Rape jokes, not made of comedy gold. The San Diego Reader – attempting, rather ineptly, to channel The Onion – recently ran a bit of “almost factual news” about the recent Slutwalks. The title: “Slut Walk Devolves into Rape Run.”
Here’s the lede (as they say in the biz):
It was supposed to be a triumph for women eager to reclaim their sexuality from the threat of sexual violence. But sadly, Slut Walk San Diego went horribly awry as some 50 men, many of whom claimed to be unable to control their animal urges when presented with such a plenitude of hot female flesh, plunged into the crowd of over 2000 sluts in a quest for sexual gratification, consensual or otherwise. Dozens of arrests have been made, and police say it may be weeks before all the snatched panties have been returned to their rightful owners.
See, it’s funny because they were being raped!
Amazingly, the one comment that this lovely article managed to inspire was even less hilarious than the article itself. According to someone calling himself a86d:
Its bs like this that is further going drive culture to FURTHER feminize men and go back to that process of thinking that a man needs to be controlled because hes just a beast. BS we’re not animals, We’ve evolved and people need consequences….in this case …. BURN em. The Dilbert comic writer seems to think that all men need to be castrated because we can’t control our urges, because society forces us men to be a round peg in a square hole…..if you want to live a certain life style….you can find it. Own up, be mature, respectful and if you cross the line EXPECT TO BURN!
I’m not quite sure if all that BURNing is supposed to be directed at rapists or sluts. I’m guessing the latter, but in either case I don’t think I’ll be inviting a86d to my next barbecue.
So, NWOSlave, you think rape is an addiction? Or being attracted to women is a disease?
I personally read his text-walls for my daily dose of being just absolutely astounded that someone might actually take a minute to think that way.
Insert an “are” into that sentence Sarah and then it makes sense as a sentence.
As a comment, no.
Also, taking pupzors to the park/beach. Will return with pictures, because 8mo old pit puppy fetching small logs in the water, eating lakeweed, and trying to figure out fish is hilarious.
Sarah, can I vacation in your head? That would be awesome! (I keep wanting to type AWSome, still …) I’ll bring the floaty toys and a cooler full of drinks and a buncha stupid magazines. It’ll be fun!
Filetofswedishfish: Me too, with the NWO text-walls! I find really awful people a little entertaining, though. Hence, a handful of my Facebook friends and my addiction to Lifetime movies.
*squee* FoSF, I LOVE pits! Omehgawd, please do bring back pictures! =D
I think I have actually seen pictures before and read you talking about your pups, it just now sunk it that he is the BEST BREED EVAR. (Sorry Johnny.)
PFKaE, Ah! I understand now. Kind of.
Sure, Bee! I have a lot of empty space up there! I’ve heard the cerebrospinal fluid is really nice this time of year.
My mental image is now of an adorable Bee, wearing a huge, floppy sun hat and drinking a fruity cocktail with an umbrella in it, floating around on an inner-tube in my head-fluids. XD
Sarah – OMG. I used to have a roommate who had two pitbulls and they were the sweetest dogs ever. They were 80-pound lapdogs.
You can tell the difference between people who know pitbulls and people who don’t by whether their reaction is “um, the fighting dogs?” or “PIBBLE CUDDLES!”
@MRAL the comedy with Slavey in this particular post is that he was so very predictable. Nobinayamu called pretty much the exact rant the post right before slavey’s.
I’m a feminist, but I’m not against jokes involving rape. I tend to dislike them when they’re at the expense of the victim, though. Here’s a pretty funny one:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8FfFwtL91Q&w=425&h=349%5D
I seem to remember George Carlin doing a pretty good one, but I don’t have time to look for it right now.
Victim blaming is always appropriate for every crime ever. Got raped at a party? Shouldn’t have gotten drunk or dressed like a slut. Had your house broken into? Shouldn’t have left your home unattended. Vandals set your shed on fire? Your fault for making it out of fucking wood.
Personally I think these sluts got what was coming to them, and if they don’t like us pointing out this fact then tough shit. The whole rape epidemic is their fault anyway, if women would stop their hypergamous pursuit of alpha males and start giving betas and omegas the sexual service they’re entitled to there would be a lot less sexually frustrated men, and thus a lot less rapists.
I don’t understand why you people find NWOslave so entertaining. I literally never read his posts because they’re boring walls of text filled with the same rambling over and over.
You know, MRAL may have absorbed some weird ideas in his life, but I gotta give him this… he’s not dumb.
Elizabeth, oddly enough, I find that MRAL’s fragment makes more sense than his posts typically do.
Also too, the Second Gender War continues:
The War Begins
Sky Battle (features a special appearance by Bee, the Queen Beetch)
…Arks…do you release that it was a (badly written) joke article, with a disgusting commentor to boot?
Either way, though, your response is disgusting.
redlocker, you may want to go back and re-read Arks’ comment with your snark detector activated.
once all you guys have hollowed out each other’s heads to allow you to take up residence, what are you doing with the branes?
Asking for a friend, of course.
@Johnny but Arks’ name doesn’t have an ‘ami’ hidden in it. I’m confused!
The branes are still up there, ZRM. The commenters get translated into electrochemical impulses and inhabit a virtual headspace a la Herman’s Head.
Sorry.
Yeah, my snark detector must be broken. Whoops. :p
I thought the comment was sweet even if there was no actual connection to the comment at hand-but then I am a seeekert romantic.
MRAL, stop being so misandrist towards NWOslave!!!
The commenters get translated into electrochemical impulses and inhabit a virtual headspace a la Herman’s Head.
Monster. I already lived through Max Headroom once.
I think FoSF has the right idea. I think it’s time to engage in some dog-related program activities.
*flounce*
@MRAL: I don’t like rape jokes because even before I was sexually assaulted, I lived with the knowledge that due to my gender I was at risk to be raped. Now that I am a survivor, I tolerate them even less than I previously did.
That doesn’t really apply to murder.
Rawr! So now we have Sarah/Johnny/Bee
and me/Kirby/Molly Ren xD
I think it’s pretty obv Arks is.. well.. I think all the trolls that are taking this “article” srsly kinda prove they’re just.. well trolls (not that we needed more proof) xD
Nobinayamu should win all of the internet and half of real life too for predicting the response XD and also pointing out ahead of time that NWO just argues w/e he thinks annoys ppl.. yesterday he said women should not fear men, today he basically says every man is a potential rapist… xD (and I find him amusing like I find every troll here amusing, I like having them put out their entire worldview just to see what the world supposedly looks like to them xD it gives me ideas for things! xD)
http://www.racialicious.com/2011/06/28/heard-on-fxs-wilfred-not-asian-american-real-asian/
I hope this gets thru even a little to MRAL (and not “oh c’mon that’s funny!” or “that’s not that funny BUT YOU DON’T NEED TO GO CRAZY OVER IT” or something -_- )
But it’s basically what Kristin said:
“When someone tells a joke about Asian people and there’s no actual joke – the joke is the Asian people. The joke is [racist-comic voice] the funny way they talkie-talkie! “They don’t use proper diction! Only verb and noun! Verb and noun!” I just heard a comic that I respect doing that fucking joke the other night. An Asian comic. And I was like, “Dude! Write a punch line or you’re just being racist!””
In the same way if the joke is just “rape! haha!” it’s not funny b/c it’s coming from a v privileged perspective (not just male or female in this case, just the “privilege” which shouldn’t be a privilege at all, I just can’t think of another word, of never having been in danger of or experienced rape) where rape is so bizarre and so unlikely to the humourist or the intended audience, that simply RAPE should be funny… which is why there’s so many prison rape jokes, or jokes about raping men : b/c a lot of ppl don’t believe men can be raped, or that men are raped v often… while prison rape happens a LOT, the idea of being in prison and being raped is so … distant to some ppl that it’s funny b/c it’s like something rly random happening for humour… spontaneous combustion.. a car flying out of nowhere and flattening a guy… etc
So yeah, if the punchline is “rape!” and that’s it, that’s prolly not a good joke and it’s prolly one likely to offend ppl… (esp rape survivors).. also why do ppl always think that it’s like this big “let’s get rocket launchers and attack CBS!” thing (see, that joke hinges on the absurdity of getting rocket launchers) when often it’s “that’s just.. not funny >_<" also triggering.. which in this case this "joke" was srsly to me…
I hope that is explanatory and I did not just hit a wall of dense :