Reader Lee R. just notified us of this: you can buy funny luggage stickers online. You put them over your suitcase, and it looks like part of the suitcase has been ripped away to reveal bags of cocaine or heroin, stacks of money, vibrators or:
It’s a tearful female flight attendant bound and gagged in your luggage. Somebody found this and the other stickers funny. Lee came across it as an allegedly amusing “kicked” story for the news (regarding how these stickers might irk customs officials) and informs me, “There were women who looked at it too, who couldn’t see anything wrong beyond the “OMG Vibrators! HA!”
The humor is supposed to come from the fact that you’re displaying such boldly criminal activity to Customs and airport personnel. I get that. But humor, processed by brains capable of critical thinking, is found in the structure of a story, not its content, so the real test of a joke is: can you swap out the content with an equivalent and find it just as funny?
So let’s test this one: how about an image of a small tearful child, bound and gagged in your suitcase? Are you still laughing?
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Or make it a tourist with an “oops, busted” look – someone who’d hidden in the suitcase so as to travel free.
SunlessNick(Quote) (Reply)
Or a curled-up Giger Alien.
Charles RB(Quote) (Reply)
Yes, yes and yes – all three would be things I wouldn’t mind and might even find funny because you might end up sharing a laugh with the airport personnel (especially if you really have your submissive or an Alien in there
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The Other Patrick(Quote) (Reply)
If the image was like of Batista or the Undertaker, or an image of Freddy with his finger over his lips in a ‘shhhhhh!’ gesture.
GardenGoblin(Quote) (Reply)
Comes down to the consent issue. As long as everyone involved is fully consenting, it’s all good dirty wholesome fun. No consent means back off.
That’s why my husband can reach over and grab a boob, but any other man would draw back a bloody stump.
GardenGoblin(Quote) (Reply)
That’s the thing, though. The fact that there’s no consent _in the fantasy context_ is sexy to me. That is, the idea of me being a dainty flight attendant forced into a suitcase against my will, as a story or a roleplay fantasy, turns me on. Obviously that’s something I’d never want to happen to me in real life, though.
So, as far as it’s fake, I don’t feel like consent (in the fantasy itself) is the issue; what bugs me is more that this sticker makes kidnapping seem normal or funny, you know? To me, it’s a matter of context.
Tina Russell(Quote) (Reply)
Yes, but it’s your fantasy, and thus by default, you are consenting to have this aforementioned fantasy.
GardenGoblin(Quote) (Reply)
Yeah, I would say no matter the level of non-consent within the fantasy, fantasies of being forced to do something always come with built-in consent, since the victim-within-the-fantasy is actually the artist of what’s being forced upon her/him.
Jennifer Kesler(Quote) (Reply)
Yes, exactly.
I was just hoping nobody was objecting to the idea of non-consent in a fantasy, ’cause it’s different from real-life consent, which is paramount.
Tina Russell(Quote) (Reply)
I get that!
Jennifer Kesler(Quote) (Reply)
I LIKE THIS IDEA! I would actually buy it, too. Now THAT would be funny and actually in (more-or-less) good taste.
Ai(Quote) (Reply)
I totally get where you’re coming from, *whisper*I have occasional rape fantasies*whisper* and for a long time I was ashamed of myself for it, mostly due to the fact that men seem to misconstrue this as “Women really do like to be raped!” but it’s DIFFERENT IN A FANTASY! (I don’t really let anyone on to this because of said misconception, though)
Reality sucks…
Casey(Quote) (Reply)
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