You Had To Be There: Rape Jokes

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We propose that under conditions of ambiguity, people rely more on rape myths and external norms to understand appropriate reactions to a sexual assault. I was too young and unworldly to challenge them then, but I would have a very different response today. Since 2013, the comedian has been satirizing and skewering rape culture via her award-winning show Asking For It, which has been praised for its sophisticated treatment of a topic that so many comics fail to confront.

This is why we have this narrative that rape jokes are entirely bad — because of the damage they can do to individuals, and because of the wider pattern that they play into. From popular hip hop lyrics we’ve become a society that turns rape and violence into jokey throwaway lines. People like Jim [a defender of punch-down rape jokes] desperately want to believe that the engines of injustice run on outsized hate—stranger rapes in dark alleys, burning crosses and white hoods—but the reality is that indifference, bureaucracy, and closed-door snickers are far more plentiful fuels. Hopefully Sydney's message will make an impact and get her school board and schools across the nation to rethink how we measure students' success. The consensus among the group, as far as Alan can tell, is that rape culture is a complex issue and a touchy subject, but not one that they as boys have to worry about.

In football, as in capitalism, our coach reminds us the whole point of the game is “violently dominating anyone that stands between you and what you want.

Just as their bodies and reproductive freedom are open to legislation and public discourse, so are their other issues. Besides, sex is always intertwined with social/status concerns and other psychological motives; that's why it's such a powerful ingredient in drama. One big thing about rape culture is I always hear the jokes that are like, ‘No means yes,’” Skyler said.The time and the place to do so is critical — doing them in a comedic act with an unknown audience is one thing, and risks triggering people and reinforcing damaging prevailing attitudes.

For instance if a girl passes out and the guy carries on anyway but does anyone here really think that that would get them off if it was purely about sex? When presented with a series of sexist jokes, men harboring high levels of hostile sexism reported greater rape proclivity in moderately violent rape scenarios if a woman told the jokes than if a man told them. Sexist men used the emergent prejudiced norm to guide their own interpretations of the moderately violent rape scenarios that did not clearly conform to the “real rape stereotype. To state rape must never be joked about denies to victims who deal with their issues by belittling them a voice.I've seen nobody link any studies, interviews, or even documented cases, and yet a valid point has been completely dismissed. Freedom of speech is a valued ideal, but is making jokes about the physical and mental devastation of women the best we can do with that right? I think the reason people react so strongly to the subject of rape jokes is because it is too common. Despite the fact that there's nothing funny about rape, I couldn't stop the smile from spreading across my face when I read one-liners like "Apparently 'Ramadan' isn't to be taken literally.