The Rise In "Rape Talk"

[VAiN]

I'll be honest, I hate the word, the thought, etc... I guess it comes down to personal experience. I have 2 good female friends who have been assaulted, so I take it very personally. I don't use the word and I don't see any humor in it. I guess it's different when you've witnessed the end result.

[Seshmeister]

The funny thing is that statistically 9 out of 10 people actually enjoy gang rape.

[Seshmeister]

I guess that's the sort of thing that people are complaining about. To me it's not a bad joke but I wouldn't tell it at a rape victims support group.

Unless I was there as a victim.

Context is everything.

[ThrillsNSpills]

Getting offended is a personal choice, not a right.

[ThrillsNSpills]

Context is everything.

So very true .

[chefcraig]

It's fairly discouraging when you realize that there appears to be a relatively large audience for the damned act. One of NBC's highest rated programs (Law & Order SVU) brings the subject into your living room every single week. The Hollywood film industry actually has a genre of films referred to as "torture-porn", so named for the humiliation and degradation depicted in films like the Saw series. The porn industry (which has made a comfortable cottage industry exploiting women over the past 50 years) has developed a new sub-genre during the recent decade depicting the subjugation of women, with the repugnant side bar that the women had somehow "asked for it" through some otherwise innocuous act. Even worse, defenders of this despicable garbage offer the absurd observation that the films empower women, which is complete and utter horseshit, as you can not empower the same individual you are in the process of exploiting.

So how and why did this cultural shift take place? Who knows, but there is a truly warped undercurrent of titillation at work here, one that reveals not only a fascination with, but (to an extent) an acceptance of sordid, sick behavior, one that has filtered down into use as part of standard conversation.

And before anyone makes an issue of the avatar I'm currently using while making these points, believe me, I'm considering a change. After all, it is true that if you aren't part of the solution, you are indeed part of the problem.

[VAiN]

The funny thing is that statistically 9 out of 10 people actually enjoy gang rape.

OK, I'll admit, that's pretty funny.

[Seshmeister]

And before anyone makes an issue of the avatar I'm currently using while making these points, believe me, I'm considering a change. After all, it is true that if you aren't part of the solution, you are indeed part of the problem.

I don't see what torture porn has to do with your avatar.

These slippery slope, if you aren't part of the solution you are part of the problem arguments rarely add up. You'll just end up either a lying hypocrite like your average family values politician/preacher or sticking girls in burkas.

[chefcraig]

I don't see what torture porn has to do with your avatar.

These slippery slope, if you aren't part of the solution you are part of the problem arguments rarely add up. You'll just end up either a lying hypocrite like your average family values politician/preacher or sticking girls in burkas.

I suppose it has to do with the nature of exploitation, along with the strength of one's convictions, a sort of "put your money where your mouth is" type of deal. On the other hand, I completely agree that if you try to be all things to all people, you wind up being nuthin' to nobody.

[ELVIS]

Kwame must be a straw man...

[ELVIS]

Context is everything.

Exactamundo...

[kwame k]

Kwame must be a straw man...

I am the Egg Man, I am The Walrus.........

[Seshmeister]

I suppose it has to do with the nature of exploitation, along with the strength of one's convictions, a sort of "put your money where your mouth is" type of deal.

I just hope that you are using your posts in this thread as a subtle way of tempting some chick into the sack with the old reverse sensitivity technique.

[hambon4lif]

I suppose it has to do with the nature of exploitation, along with the strength of one's convictions, a sort of "put your money where your mouth is" type of deal. On the other hand, I completely agree that if you try to be all things to all people, you wind up being nuthin' to nobody.

The gal in your av is posing for that picture.
She's not spreading her gash or have a cock in her mouth, so I'm having a bit of difficulty understanding how you feel you're exploiting her or crossing any lines. It makes no sense.

[Seshmeister]

On a related topic what does piss me off is the constant portrayal of torture as an effective method to get great information. I boycotted 24 because it is so full of it and then now it pops up in the new Boardwalk Empire show. It's bullshit and harmful bullshit too. These programs go all around the world and will be used to help justify all sorts of nasty stuff in crappy dictatorships.