(subject line taken from a comment by snobographer on a positive review of a film about dudes who can't stand it when their girlfriends are smarter than they are.)
The sad thing, of course, is that I can see how this might be taken as a joke by some people. A funny one, even. I actually know people who would laugh at it, no further thought needed, and if that's not fucked in the head, I don't know what is.
I know people who would, too. there's the "she deserves it!" camp, the "bitch is too 'stupid' to realize it's rape if it is even rape, so who cares?" camp... I wish I didn't know people who've expressed those types of sentiments to my face, but there you go. and I wish I could say they didn't have a face after saying that to me, but violence is wrong and sometimes also a felony, so I have to restrict myself to scathing remarks. I totally sympathize with blackcurrant's hypothetical Read and Type blogger, because that's how I often feel! but with fewer laughs on my part.
I suppose they call it rape culture for a reason, don't they?
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... the guy who actually cried because I corrected him on the nutritional content of peanut butter.
Date: 2009-05-21 03:36 pm (UTC)The sad thing, of course, is that I can see how this might be taken as a joke by some people. A funny one, even. I actually know people who would laugh at it, no further thought needed, and if that's not fucked in the head, I don't know what is.
I know people who would, too. there's the "she deserves it!" camp, the "bitch is too 'stupid' to realize it's rape if it is even rape, so who cares?" camp... I wish I didn't know people who've expressed those types of sentiments to my face, but there you go. and I wish I could say they didn't have a face after saying that to me, but violence is wrong and sometimes also a felony, so I have to restrict myself to scathing remarks. I totally sympathize with blackcurrant's hypothetical Read and Type blogger, because that's how I often feel! but with fewer laughs on my part.
I suppose they call it rape culture for a reason, don't they?
yeeeeaaah.