yuk at the idea of adult-child relationships using actual models or actual real individuals making "humorous" comments along such lines.

Again, I agree fiction is fiction and reality is reality, but there comes a point where "if you don't like it, don't participate in it" starts to enter the muddy arena of "turn a blind eye" to something.

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