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Rape Is Funny
In the American entertainment world, prison rape is an amusing topic and there are some wonderful prison-rape jokes fun for the whole family.
Hey, there’s Chris Rock on cable making a hilarious prison-rape joke in his monologue. Good one, Chris!
Or Sandra Bullock in Miss Congeniality(Donald Petrie, 2000) laughing it up at the end that the villainess, Candice Bergen, is going find her self getting raped in prison. Ha, ha, ha.
Ohhh rape: Rape is so funny! And you can find great prison-rape lines easily perusing comedies; we do need to lighten up sometimes and find relief from war. Wait, oh great, that damn Dave Lindorff just broke a piece on Child Rape and Sodomy by Afghan Security Forces. Downer Dave.
Actually, as any decent person knows, rape is tragic. From David Kaiser, Lovisa Stannow in the New York Review of Books:
Prisoner rape is one of this country’s most widespread human rights problems, and arguably its most neglected. Frustratingly, heartbreakingly—but also hopefully—if only we had the political will, we could almost completely eliminate it.
In the second part of this essay we will discuss the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission’s report, which analyzes the dynamics and consequences of prisoner rape, shows how sexual abuse can be and in many cases already is being prevented in detention facilities across the country, and proposes standards for its prevention, detection, and response. Those standards are now with US Attorney General Eric Holder, who by law has until June 23, 2010, to review them before issuing them formally, following which they will become nationally binding. We will discuss the attorney general’s troubling review process, the opposition of some corrections officials to the commission’s standards, and why some important corrections leaders are so resistant to change.
In the meantime, the next time you hear a prison-rape joke, make a note: Not so funny.
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Posted by Yanira Farray on Mar 6 2010, With 0 Reads, Filed under Politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
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Well said. The problem with Hollywood is the massive amounts of people in the entertainment field that are so dysfunctional, and are in need of proffessional help. They don’t want to be this way, but instead of getting help, they seem to think, well let’s covert the audience into thinking dysfunctional like them.
HAVING BEEN RAPED OVER 22 YEARS AGO, I SEE NO HUMOR IN IT AND ALL THOSE PEOPLE THAT SAY SHE WAS “LOOKING FOR IT”? I WAS HOME ALONE W/MY 1 YEAR OLD DUAGHTER SLEEPING NEXT TO ME…. NO I WASNT “LOOKING FOR IT” BUT I GOT IT… WHEN I TOLD MY FAMILY, I WAS LAUGHED AT AND TOLD I WAS A LIAR.. AND AT THAT TIME VICTIMS WERE TREATED AS THE BAD ONES… I GOT HIM BACK,BUT I AM NOT PROUD OF THAT…. RAPE IS NO LAUGHING MATTER, AND IT NEVER WILL BE… ITS A QUESTUON OF CONTROL,PLAIN AND SIMPLE.
Rape is never funny. As a MST survivor, I am appalled that the mindset of “she asked for it” still exists. Secondly, in a recent article in the Air Force Times, an article discussed what is available to the defense when a rapist is brought to trial. The victim’s sexual history, mental status, financial status and performance reports are available for the criminal to twist and turn to use in his favor. Since when did the victim’s past matter? Oh wait that doesn’t happen anymore. What was I thinking….
There are so many movies where rape is mentioned as the punchline. I only listed two examples, but it was stunning.