Quick Hit: Rape Humor and Men

I thought this post was worth sharing, as it makes an attempt to specifically address those men who are genuinely against rape and genuinely understand that it is a problem, but don’t see the harm in rape humor. The points the author brings up are some I had never heard before, but make something I was already worried about all the more dire. The effects of rape humor feel far more pressing if 1 in 20 men will admit to rape in an anonymous survey; the prospect of accidentally reaffirming the actions of a rapist just by laughing at, or not speaking out against, rape humor makes me uneasy, to put it lightly. Hopefully even those genuinely good guys can see the harm when confronted with this sort of concise evidence.

http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2011/03/feminism-101-helpful-hints-for-dudes.html

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