Posted on Sunday, 21 November 2010

“Let’s talk about rape for a moment. Rape is not what George Lucas did to your childhood. Rape is not what happens when a sports team beats another sports team by a wide margin. Rape is not what happens when your electric bill is higher this month than it was last month. Rape is when a person violates another person in the most despicable, degrading way imaginable and among the myriad of terrible things humans can do to one another, rape is among the worst. I think the casual misappropriation of the concept of rape extending all the way to its widespread comical usage is disgusting even by Internet standards. Off my chest.”

ETA: to all the rebloggers who deliberately miss the point. Your ‘right’ to say something hurtful and offensive trumps the rights of those who have been raped to not be reminded of it and have their experience degraded in the name of your lazy-assed ‘humour’? Congratulations, you fail as human being.

Jeffrey Rowland - Overcompensating

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    With this quote, I’d like to introduce a campaign started by my Gender Studies classmates. Say No to Rape Jokes - please...
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