In the U.S. every year, 207,754 people are raped, so there are also a whole bunch of people committing those rapes. What that means is that any comic who regularly performs in front of an audience is likely to spend at least some time telling jokes to someone who’s raped someone. And when he hears a joke like Tosh’s, that starts with “How can a rape joke not be funny?!” and goes on to say that a woman who interrupts him deserves to be raped –- or a joke like Morril’s (“My ex-girlfriend never made me wear a condom… She was on the pill: Ambien!”) –- he’s probably going to feel pretty comfortable in that room.
When he hears the laughs in response to Morril’s joke, he’s not liable to feel shame about the night the girl from the bar passed out when he got her upstairs; he’s probably going to feel like he’s surrounded by a bunch of people who agree that what he did wasn’t really a big deal. He’s going to be reassured that he’s not in a society that takes it seriously.
When he hears the laughs in response to Morril’s joke, he’s not liable to feel shame about the night the girl from the bar passed out when he got her upstairs; he’s probably going to feel like he’s surrounded by a bunch of people who agree that what he did wasn’t really a big deal. He’s going to be reassured that he’s not in a society that takes it seriously.
— What Do Rapists Think About Rape Jokes? | xoJane (via brute-reason)
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Posted June 12, 2013 at 11:04am in comics thoughtful firstworldproblems tosh rape women's rights facts
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![apoplecticskeptic:
nbcnews:
After vote allowing gay kids to become Boy Scouts, some families call it quits
The father of a Cub Scout sat his son on his lap late last week and told him news that tore up both their hearts: The family was leaving the Boy Scouts.
Ok, this father says :
“It was a big disappointment. [My son] cried for about 10 minutes because I told him that Boy Scouts were not honoring their own law. They say it — ‘On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law; to help other people at all times; to keep [myself] physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight.’”
So, to be clear… the Boy Scouts adapt and join the 21st century by recognizing that homosexuals are people just like everyone else and you simply must remove yourself from its ranks, and publicly… but the church that teaches you this nonsense can rest safe knowing your faithful allegiance to their organization is rock solid even following the acknowledged rape of children.
Got it.
Thanks for the taking the “moral” high ground, asshole parent.
And for those of us that hung up our Eagles? We fly strong.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/0ddfbed18ac71b86d099a7a7374a51ee/tumblr_mno7flXv801qm4we9o1_500.jpg)
