This is one of the amazing things about today’s social media: It’s all written.
Tweets
Fluther quips
Facebook posts
Comment boards on all kinds of other presentations, etc.
All kinds of forums in all kinds of arenas of life, on media that’s pretty much available to anyone in the world … all kinds of verbal communication, and nearly all of it in writing. (That’s aside from the stuff on video, which is at least somewhat open to interpretation sometimes, because context cues are available, and because spoken language by its very nature often lends itself to some ambiguity.)
But in general, yeah, all of this written-word communication, and shared so widely, too.
And … the ironic kicker here … it seems like no one can write any more. And even fewer can read, I think.
Isn’t that a curious thing? @zenvelo made a great pick on a good interpretation: Your friend has stated, in writing, that he would break “nearly all of the laws of men” for Halle Berry. That’s a pretty clear statement, and @zenvelo picked up that this guy has pretty much declared that he’s open to perform murder, grand theft, kidnapping, fraud, extortion and blackmail, treason, you name it … “for Halle Berry”. And you took it only as “a bad rape joke.”
It seems like your interpretation is a lot more generous than what he actually said.
Look, your friend wasn’t making a joke, and he wasn’t declaring himself open to committing all of the crimes that are documented in thousands of pages of law books (in this country alone). He was writing hyperbole, badly, but still, that’s all that it was. And your interpretation might have been a little harsh, but yeah, he left it out there.