Lord Ganus23 Feb 2003

I'll forgive your rage, this time. "Irony" was a lazy, and for this reason poor choice of word. Here is what I meant: if your aim is to express tragedy and societal scorn you should not pander to the audience, since it is the audience that makes up 'society' and is thus the entity which scorns the male prostitute. Therefore, it may very well be in your best interests to make the reader feel not sorry for this person but rather bad about themself. To do this, one could find some ironic or comical slant on the whole situation, something to arouse laughter that cannot be denied. When the reader notices that he or she has laughed at something very tragic, he or she will recognize not only the fault in the self, but also the fact that he or she is very much part of the problem. This will both make the reader feel bad about themself but also make the reader understand the sort of thing this person is going through. Maybe something to do with AIDS?? Did you or did you not read "HOW TO BE FUNNY"? Don't you understand how unfunny humor is?