I don't understand, isn't the point of a joke to make fun of something? Why do we laugh?
The dude wasn’t defending Daniel Tosh, he was more making fun of the fact that people got offended, and then attempted to use their offense to gain moral high ground on a rape issue.
Comedy is just that, comedy, and if you are offended by something somebody says, then you have the right to leave, or say some offensive shit back.
What you don’t have the right to do is try and pretend that your better than somebody else because you don’t find a particular *difficult* topic funny.
Just sayin’
Yes, because rape is totally funny. It’s so fucking hilarious to be forced to have sex against your will and even more hilarious to have something like that directed at you by someone who has the fame and power to make it seem like it’s okay. I don’t know about you, but I think I’ve got the right to be offended. I honestly don’t expect anything from people who haven’t had it happened to them.
I won’t wish it on anyone because it’s a disgusting act and should never, EVER be joked about. In all seriousness, I won’t leave or stop bitching until he apologizes and means it or is publicly embarrassed and his fame taken.
tl;dr: fuck you, rape isn’t funny.
Yeah.
Also, rape jokes are pretty damn nasty because of how they trivialize the subject.
There’ve been studies showing that rapists actually believe everyone else rapes, and they just hide it better. When people make rape jokes, they trivialize the subject and make it seem OK.
So no.
Rape jokes = bad.
Isn’t the whole point of a joke to trivialize a subject?
Isn’t the whole point of having our freedom of speech is that you can say whatever you want, whenever you want and if people have a problem they can stop listening or try and counter what you’re saying?
I mean in a real world setting if somebody was advocating rape, I’d be right up there with you telling them to fuck off.
But at a comedy show? I’ve seen much worse come out the mouths of George Carlin (suicide channel) and Russel Peters (racism to the extreme) but you don’t ever hear people complaining about their jokes.
What makes Tosh any different?
It doesn’t make Tosh any different. This also brings up the issue surrounding the gender of the person being raped. No one bats an eye when someone makes a crack about a convicted felon going to jail and getting introduced to the “Penal System”, do they? That’s comedy gold! Or how about this joke: A Catholic Priest walks into a boy. CLASSIC!
Oh, but saying it about a woman is offensive? Please, I believe in egalitarianism, which is the same rights and freedoms for all of humankind, so don’t sell me your White Knightery, Tumblr, I’m not interested in buying it.
crack about a convicted felon going to jail and getting introduced to the “Penal System” <- hilarious!
Or how about this joke: A Catholic Priest walks into a boy. <- hahahahaha
Sorry, I couldn’t help myself …
Laughter is a birthright. We’re born with it. We don’t decide to laugh, but we can stop ourselves from laughing (except for some giggles). Laughter provides powerful, uncensored insights into our unconscious.
Very little is known about the specific brain mechanisms responsible for laughter. We do know that laughter is a response to social and linguistic cues, and that it activates many parts of the body.
The Laughing Brain 1: How We Laugh
If we tickle chimps or gorillas, they don’t laugh “ha ha ha” but exhibit a panting sound. That’s the sound of ape laughter. And it’s the root of human laughter.
Human Laughter Echoes Chimp Chuckles
How chimpanzees are just like humans: They laugh at jokes to bond even if they are not funny
The story doesn’t stop there. Other animals produce vocalizations during play too, but the sounds they make are not so easy to recognise by us humans as laughter. Laughter is associated with play and we are learning when we are playing.
I also have a more serious note: there’s a difference between “laughing with” and “laughing at.” People who laugh at others may be trying to force them to conform or casting them out of the group. “Laughing at” carries a threat of banishment, of isolation, and on a deeper level, that is a threat to survival of the individual being laughed at.
You couldn’t stop me from laughing. Only I can. You can shame me, try to make me feel guilty of laughing, or pass a law to stop me from laughing, but I unseriously seriously doubt it would work. Note how none of any of this is about the little boy that has been raped by a priest, or the felon that was raped by another felon, or the woman that was raped by a man or another woman.
I was laughing at the rapists, cleaning my system of recognised pain and feelings of powerlessness, and laughing together with whymikashfights. Thank you for the jokes bro.
TW: RAPE, SEXUAL ASSAULT.Over a 20-year period, asking some 2,000 men in college questions like this: “Have you ever had sexual intercourse with someone, even though they did not want to, because they were too intoxicated [on alcohol or drugs] to resist your sexual advances?”, or “Have you ever had sexual intercourse with an adult when they didn’t want to because you used physical force [twisting their arm, holding them down, etc.] if they didn’t cooperate?”
About 1 in 16 men answered “yes” to these or similar questions.
1 in sixteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen are you kidding me
if we got 1 in 16 motherfuckers admitting to raping women on college campuses and are “very forthcoming. In fact, they are eager to talk about their experience”, you better fucking believe tossing out your short skirt and staying in at night isn’t going to keep you safe.
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Even worse:
In a survey of 11-14 year-old boys…
- 51% believed that “forced sex” is acceptable if a boy spends a lot of money on a girl
- 31% believed that it would be okay to rape someone with past sexual experience
- 65% believed that sexual assault is okay if dating for more than 6 months
- 87% believed that sexual assault is okay if the perpetrator and victim are married
…aaand in a survey of college males…
- 1 in 12 admitted to committing rape (under the legal definition)
- 35% admitted that they would commit rape under circumstances if they could get away with it
…and in another…
- 43% of college-aged men admitted to using “coercive behavior” such as ignoring a woman’s nonconsent and using physical aggression
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really? how does this not make me even more scared? fuck
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reblogging for commentary
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And these numbers are based on the guys who are WILLING to admit their sexual misconduct. How many are there that wouldn’t?
I’m going to throw up.
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fuck this is scary
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This is the number one issue screwing up our society today. More than half of my female friends have been raped, and the number is higher if you counted those who had sex in situations they’re not calling rape but I would - they’re giving the guy the benefit of the doubt about how clearly they were able to make him believe the “no”. It should be way way higher on everyone’s agenda, male or female!
Also, it makes me so fucking angry I could spit. I don’t know what to say.
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#Rape victims say military labels them 'crazy' #US #army
By David S. Martin, April 14, 2012, via @Bomdigitee
Editor’s note: CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta will report further on allegations of sexual assault in the military Saturday and Sunday April 21 and 22 at 7:30 a.m. ET on “Sanjay Gupta MD” on CNN.
(CNN) — Stephanie Schroeder joined the U.S. Marine Corps not long after 9/11. She was a 21-year-old with an associate’s degree when she reported for boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina.
“I felt like it was the right thing to do,” Schroeder recalls.
A year and a half later, the Marines diagnosed her with a personality disorder and deemed her psychologically unfit for the Corps.
Anna Moore enlisted in the Army after 9/11 and planned to make a career of it. Moore was a Patriot missile battery operator in Germany when she was diagnosed with a personality disorder and dismissed from the Army.
Jenny McClendon was serving as a sonar operator on a Navy destroyer when she received her personality disorder diagnosis.
These women joined different branches of the military but they share a common experience:
Each received the psychiatric diagnosis and military discharge after reporting a sexual assault.
“I’m not crazy,” says Schroeder, who is married now, with two daughters. “I am actually relatively normal.”
McClendon says she had a similar reaction.
“I remember thinking this is absurd; this is ridiculous. How could I be emotionally unstable? I’m very clear of mind, especially considering what had happened.” McClendon says. “It was a ludicrous diagnosis.”
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What’s ur excuse now?
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From the Delhi police: Why women deserve to be raped
One of the most depressing aspects of writing about the recent string of rape cases are the responses these kinds of stories inevitably evoke. The Internet trolls come out in swarms to condemn the victim: for being out late at night, for being divorced, talking to strangers, drinking, dressing “provocatively”, and, the worst, for making it all up. Who are these people, I’d wonder, who genuinely believe that a woman would deliberately provoke sexual assault, and failing that, pretend she’d been raped – and go public with it.
Because, really, being a rape victim in India is so much fun. First, you’re humiliated by the cops, then your personal life is put on trial by the media. After a couple of years being ground down by the judicial process, you get your moment in court where you’re expected to recount every detail – and I mean, every detail – in open court. All this only to find that in the great majority of cases, it’s all been for naught because the original investigation was shoddy and flawed. Your assailants go scot-free while you are tarnished for life as “damaged goods” in our enlightened society.
Can any sane, right-thinking person really, really believe that most women deliberately incite rape or invent rape charges?
As it turns out, the online creeps are in good company – of the Delhi-NCR police. A Tehelkasting aimed at 23 police stations across the NCR reveals a level of misogyny that is not unexpected, but is shocking nevertheless. [Do check out the testimonies of these police officers in detail here. The Tehelka expose is unpleasant but required reading]
Now, I could skewer these attitudes as absurd, regressive, and just plain wrong. But having waded through the testimonies of these men – who are Station House Officers, not the average havaldar – I was left shaking with rage and fear. I realised that according to stringent criteria of the Delhi Police, almost all women deserve to be raped.
