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  • I admit that is why I dont care about rape jokes(in the context of women which it's always is) b/c I know when males are raped or sexually mutilated it's treated as a joke or apatht..they had a guy not to long ago that was drugged and mutilated by his wife. They were actually making jokes about him on TV show the talk.(Sharon osborne being the worst) and on news coverage and blogs they were tounge in cheek. That made me apathic when women are raped or mutilated. Thats why im *ubermysgonist"

  • @ubermisogynist It's usually women that are targeted with rape and rape jokes. The rape of men is rarely portrayed in films. Ned Beatty's character was raped in Deliverance, and it was not played for humor or titillation; if it had been, more attractive cast members like Burt Reynolds or Jon Voight would have been targeted. His rape was, rightfully, seen as a horrible thing. Yet all the time in torture porn movies, the rape of a woman is played for laughs and sexual thrills.

  • what the fuck is wrong with this kid?

  • @angelsgurl

    I have no idea?

    She/he looks like a beaver that breaths from her/his mouth.

  • Cassidy was also heavily feminized. It was implied he was gay and his nickname was "beaver". It seemed like he was depicted also as having been victimized into being a defective male, like when his girlfriend wanted to go further sexually and he didn't. Then they made him Veronica's rapist and a psycho villain. I enjoyed the plot but I felt at the time there were possibly some homophobic undertones present. I don't know. Enjoyed this video.

  • @ThirdRAILKink Thanks for the comment. I'm writing an analysis of queer portrayals in VM, and this helps.

  • I loved Veronica Mars, but you're right.

    One thing that bugged me about VM was how violent she could be, and I think her violence was presented as acceptable becuase she's a female. I mean, there were definitely occasions where she whipped out her taser in self-defense but it seemed like in S2 and S3 there were a lot more instances of her just tasing someone out of spite. I'm thinking mostly of the party at the college she visited in S2 where she twice "drinked" a guy then tased him.

  • @ThirdRAILKink Yeah, the Taser thing. That also happened with Chloe in 24.

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  • Perhaps you are the best example of the idiocy that is YouTube. You espouse this somewhat cerebral comprehension of rape, you then began to deconstruct rape to the most basic level, as if your random pedestrian thought is worth public discourse. Unfortunately your annoying rhetoric has hit my ears, a few minutes of my life I'll never get back. Leave the philosophical debate to the big boys - clearly academia is not for you.

  • @TheGreatToopi You don't seem to understand the point of YouTube. It's supposed to be about ordinary people, hence the "You". If you want videos by experts, check out TeacherTube or Khan Acadamy.

  • @GoingRampant The point ot YouTube!!-- I'm afraid it's you that has missed the point, if you new anything you would know that YouTube has no point. It is a vacuous emptiness that attracts people like you to fill it with whatever nonsense pops in to their heads. While I find your apparent love affar with feminism repulsive - I find even more repulsive your attempts to justify and sustain its attempted proliferation amongst the simple minded population that you so much desire to convert.

  • @TheGreatToopi Are you criticizing me because I'm not an expert or because I am and it's in something you don't like? There are different areas of YouTube. I imagine the people who come here for simple things like seeing a dog ride a skateboard won't have ,much patience for an intellectual video, while other people come here to seek out such things. Also note that a fair number of the people who commented here came from a feminist website,

  • @GoingRampant The very fact that you publish your opinions on YouTube means that you obviously welcome criticicism. In fact I would gather from the evidence thus far that you somewhat enjoy criticism as it gives you a venue to communicate - something which is obviously lacking in you day to day life, otherwise how could you possible conform to the notion that is feminism with such zeal. Your intellecutal naivety continues to astound me - case closed - I'm out. P.S. start reading real books.

  • @TheGreatToopi posting personal attack is not criticizing, all you said is how she being a feminist repulse you and you never address the issue she talked about.

  • your gay lmao

  • I apologize for my rude behavior. I should have watch your entire video first. Thank you for being supportive of survivors. I get kind of sensitive and out of line when it comes to this. Please accept my apology. You're highly functioning for someone with autism. Which is very brave. Take care.

  • My son is a survivor or rape and I am as well. I find it amusing that an idiot such as yourself and others like you know what rape is. And your version of human nature and how life works is even more amusing than your IQ level. If there is one. Good luck and maybe you should start listening in school. If you go to school.

  • @vuitton48 You realize this is an anti-rape-culture video right? As in, I talk about male rape jokes being bad? My intelligence is rather high in certain areas as is typical for persons with high-functioning autism, but comparing individual intelligence misses the point, which is about debating ideas. Ad hominem attacks accomplish nothing. Hitler's act of commiting genocide was bad, but that doesn't mean he was wrong to keep dogs as pets. Who the person is doesn't reflect on separate actions.

  • I must congratulate you. This is probably the craziest shit I've heard all year. my hats off to you.

  • @originalprep I stayed at a friends house, I woke up in the early hours to find his girlfriend (i say girlfriend, they met on the web, hardly knew each other) riding me. The act it's self did not traumatise me. I made the mistake of talking about it to her via e-mail, boyfriend found out about this, printed off emails, told his social worker mother, police come arrest me, i get charged with harassment, get a 2 year suspended sentence, I am not believed but was treat like a pervert by angry cops.

  • One particularly disturbing VM scene was after the feminist group assaulted Chip. Veronica teases Chip in the cafeteria, saying something like, "Do you still have that Easter egg?" Chip was a jerk, but it's not ok to bring up his sexual assault in a cafeteria. I like VM, but, in the words of my husband the first time who watched it, "God, does EVERYONE get raped on this show?"

  • @karacherith Technically, Veronica was after the egg as evidence. Your point still stands, though. She does joke with Dick about it, and she makes the "you really wrecked 'em (rectum)" comment. And Dick's "keister egg" joke shows up in the official summary.

  • @GoingRampant Sorry, I should have been clearer--I was talking about the finale episode, where Veronica says, "Could you put your head up your ass before they stuck the egg in there, or is this new?" So there are at least two episodes where the show makes fun of Chip's assault. Now I'm beginning to realize how pervasive male rape jokes were in VM. Wow, and I really like that show...

  • @karacherith I echo that "Wow". I haven't seen season three in a while, so I forgot about the finale making a reference to it. While creator Rob Thomas did some cool things with female characters and defended the Veronica character from criticism that she's mean with noting that a similar male character would be forgiven, I think that he just doesn't understand feminism that well and that wasn't his primary motivation in making the show unlike Joss with Buffy. VM was originally written as a boy.

  • At what point do we draw the line between free speech, interpretation and sensitivity of a society?

  • You get 1000 awesome points from me. You make very valid points. It takes a very self-aware person to realize those things. You are going to make someone very happy someday.

  • @krybski

    as long as that someone dosent mind listening to his breathy complaining while he rapes him.

  • are you a guy or a girl??

  • You brought up many interesting points. I'm definitely going to watch the rest of your videos. (I love the teeshirt, too :)

  • Never thought of a rape joke as comparing a man to a woman and the humour coming from it being a womans position. It would have more been about a loss of power for the man, especially considering straight men would not consider it a comfortable way of intercourse(disregarding the rape of course). Its not about putting a man in a womans position so much as exposing their lack of power in a situation, especially for someone who was previously powerful(a crinimal over a victim or masterchief)

  • @Stephen3132 I agree about the power thing, but I do think its degradation is connected to the idea of being made like a woman. The victim is referred to as a "bitch", and the word "bitch" is connected to both women and male rape victims in common vernacular.

  • Considering that Halo is a game where people shoot and kill each other, I don't really care if people are pretending to hump a corpse.

  • @FatherTime89 You keep saying how much you don't care. In at least 5 comments. Please keep telling us about the sheer magnitude of your lack of caring.

    (I am assuming, though, that this video was for the people who do care, anyway, so you don't really need to be here.)

  • @piratefaafy I haven't mentioned how much I care just disagreeing. But please do go on putting words in my mouth.

  • @FatherTime89 I actually originally had a response to that in the video, but I cut it out to save time because I thought it was extraneous detail. The killing fits in a story about genocidal aliens and humans defending themselves. The multiplayer can be thought of as like a training exercise. Players know they're not killing each other and will communicate to each other, often using threats of rape, and the corpse humping is an extension of that player-player social interaction. It's about them.

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  • There's a reasonably mediocre British comedian called Jimmy Carr who said something interesting on the subject of transgressive humor. His claim was that his favorite reaction to an offensive joke was for the audience to first laugh and then groan. After the joke is processed the person disapproves but their initial response was to laugh and the initial laughter is quite telling. However, as far as idiots in highschool go, they'll say mindless offensive rubbish to get a rise because it gets one.

  • I noticed it too. A few months ago I saw an "Everybody loves Raymond" episode in which he was sexually harassted by a woman, and they made fun of it. It pissed me off! I wrote about it, but my blog is in Hebrew so I can't let you see it:/

    I really liked your video, and your style in general. I'll stick around.

    -Inbar.

  • Wonderful argument! Keep it up!  :)

  • @LacyBeast I don't know, maybe laugh really excessively loud and slap your knee and say something like "oh my god rape is hilarious!" Then go stock straight and throw him an eyeroll. That guy's a dick. I'm sorry.

  • Also if you're only going to talk directly to the camera than please be brief

  • @FatherTime89 She'll do what she damn well pleases.

  • @NotADood I thought it was a he. ...Still do. Anyway it's a suggestion not a demand.

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  • That was totally unnecessary both the comment about the length of her video and her gender, if you *really* feel the need to voice your opinion on her video style, then you can private message. It's just plain rude.

  • @feministfrequency I tried to be polite and advice on how to make better videos seems very appropriate for the comments section.

  • @FatherTime89 I'm using the style of YouTube film-making called vlogging, for which talking to the camera is a normal practice. I appreciate the value of being as brief as possible so as not to drown out my message with extraneous detail, but I do want to convey my thoughts as accurately as possible. I want to talk about how rape jokes can show up in media, which involves a discussion of such media and it is hard to compress that. I also speak that way in real life, so it's not a bad take for me

  • Patriarchal culture? Uh huh. Some people will joke about horrible things that happen to people, or just horrible things in general (I can't think of anything that's especially taboo for sick jokes). It's simply because some people enjoy dark humor. I do.

  • @FatherTime89 You enjoy humor about horrible things that are unlikely to ever happen to you. How very edgy.

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  • @NotADood I never said it was edgy so kindly knock off the straw men. But if for whatever reason it makes you feel better I enjoy jokes about death.

  • @LacyBeast Lacy, if you feel comfortable please feel free to tell an authority figure at the school; telling jokes like that in a public place, especially after getting such a negative response, amounts to sexual harassment. You were not overreacting, you were showing a great deal of sensitivity; you shouldn't have had to hear that.

  • Very well said. Thanks for uploading, it was a pleasure to watch!

  • Rape isn't funny.

    Rape jokes are.

    Just like dead baby jokes, or racist jokes, or handicapped jokes, or sexual jokes, or stereotype jokes.

    None of it is funny in real life, but I would rather hear a joke about rape than a shitty g rated knock knock joke.

  • @chuckinator11 Can we start to think at a socio-historical level here? Those jokes have origins from the infrastrucsture of society and continuing to make them perpetuate the oppression system where they historicaly come from. You find them funny, but the fact you do demonstrate the effetc of perpatuation of sexism or racism.

  • @observantdeer A dead baby joke doesn't have origins from the infrastructure of society, so that point you made is not a good one.

    And I treat people of different race and sex equally in public, so I can say I'm a good person.

    It's funny because it's offensive, nothing more.

  • @chuckinator11 Except it's not actually funny.

  • @NotADood Yeah just because you get offended by something doesn't mean other people don't find it funny.

  • @observantdeer Their roots have no impact on why people tell them. It's dark humor nothing more.

  • @chuckinator11 Gallows humor is only gallows humor when it comes from the person in the gallows. If it comes from the executioner or somebody picnicking on the lawn, it's just unfunny asshole humor.

  • @NotADood It's asshole humor, and I find it funny.

    I also find non offensive jokes and smart puns and other jokes funny too, so I'm not a plebeian.

    To each his own.

  • @chuckinator11 Unfunny asshole humor is unfunny. And puns are stupid and annoying, so it sounds like your sense of humor is shit.

  • @NotADood Lol whatever you say.

    Like I said, to each his own.

    And I enjoy good jokes as much as bad ones.

    Ever heard of mel brooks?

    Funny movies.

    TV show archer?

    Funny show.

    Community?

    Funny.

    Game. Set. Match.

  • @chuckinator11 nope

  • @chuckinator11 ive never heard a clever dead baby joke, racist joke, handicapped joke, sexual joke, or stereotypical joke. they are in no way more funny than any "g rated knock knock joke"

  • @Wildboring I never said anything about them being clever.

    They are funny because of how offensive they are.

    A g rated knock knock joke isn't funny because it's plain and not clever.

  • @chuckinator11 I personally found the "Orange you glad I didn't say banana" very clever the first few times I heard it. I don't find offensive jokes funny unless they've got something else going for them. The misogynistic jokes tend to sound the same when used by misogynists as with guys just being ironic. If guys really like telling each other sexist/racist jokes, I have to wonder what might translate into actual behaviors with such people as it seems respect can be dropped at a moments notice

  • @GoingRampant Wow, that comment was sexist.

    You just said only guys tell sexist/racist jokes.

    Ever heard of sarah silverman?

    She tells rape jokes.

    And it's not just misogynistic jokes, it's also misandryst jokes being told, which is the main focus of the video.

    If you are going to go on the campaign of 'equal rights for all', you better know what the hell you are saying.

    Jerk.

  • @chuckinator11 I am personally familiar with guys telling misogynistic jokes. I was speaking from experience. I never said *only* guys, just some guys and enough of them for there to be concern. I am familiar with Sarah Silverman and dislike her because of her rape jokes, such as in The Aristocrats. If you watched the video, you should be aware that I'm saying male/male rape jokes are told by guys in a misogynistic way and that the lack of misandry points at patriarchy behind them.

  • Thank you so much for tackling this subject, rape jokes are never okay and the fact that rape jokes about men are continually used as the punchline just for laughs is infuriating. I really appreciate you bringing up Veronica Mars because I was so disappointed with how they dealt with sexual violence throughout the whole series.

  • @feministfrequency Now that you mention it, it was pretty bad on the subject overall. I was thinking it was pretty much just S3, but you're right. Dick and Logan were pretty much forgiven for their GHB plots as far as I can tell just because they're cute and fun to watch. There was the weird rape plotline being discarded thing with the Duncan/Veronica twist in S1. One thing I do like, though, is how it portrays the justice system as misogynistic such as with Lamb disregarding Veronica's rape.

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  • Isn't Veronic Mars pretty hard edged? Granted, I only saw the first episode. Anyway, I like your thought provoking videos.

  • @elleoneiram Thanks. What exactly do you mean by hard edged? It deals with a lot of harsh subject matter as a noir type show if that's what you mean.

  • @GoingRampant Oh actually I meant Veronica the character. I was just posing the possibility that her casual attitude about male rape jokes could derive from her rough life, but I don't really know what I'm talking about since I haven't seen most of the show, lol.

  • Doll sent me this video. It's so perfect to watch this now. There's a guy on this site who is selling a tshirt with 'Got Rape' on it. It's disgusting. I pointed it out how horrible it was and him and his cronies false flagged the video and all the mirrors. Guys like him are horrible. But it's so funny to make money off rape right?

  • It's disgusting how prisoners are treated in this country. It's sick that we as a society think it's ok for someone who is considered "bad" should be raped. This goes for men as well as certain "uppity" women who need to be confined back to their societal role. Also, with so many people who have been molested/raped this society you'd think we'd take it seriously but, nope.

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