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[tj_rowe]

I really, really hate when my housemates make rape jokes. Like, really hate it. I called her out ('Please stop reinforcing rape culture at me'), got called crazy and informed by the one who made the 'joke' that she 'cares about feminism' (though apparently not about a person's right to bodily autonomy) before she flounced off.

Does anyone else find stuff like this massively triggering?

Comments

[ultharkitty.livejournal.com]

Hell yes. And it makes me want to punch people very hard in the face.

[spikeygrrl.livejournal.com]

I dunno, sometimes I can do rape jokes, it depends on the circumstances. Pyramid Head rape jokes? Totally, I'll do that all day. Silly macros that say "You gonna get raped" or something like that? Sure. But when people start going on about how much it ruins someone's life to be accused of rape and how women lie about being raped all the time just because they didn't want to have sex with some guy that I start seeing red. There was a Whitest Kids U Know sketch like this, and it made me so angry. "Hahahaha, if you didn't like the guy you had sex with, it's totally rape!" Because, you know, it's not like most rapes go unreported because women hear shit like this and think that everyone is going to assume that they're lying. There's nothing, NOTHING worse than hearing that you wanted it.

[kiwi-from-hell.livejournal.com]

It's the sort of joke that should only be made when you know everyone you're talking to is on exactly the same page. And some jokes I'm totally fine with if my boyfriend or best friend says it, but if it's someone I don't know well? Yeah, offensive.