Rocks fall, everybody dies.

[kiya]

Okay, I blogged this already, but I must WTF to a larger audience.

A couple of shock jocks think it's a real trip when one of their guests suggests that he'd really like to rape a woman to death.

The hell is wrong with people anyway?


Time to curl up with a bottle of Woodchuck and just hide from the universe. What a capstone to a complicated evening coming across that shit was.

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[ruth-lawrence.livejournal.com]

Some people are actually broken, and I don't mean disabled.

Psychopathy isn't that uncommon and alas, it attracts sheeple.

I hope those guys never appear in the media again.

[wordweaverlynn.livejournal.com]

Of course, we know what causes this.The decline of traditional patriarchal values. Illegal immigrants. Short skirts and fast women. Oh, and gay marriage. In the good old days men never acted like this.

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

I... Uh. My words have left me.

[elf]

There's a thought, somewhere in my head, trying to get coherent enough to become an essay. About rape. About rape being about sex, no matter how many people try to tell us it's about "violence and power." Pistol-whipping is about violence and power, and nobody claims the victim asked for it. Nobody thinks it's maybe-kinda-understandable if your ex pistol-whips you. Rape is controversial because it ties to sex, ties to intimacy and sanctity, and being a perverted attack on those concepts doesn't eliminate those ties.

And about rape jokes, and sex jokes.

We mock what we fear, what we hate. Mockery makes it smaller, less scary. Mockery, done right, *eliminates* fear. What amuses us does not hurt us--or if it does, the hurt is less painful.

I don't know what they fear so much that they tell such awful violent hateful jokes about sex. But if you listen to some of the jokes, you can hear the undercurrent of abject terror... and that has to be faced, has to be acknowledged and reached, before any changes will happen. No amount of lectures or even deeply touching horrific stories will make them stop (by "them" I mean "all those generic guys what tell those stories," not "these two radio dudes"); they're running from something much bigger and stronger than public disapproval by strangers.

Thoughts not finished. Not sure where that idea's going.

[chabas.livejournal.com]

That reminds me of a friend in my WoW guild who changed his guildnote to "Sapped girls don't say no". He changed it as soon as I pointed out to him that I considered it offensive, but it just apparently didn't occur to him that anyone would have a problem with it.

It's a popular line, too. Several guilds of that name have been started on different servers, and every single one of them got told by Blizzard that this is not acceptable (once Blizzard found out, of course). Of course, I have a strong suspicion that that just means they got told "hey, not cool. Change it." and that's it.

[surelars.livejournal.com]

bleh

I'm disgusted that people say hateful things like that. And it makes it all the more painful that they hide behind "humour" and pretends that that somehow makes it OK.

And no, I don't know what's wrong with people. I can't think of reasons that people go along with so much hate.

[labrys6.livejournal.com]

Yeah, wtf IS with this attitude? All of a sudden, everywhere one turns, rape is just freaking hilarious?? What the hell kind of backlash is THIS? Of course, then, I would just have to shoot off my big mouth at those asshats and ask them exactly how they think they would be CAPABLE of what they claim would be such a freaking hoot. Real man, my ass.