Why people keep buying that making a rape joke motivates rapists?

kragshot · 2011-02-18T01:48:16+00:00

I can't buy into "rape culture," because it is founded on a genderist intellectual mis-assumption. "Thug culture" is a reality; it is evidenced by the glamorization of gangsters, hoodlums, and criminal attitudes in general. You see where people are dressing and emulating thugs and gangsters in their everyday dress.

Nobody glamorizes rape.

Nobody emulates "famous" rapists.

How do you dress like a "rapist?"

Last I heard, rape is a crime and punishable by incarceration in a penal institution.

The only rape that I see being "celebrated" and humorised is male rape in prison. I guess that's an example of rape culture. However, I never see the rape of women being taken in a humorous context, so I must be missing something....

RevRound · 2011-02-17T18:12:02+00:00

For the same reason simple minded people think playing GTA will turn people into mindless carjacking sociopaths

rantgrrl · 2011-02-18T00:05:28+00:00

I am a rape survivor.

Do you know what triggers me? It's not rape jokes. Some of them are hilarious.

It's being treated like I don't exist or that I'm second class rape victim. (I was raped by a woman.)

Both of which happen every time I read feminist writings on rape. Why? Because they frame rape as 'patriarchal oppression' of women that men do to 'keep the woman down'. Or that rape is due to male socialization. Or that female aggressors are so vanishingly rare as to be irrelevant to the discussion. And it's derailing to bring them up, dontcha know?

Also, because of 'institutional privilege' it somehow hurts a victim more when a man is the rapist.

All of which renders what happened to me either invisible, irrelevant or less of a violation.

And all this 'rape culture' business? Pointing fingers at black humor? Pure projection on the part of feminists. They're the ones minimizing and dismissing and trivializing the kinds of rape that don't fit their social theories.

That's fucking triggering. And, as far as I'm concerned, feminists are the ones creating rape culture.

Terraneaux · 2011-02-17T22:30:50+00:00

I sometimes think this whole 'rape culture' business is somewhat similar to certain religious faiths' practice of sending out members to try and convert random people - the purpose of it is not so much for the actual converting, but rather for the proselytizers to experience the hostility oftentimes reserved for those who try to push their religious beliefs on other people, and thus feel like those outside of their faith are against them, which keeps them more closely tied to their church.

In a similar vein, people often react with hostility at the suggestion that they are a supporter of 'rape culture,' and I think that the way this is couched is not so much to convert people into believing in the so-called 'rape culture' but rather to insulate the followers of this belief from ever having to examine it by inducing a social situation in which they feel threatened.

discdigger · 2011-02-17T17:26:18+00:00

For the same reason people think that any joke that cites race makes you a racist. Some rape jokes really do trivialize rape, or make it sound "acceptable", and some race jokes really are quite racist.

I don't think the "dickwolves" comic promoted raping men, and I don't think that scene from the South Park movie (Operation: Get behind the darkies) was racist.

Unfortunately, many people have a hard time understanding that some != all. If you want me to explain why people are easily offended, and often have no sense of humor, you are out of luck.

mean0dean0 · 2011-02-18T00:20:08+00:00

What the hell is "triggering?" Is this even a real psychological phenomenon, or just another way for women to play the victim card?

zarquon989 · 2011-02-17T22:56:14+00:00

Feminists want rape to be regarded as the worst possible thing that can ever happen to anyone, that is always done by men. This is, of course, so they can make men feel guilty and leverage that feeling to gain power.

For this reason, feminists hate rape jokes, or indeed anything that suggests rape isn't the most horrible crime in the world.

migvelio · 2011-02-17T20:09:55+00:00

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discdigger · 2011-02-17T19:44:03+00:00

it's one of those dogmatic feminist declarations that you have to believe in otherwise you're sexist.

Like rape isn't about sex, it's about power

It's precisely because these notions are baseless that they have to be defended by silencing anyone who dares question them.

Also they serve as an affirmation of one's standing within an academic cult.

mindaika · 2011-02-17T20:27:39+00:00

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mindaika · 2011-02-17T23:41:10+00:00

You know, asking this kind of question only motivates people who make rape jokes.

Faryshta · 2011-02-17T23:17:47+00:00

Feminists don't think that all men are rapists. Rapists do.

C0il · 2011-02-17T21:44:45+00:00

Nobody thinks making rape jokes motivates rape.

Perhaps people are disgusted by the jokes because they are empathetic to, or have been themselves the victims of sexual abuse.I've had a girlfriend who is deeply affected by being raped and I find nothing humerus about forced sex. It's nothing but repulsive and cruel.

Also, bringing making light of rape into the realm of 'mens rights' makes you an asshole.

Digi2112 · 2011-02-17T23:53:35+00:00

Regardless, it is still in poor tastes. Maturity may have factor, apply if necessary, but doubtful because immature people do not look at themselves.

Title	Why people keep buying that making a rape joke motivates rapists?
Author	Faryshta
Upvotes	28
Comments	84
Date	February 17, 2011 5:05 PM UTC (15 years ago)
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