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By: Mama Penguino

Mama Penguino — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:13:15 +0000

I would also point out that wherever you are, there’s a pretty good chance someone in the crowd is a rape survivor and using the word “rape” in jest is like a knife in the stomach.

By: lawyergay

lawyergay — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:18:51 +0000

Bookish: Have you ever run across this book: http://www.amazon.com/Fashionable-Nonsense-Postmodern-Intellectuals-Science/dp/0312195451.

I hadn’t heard of it until I read the Wikipedia write-up on Kristeva.

God, how I imbibed (and dispensed) such nonsense as a young(er) man!

By: BookishLookish

BookishLookish — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:37:32 +0000

LG: Oh, the eighties were fun.

Heidegger, “language speaks us.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_vYz4nQUcs&feature=related

By: lawyergay

lawyergay — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:25:21 +0000

When I was in college, there was a locution making the rounds that went as follows: “X rapes me.” Variations such as “I was raped by X,” or “That’s rapish” were not uncommon.

X was usually a work of art or literature or criticism infamous for its phallocentricity and perpetuation of heteronormative power structures. More often than not, Julia Kristeva either had or would soon discourse on X in a controversial and thought-provoking article.

Being callow and thinking we were way funnier than we were, my boyfriend and I soon began using this locution in other ways, e.g., “My Shakespeare seminar got moved to 8:45 on Friday morning; that rapes me.” Or “I haven’t even started researching my senior essay; I’m totally raped!” Or “Pass the rape nuts.”

We were sophomores.

By: ChillbearLatrigue

ChillbearLatrigue — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:08:58 +0000

@Registered: I’m not sure if I am off the mark here, but I think that one of the reasons that prison rape is assumed to be such an effective threat on television shows is that you generally have tough guy male cops interviewing tough guy male suspects. Of course, in this testosteron fueled setting, there is nothing more emasculating and tragic than forced sodomy, so the tough guy suspect gets a little twinge of fear in his eyes and starts to try to cut deals left and right.

It doesn’t work that way in real life. The suspects generally know more about prison life than cops. They’ve calculated the risks and know what prison is all about. The problem is that they usually think that they can lie their way out of going there. That is where real interviewing skills come in. I’ve never told anyone that they would be raped in prison. I’m a mediocre interviewer, but I’ve never seen a really good one use it either. So, I guess that’s a tip for you Wordsmokers. If you’re ever being interviewed and the interrogator brings up prison rape, then you know you are dealing with an amateur and you should just bullshit him/her or lawyer up. If he or she lights up a cigarette and offer you one and starts talking to you about sports, dummy up.

As far as the word “rape” or the concept of rape being used frivolously, I have to agree with the infallible wisdom of the Wordsmoker collective. It is not okay.

By: Registered

Registered — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:15:43 +0000

Mediahoho: Prison rape is a most disgusting thing – almost on a par with the Rockefeller mandatory drug sentences – and it is a shame on our society, our humanity, -let’s be clear – us that we let this happen. We know it happens. We do nothing (I speak for myself) to ensure that a prisoner is given this most basic human right, not to be raped.

There were times when I used to watch L&O when the good cops would threaten the suspect with what he could expect in jail. If the cop had made the same threat to a woman, it would not be acceptable to anyone who thinks. Why should a man being raped be acceptable? Yet it seems it is. It is not. It is so not. It is the dirty little corner of the penal system, crowded with teeming cockroaches that would horrify us all.

And yet, there is a word for this on Fark. Pound me in the ass prison. PMITA. It’s the routine recommendation for some criminal they don’t like. There are lots of criminals I don’t like, but this is not what I wish for them. And, strangely, it seems the straight male posters are the ones wishing this fate on another man. Weird.

By: mediahohoho

mediahohoho — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:09:54 +0000

HG: It is a singular act, second only to murder in the imposition of will on another human being and the violation of human dignity. Which is why you never see me making prison rape jokes, even about people I despise.

By: helmangiraffe

helmangiraffe — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:27:09 +0000

Mediahoho: I agree with you completely. I cringe even when people (men) talk about “raping the environment.”

By: Belltolls

Belltolls — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:14:41 +0000

Wholesale fear of black rape of white women gained prominence in Post-Reconstruction America and came to fruition among lower class whites in the early part of the Twentieth century when it became used as a justification for lynching — that powerful tool of keeping control of the “freed” black population. Well, that and murder and poll taxes and like and stuff. A charming little touchstone.

By: Strawberry Shortcake

Strawberry Shortcake — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:09:57 +0000

I would like to see Glen Beck corn holed yes I would.

Virus- I think I see a cloud bunny, oh no wait it is just tit-sucking