In June of 2016, Social Semiotics, a peer reviewed journal, published “Debating Rape Jokes vs. Rape Culture: Framing and Counter-Framing Misogynistic Comedy”. Raúl Pérez, an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Denver, and Viveca S. Greene, an Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Hampshire College restricted this academic article to the central themes of rape and humour in the United States of America (Pérez and Greene 280). They began by elaborating on the boundaries of the dominant framing and counter-framing of rape jokes. This was done through…