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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 04:08 AM Original message |
Why Does Popular Culture Treat Prison Rape As a Joke? |
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Syrinx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 04:10 AM Response to Original message |
1. I don't know |
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DrDan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 04:14 AM Response to Original message |
2. same reason as so many favor capital punishment |
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Heidi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 04:17 AM Response to Original message |
3. Recommended. (nt) |
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Kitty Herder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 04:33 AM Response to Original message |
4. The same reason it treats rape of women as a joke. |
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Berry Cool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 10:31 AM Response to Reply #4 |
18. No, it goes beyond that. |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 11:28 AM Response to Reply #18 |
23. Kitty's excellent point need not be dismissed so quickly. The answer to your question may be |
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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 11:50 AM Response to Reply #4 |
27. Great post! nt |
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Mythsaje (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 04:37 AM Response to Original message |
5. You'd think, considering our awareness of the (IN)justice system, we liberals |
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comtec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 05:02 AM Response to Original message |
6. Hardly new |
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daedalus_dude (327 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 05:16 AM Response to Original message |
7. because most humor goes at the expense to someone else. |
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TexasProgresive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 05:47 AM Response to Original message |
8. I think that's the wrong question |
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Lerkfish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 06:57 AM Response to Reply #8 |
11. yup, you nailed it: why is prison rape tolerated and even encouraged by prison staff? |
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snot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 05:49 AM Response to Original message |
9. rape in any form or context is unacceptable. |
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Lerkfish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 06:56 AM Response to Original message |
10. good question: I've often wondered myself. I think its a mixture of homophobia, |
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DailyGrind51 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 06:57 AM Response to Original message |
12. "Rape", as the subject of humor, diminishes everyone! |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 06:57 AM Response to Original message |
13. Similar to why a man being kicked in the groin is always played as comical |
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Orsino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 06:59 AM Response to Original message |
14. Because humor inverts the perceived natural order. |
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undeterred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 07:28 AM Response to Original message |
15. They see it as furthur punishment to the criminal. |
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Solly Mack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 07:30 AM Response to Original message |
16. K&R |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 07:54 AM Response to Original message |
17. Recommend |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 10:50 AM Response to Original message |
19. Because by the time someone is in jail, the public figures that they are "bad people" |
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Trillo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 09:56 PM Response to Reply #19 |
34. I think this is a classic Extrovert versus Introvert issue. |
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DeadEyeDyck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 10:52 AM Response to Original message |
20. Isn't it simply the nature of satire? n/t |
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Pamela Troy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 11:30 AM Response to Reply #20 |
24. Not good satire. "Satire" aimed at people who are weaker |
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ensho (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 10:56 AM Response to Original message |
21. its men that treat it like a joke - the women don't |
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moggie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 11:23 AM Response to Original message |
22. And yet, imagine if it were codified! |
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demwing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 11:37 AM Response to Original message |
25. Just speculation but... |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 11:47 AM Response to Reply #25 |
26. interesting. but then i suspect women fear rape adn dont joke about it either |
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demwing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 12:04 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. Im not trying to imply that women fear rape any less |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 12:06 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. i know you weren't. and good point |
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dem629 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 12:24 PM Response to Original message |
30. And they're usually bad jokes. At least make it funny. |
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Iggo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 12:25 PM Response to Original message |
31. Pop Culture is LCD. |
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surrealAmerican (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 12:25 PM Response to Original message |
32. It's all part of the "superhero culture" we live in. |
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dem629 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-17-09 12:27 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. LOL |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-18-09 12:08 AM Response to Original message |
35. For the same reason people joke around about rape in general. |
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