You Had To Be There: Rape Jokes

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Every “joke” is another jab, and seeing how pervasive rape culture still is today, it looks like my wound will never close. NET PROFIT FROM CONTRIBUTIONS WILL BE DONATED TO RAINN, THE NATION’S LARGEST ANTI-SEXUAL VIOLENCE ORGANIZATION. The sex drive is one of the most fundamental instincts in humans, as in all animals that practice sexual reproduction, and we know people will do all kinds of freaky things to achieve sexual gratification. But if we're to have a "serious, level-headed discussion", I think we need to get beyond platitudes.

Urbanette moderates and edits comments for grammar and to facilitate an informed, substantive, civil conversation. The protagonist here is a male coach, and women including Schumer, are alternately apathetic or hostile to his attempts to remove rape as practice from a rape culture here figured in a small town, working class and dubiously Southern (backward with bad accents) community. But Place's work shows that rape jokes aren't rape and considers why rape jokes are very funny to very many people, and persistently so. The authors replicated these findings in a second experiment measuring rape proclivity in general, rather than in reference to a specific fictitious woman.

We know by now, that part of the totality of rape culture is that it pervades every part of life; and every cultural sphere.

In this way, the comedian who promotes this attitude bears some similarity to a rapist himself, and responsibility for rape culture. I am thinking here of recent discussions and debates about shaming or outing rapists in cultural ‘communities’ on the left generally, and in the poetry community most recently (over the past year or so). So, what does the construction of this piece do at its basest level, this imagining and absurdist representation of rape culture as something accepted, even lauded? The survey found that “About half [of girls] said they hear boys making sexual comments or jokes about girls daily, including a quarter of girls 10 to 13.Note: acquaintance rape is the most common form of rape; therefore, this is encourages discrimination against most victims 7. I have rarely agreed with Hartley-Brewer on anything (for one thing, I love the face masks she so frequently tirades about – they’re fabulous for hiding the double chin). Arguably, ‘we’ speak more frequently about ‘rape culture’ now than we did, say, in the eighties or the nineties.

She thinks that rape jokes are extremely disrespectful to people who have experienced sexual assault. 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.

Poehler joined in the mockery, and the cameras panned an audience in which some of the celebrities seemed to think that the anti-rape jokes were funny and some of them looked like deer in headlights. In terms of the mutually sustaining relationship that exists between rape culture and rape, it might be useful to consider carefully, for example, this simple question; if one’s ability to make an informed affirmative decision is decisively impaired due to cognitive impairment and that is ignored by another to procure sex, is this an act of rape? Wanting to watch television one night, and finding – surprise, surprise- that most of the programs were in French, we started watching some stand-up comedians on Netflix. Rape proclivity among men high in hostile sexism did not differ as a function of the gender of the joke teller.

This parody operates as a dark joke predicated on its inextricability from both common and popular culture.Cavalier jokes about domestic violence and rape (jokes that target victims, not perpetrators) feed that aura of feeling unsafe and unwelcome—not just in the comedy club, but in the world. I have heard people that say [‘no means yes’] and then someone else, you can see they have that lightbulb moment, like, ‘Oh. At the outset the football team in the locker room tries to find loopholes in the coach’s “no rape’ rule.