What Happens Next: A Gallimaufry

melancholic romantic comic cynic. bi & genderqueer. fantasy writer. sysrae on ao3.

plain-flavoured-english asked: Bless you for the ironic sexism post. I hate how 'irony' is used to excuse rape jokes now: basically guys get up on stage and talk about how girls are worthless sluts who ask to be raped ('haha i’m so edgy lol') and the rapists in the audience are like 'ikr? finally someone said it' while the non-rapist men in the audience go 'omg that’s so funny because who would actually SAY something like that?' And the women in the audience are like, 'well, based on our experience, THE POLICE FUCKING WOULD'.

Ugh, yeah. I’m thinking here not just of the Daniel Tosh incident, but a related case where a guy got up at an open mic comedy session that was meant especially for audience members - a way for them to tell funny stories about their own lives - and basically confessed to raping a woman. Only, the thing was, he didn’t actually realise that’s what he’d done - he thought it was hilarious - it was clearly a well-practised story - and it wasn’t until he failed to get a laugh and various people came up to him and said, “What you did was rape” that he even appeared to consider his behaviour that way.

And this is one of the consequences of rape jokes: to teach young men that coercing an unenthusiastic partner or failing to gain consent isn’t really rape, but something they can just do for laughs, then brag about it later. 

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    I read the thing but I’m honestly too scared to listen to the monologue, like holy SHIT.
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