If Jeremy had raped Gloria instead of the other way around...
And then she decided she liked it afterwards, and they got married, do you think it would piss people off?
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Obviously it would, rape is a taboo subject at the best of times, with good reason.
But, this was a comedy playing on the fact that we men are supposedly just penises with bodies attached, we are horny devils who think about sex every 6 seconds. If someone were to rape a man then it would either have to be by another man, or it'd have to be violent, or it'd have to include the insertion of toy trainset carriages in the guys arse otherwise a good proportion of men would not consider it rape. They'd call it "magical spontaneous-sex with a stranger" instead.
The subject matter is no laughing matter, despite my risqué attempt at humour above, but throughout the animal kingdom males are pretty much just horny hunters, females do everything that prolongs a specific race or species, the male simply acts as the first line of physical defence and provides sperm when needed.
The reason the vast, VAST majority of rapes commited are man-on-woman is nothing to do with guys being physically stronger, or an assertion of power (as some may have you believe, yeah we all want to be the president), or "just because we can", it's because sex is primal with males, to spread our genes far and wide and try to repopulate Earth with our, and only our, offspring. It's nature and - horrendous as this sounds - rape is part of nature.
What makes humans unlike animals is that "natural" yet immoral or bestial acts like rape, murder, theft, etc are frowned upon with obviously good reason, what we like to call 'civility', but that doesn't stop some heinous monsters thinking they are above the law.
Sorry about the rant... I suppose to cut a long natter short I could have just said "rape doesn't happen to dudes as often as it does to women, so it's ok to laugh about it!"
Odd species we are, very odd...
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"They'd call it "magical spontaneous-sex with a stranger" instead."
Just this - I personally have a reason to believe that even IF it happened in that way, as in, the perpetrator was a woman and a victim a man, even if it wasn't done with objects etc and whatnot, I imagine the act itself would still be physically painful and emotionally traumatizing at least to a degree, and a man in question would not JUST consider it "spontaneous unwanted sex" and move on.
Besides, what if he got an STD from it?
By the way ladies and gentlemen, is what RAF 33 here said ACTUALLY true? Does it have merits to it?
And I say again - if rape and sexual assault in traditional circumstances with male perpetrators is considered undeniably terrible, why is it "so different" then if a perpetrator is female and even if there are some differences perhaps, is it still not in its own category rather bad still? Besides law and obvious morals attached.
And Mr 33 - are you not personally afraid of receiving backlash for such a post, bearing in mind the times we live in?
I've had moments by the way when I attempted to discuss the topic from such angle and I got in trouble for it but also rather depressed and put off in the process. And I didn't find it in me at the time to like you know defend myself in here too.
But who or even what stance is RIGHT here? (Yeah, haha, I hear ya - "its always bad and wrong", mmkay, cheers.)
"Odd species we are, very odd..."
Yeah, that too, but also, we are very divided but then some of us are naive, stupid etc others are more clever and enlightened too.
The point about me having received backlash at the time was that I have also wondered about this from that point of view but I was told angrily by certain folks about how bad it is in any case etc with some folks being rather put off by the fact that I felt like discussing it and whilst being still against it, wondered, for a myriad of reasons, how bad it is in comparison to "traditional" and already well known examples as such.
Also funny how, but it seems like this area is the only topic with such controversy.
Granted, yeah, we do sometimes talk about male and female say wrong doers and if they are to be treated same or differently. And films also have this one trope known as a beautiful female villain trope which is also popular or at least existent in pop culture and movies especially.
But if say we talked about murder or even beatings and say acts of theft it would not cause as much controversy. But add this sexual abuse and sexual violence/violation, the r word etc angle, and people debate in many say forums and posts, especially if a film happens to be popular.
And this matter isn't even looked at say "good guys" and "bad guys" (OK even if "villains" happen to be female also) type of dichotomy and dynamic or good versus evil. Even though in many films the male perps often ARE portrayed as outright VILLAINS. OK I will move on and stop talking and especially thinking too much.
And in MY case on the internet, and also for a variety of other reasons, with me being a naive and sensitive folk myself, I just fell under the proverbial hot handle but I am alright and I don't blame anyone, even though I apologize myself. )