How to get yourself upvoted on the Men’s Rights subreddit: Suggest that people making rape jokes help to protect men from false rape allegations. That at least seems to be the clear implication of this comment from DoctorStorm (hopefully not a real doctor):
How to get yourself downvoted on the Men’s Rights subreddit: Tell DoctorStorm that the reason you shouldn’t tell rape jokes is that some of those in your audience may be rape victims, and that as a decent human being you might just want to be a tiny bit concerned about their feelings:
Douchebaggery towards rape victims: it’s a Men’s Right!
It’s true. Rape jokes do protect men from rape accusations.
…true or false.
So I guess they’d be totally OK with jokes about prison rape then?
The second poster made the classic mistake of using the word “triggering.” Everyone knows that the existence of that word is LANGUAGE CONTROL.
Hey, that’s me! I suppose me being mentioned here will ruin my reputation in the face of all MRA from here on out. I struggle to shed even one drop of liquid sorrow.
It’s true! The more you use rape jokes, the less likely that any rape accusations against you are false.
What the hell is wrong with these people? They are obsessed with “thought control,” they don’t even know what it means judging by the number of times “THOUGHT POLICE” gets thrown around on Reddit with no real idea of what that term means.
They also don’t get the difference between thought control and just simply getting shit for demeaning others. No matter how many times feminists (or others) say “you can still say whatever the fuck you like, we’re just not going to sit by and let it slide”, they still think we’re trying to throw them in jail for saying “bad words”.
Don’t you all know that “please don’t say that, it hurts me” is the EXACT SAME as making it illegal for that phrase to ever be uttered? Triggers are CENSORSHIP!
Redditors always remind me of this
http://www.theonion.com/articles/come-on-lighten-up-im-just-being-a-total-asshole,11456/
I’ve probably posted it before, but in discussions of Reddit (and MRA’s), it’s always relevant
Ninja’d by Crumb on the prison rape jokes. We all know how consistant and fair MRAs are when it comes to what sexism and hate of the opposite sex is acceptable *eyeroll*
OMG, the Onion piece was great. That is exactly them. Thx for sharing.
Hence the existence of the MRM.
Another problem with a lot of rape jokes is that so often they are treating rape as something that is just bound to happen and is part of a healthy man’s sex drive. Even worse, sometimes they appear to be contemplating whether something is really bad at all.
Worst rape “joke” that I have heard repeated: If you rape a prostitute is it rape or shoplifting?
This “joke” is hinting that maybe raping a powerless prostitute really isn’t a big deal. There are people who actually think that, which makes the joke so scary and disgusting.
did he seriously say this without irony?
argh, ninja’d!
Apparently they fail to see the difference between being told “you’re upsetting people” and censorship.
Either that or they’re that class of people who think “free speech” means “I can say whatever the hell I want whenever I want with no consequences whatsoever”.
There also seems to be the implication that they don’t think hurting people is something to feel bad about.
There are always going to scumbags making horrible jokes. Remember all the horrible Ryan White jokes in the 80’s? If people can mock an innocent child, they can mock anyone. The internet just brings out everyone’s inner asshole because of the anonymity. MRAs and PUAs act like big shot alphas online. In real life they’re pathetic losers who don’t have even the self confidence to correct a stranger who mispronounces their name. At least one good thing I can say about Bernard Chapin is that he isn’t anonymous. If you’re going to spout stuff online, at least be strong enough to own it in real life, too.
Joking about cutting off men’s balls will prevent loreena bobbit type cases….right MRAs?
Yeah, I enjoy their complaints (which came up in that Reddit thread, but has come up before) that feminism is bad because it`s concerned with how people feel.
you are right ragefromthebasment. I can think of no place in all the Internet where people dislike and call out rape jokes, or even other misogynistic behavior. let alone a whole blog community set up to do such things.
@Quackers
They’ll stop the epidemc of false castration accusations though!!!!
And of course, no men are ever raped, ever, so why would you want to refrain from telling rape jokes with the guys?
They should tell a lot of Bobbiting jokes then because they are deeply concerned about reducing the incidents of castration and circumcision.
Rather more to the point, there are lots of places on the internet where people don’t get called on stuff.