Rape is Hilarious

I may be completely fucking up here with a title like that, and i imagine there will be a lot of bat shit insane 13-28 year old never leave home pseudo feminist's searching for things to be offended about and then re posting links to this blog saying "Look what this asshole wrote, i didn't read the whole thing but its probably offensive." giving this entry WAY more traffic then it really deserves and or just a bunch or people with a dark sense of humor looking for 15 minutes to kill.

BUT STAY WITH ME HERE GUYS, its not what you think. This is not a pro rape article and i am sorry if the title triggered any negative feelings, i imagine that most people that would be triggered that saw a title like that would probably just not bother reading it and look the other way. So again apologies for offense, if you genuinely are triggered and you have read this far then i imagine that you probably are pretty intelligent and want to read what i have to say.

Okay, it sucks that i feel the need to write a bullshit qualifier and that i can't just jump into writing a bunch of random ideas without fear of repercussions, but then thats life innit.
NO RAPE IS NOT HILARIOUS, what i want to address here is the subject of males getting raped in film....as a joke.

Ive noticed the double standard joke of, woman gets raped in movie=drama, man gets raped in movie=comedy gold.

Now of course this all depends on taste and what you think is or is not funny, but i think the general consensus is that a man getting raped in cinema is usually played off as a joke, why is that? Rape is horrible, degrading, humiliation, a crime where the victim is blamed, an act of violence where sex is the weapon and in general a pretty fucked up thing? But if its a guy its comedy.

So when does it become comedy, well....when its a joke.

Q:When is rape funny?
A:Never.....however a joke ABOUT rape CAN be funny.

How can this be? I think the main point i am getting at that, ANYTHING is funny if its a joke, joking about a real person that REALLY got raped is not funny, a joke about rape can be.

Much like murder, in the cartoon South Park characters are murdered in horrible violent ways all the time and we laugh, in the film Inglourious Basterds, there is a horific scene of Hitler being murdered and everyone rejoices in laughter. In the film Home Alone, two burglars are brutally tortured throughout the film and that is a comedy for kids.

I guess what i am saying is that, regardless of the subject matter, anything that is absurd can be considered funny.

Ill write it again, IF IT IS ABSURD THEN IT IS COMEDY.

Humor is a subjective thing and of course jokes in poor taste won't get a laugh from everyone, but i imagine that EVERYONE at one point or another has laughed at some joke, that if it happened in real life, would scar the people it was about and probably those that viewed it. Even the people that find jokes about violence (rape is a crime of violence) in poor taste could find themselves laughing at one, because, its something absurd.

What i wonder about is the double standard in humor....for example, a film i watched called Big Stan.

The Premise of this film is a person trying desperately not to get raped.....its a comedy.....thats pretty fucked up, but i guess because its a male its comedy.

Imagine if that movie was about a female desperately trying not to get anally raped, suddenly it becomes quite dark. My point being is why is it when its about a male it can be considered a comedy?

My theory is that maybe its because GENERALLY as a society we still consider the idea of a male being raped completely absurd, and as a said before, absurd=comedy.

They darkness doesn't lie in the film, a movie is a movie, its fiction, the darkness lies in our own ideas about males getting raped.

Maybe its because we view men as strong and we are not sexually mature and we look at sex as a dominance thing. We PENITRATE our enemies like we PENETRATE our women...and the idea that a man can be dominated by sex is "absurd".

The idea that a man being raped is absurd, is, in itself absurd.

No one being raped is funny or correct, regardless of age gender or if they are a rapist themselves, rape is never appropriate or just. I think we all know in our hearts that this is true.

There is no conclusion to this article, just something i wanted to mention, our attitudes towards rape and comedy and what constitutes something being funny (subjectively speaking of course)

And im not a men's rites activist or anything like that, i just got through watching Pulp Fiction again and was wondering if "THAT" rape scene was meant to be comedy, because i never found the rape funny, although i found the whole absurdity of what was happening in general pretty funny.

Disclaimer number 2: I am not anti expression, i think a joke is a joke and should never be taken seriously, REGARDLESS of the subject matter, however just be aware that not everyone is up for hearing your joke, not need to FORCE your rite to freedom of expression by intruding on their rite to freedom of leave me the fuck alone fuck head.