Sunday, 20 July 2014

Rape and Rape 'humour' *trigger warning to all survivors*

                                This post greeted me today on facebook, from a page called Godzilla Memes. Hardly a                                  page you'd expect this post to appear on



So let me be clear as to what rape means, it means someone seeking to take power and control from another person forces sexual acts upon them. They do this by violence of physical force, violence of emotional manipulation, violence of threat to a loved one or loved pet, by beating down the idea that the victim has any right to their own body. Rape is not about sex. Let that be understood.
Sex is about mutual fun between two or more consenting parties. Rape is about power and control of the rapist, the rapist taking all dignity, all respect, all consent away from the victim.

What post such as this one, and all rape humour, do is they reinforce the rapists version of rape, that as their right to take all and more from their victims. The adult victims and child victims of rape deserve better from all of us. They deserve for posts such as this to be reviled to be held up for the sickening rape excuses they are. Anyone who supports such posts or who does as fb user 'Mathew Tully' says "Calm Down" to anyone who speaks against this ignorant, dangerous, rape apologist rubbish, is supporting every rapist there has ever been and ever will be, yes this includes rapists of children.

For rape survivors when this type of humour is about it tells us that our rapist was right, it reinforces the message that we did something to deserve it, that in truth our rape was just fun, that we are just being emotional and unreasonable ... Until you have been raped you have no right to do anything other than support rape victims and survivors. End of discussion!