Steubenville, but so much more.

[sheshe2]

SNIP:

Here’s what I want to write about: I want to write about the fact that I know — and if you think about it, you know it, too — that someone else was raped in Steubenville that very same night. And if not in Steubenville then right next door.

Someone was raped down the street from where you live that very same night. Someone was raped down the street last night. Someone is being raped right this minute. Possibly many someones. On average, someone is sexually assaulted in America every two minutes of every day.

Like in the Steubenville case, where the survivor left a party with one of her rapists “because she trusted him,” about two-thirds of all rapes are committed by people the survivor knows. According to RAINN (Rape, Abuse, & Incest National Network), 38% of rapists “are a friend or an acquaintance.” And 97% of rapists “will never spend a day in jail.”

Steubenville will have its writers. The people in that story — the rapists, the abusers, their accomplices, the parents who failed to raise their boys to respect the humanity and dignity of women, the parents working to help their daughter heal — all of them will get more coverage than any of them will ever want. America will know them and talk about them for the rest of their natural lives.

http://angryblackladychronicles.com/2013/03/19/i-dont-want-to-write-about-steubenville/#more-83563


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http://www.rainn.org/statistics

An exhaustive government survey of rape and domestic violence released on Wednesday affirmed that sexual violence against women remains endemic in the United States and in some instances may be far more common than previously thought.

Nearly one in five women surveyed said they had been raped or had experienced an attempted rape at some point, and one in four reported having been beaten by an intimate partner. One in six women have been stalked, according to the report.

This is extraordinarily upsetting to read. Frightening. Exhausting.

But not surprising.

Because every single woman lives with these facts in her skin, in her veins. They shape the arc of our lives and the contour of our days.

http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2011/12/15/rape-as-a-defining-characteristic-of-american-society/

Tosh’s comment to an audience member was the instigator for a discussion about rape jokes, the First Amendment, comedy, and feminism that is still roiling.

To recap: in July, the comedian was mid-set at the Laugh Factory during a joke about rape jokes when he heckled a female audience member who shouted out “Actually, rape jokes are never funny!” Tosh’s response was to encourage people to rape her. “Wouldn’t it be funny if that girl got raped by like, five guys right now? Like right now? What if a bunch of guys just raped her…”


Actually, Tosh found out, it wouldn’t be funny. A mass Twitter campaign against the comedian ended with a Tosh apology tour on Twitter: “all the out of context misquotes aside, i’d like to sincerely apologize.”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/12/17/daniel-tosh-two-broke-girls-and-the-oatmeal-the-year-of-the-rape-joke.html

[niyad]

1. k and r

[sheshe2]

3. niyad,

I want to thank you for rec'ing this post. I meant to do it yesterday, but when I came home from work I saw that it had sunk like a stone, again.

I just posted it on someones thread about CNN being appalled that their coverage of the Steubenville rape.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022547936

It has picked up a few more recs.

Because every single woman lives with these facts in her skin, in her veins. They shape the arc of our lives and the contour of our days.

Sad, isn't it!

she

[Cha]

2. It's just Insane.

thanks for the links, she

[Mojorabbit]

4. K and R nt

[niyad]

5. kick for this very important subject.

I wanted to say earlier, it is probably a very good thing I wasn't in the audience for that tosh creature's comments--would probably have been arrested. "all the out-of-context misquotes" aside?? weren't there VIDEOS of that disgraceful performance?

[sheshe2]

6. From what I have heard, niyad,

They were edited out. Then there was this. Sweet guy that Tosh. And the last sentence here:

But no matter how tame the alleged rape jokes in the new series from "Damn! Show" creators Waco O'Guin and Roger Black may have seemed when the episode was filmed, it's most likely a case of "too soon."

To soon???? Excuse me!

May god help us!

Comedian Daniel Tosh has already apologized for directing a rape joke toward a female audience member, but now he may be scrambling to make sure another set of rape jokes don't get out.

An anonymous source has told the website RumorFix that "most" of the upcoming animated

Comedy Central show, "Brickleberry," which lists Tosh as an executive producer, contains jokes about rape. The pilot episode is slated to premiere tonight at Comic-Con in San Diego, and the source says editors and producers are working against the clock to remove jokes that, in the wake of the ongoing controversy, seem indefensibly inappropriate.

“Everyone is freaking out, because most of the pilot is about rape,” the source said.

Ever since Tosh apologized via Twitter for offending the Laugh Factory audience member, the comedy community has been abuzz with talk about whether or not such jokes are ever appropriate. But no matter how tame the alleged rape jokes in the new series from "Damn! Show" creators Waco O'Guin and Roger Black may have seemed when the episode was filmed, it's most likely a case of "too soon."

There was a clip of the show at the link, it was brief, but repulsive. I was not about to bring it to this thread!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/13/daniel-tosh-rape-joke-brickleberry-pilot_n_1671536.html

[niyad]

7. "TOO SOON"???????? In a rational society that does not hate its women, it would NEVER occur

to anyone to make "comedy" about rape.

and people doubt we have a rape culture? what further proof could possibly be needed?

[Kalidurga]

8. Tosh has never been funny...

I think he appeals mainly to people with a twisted (but not in a good way) sense of humor. I hope they take his show off the air. I would boycott it, but I have only seen it once.