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UFC, FOX Pressured To Drop Quinton “Rampage” Jackson From Fight Over His YouTube Video About Attempted Rape

Jessica WakemanJanuary 24, 2013 //
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On January 26, FOX is set to air an Ultimate Fighting Championship fight with MMA fighter Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, who last April posted a video on the YouTube channel for FilmOn in which he jokingly attempted to rape a woman. He in the video, he advises viewers to use choloroform to “help her relax” and suggests purchasing zip ties. Also in the video, Jackson says he hopes the woman he attempts to rape “got low self-esteem.” A clip from the video shows Jackson dressed in all black, sneaking up behind a woman with her back turned while she’s opening her car door. Worst of all, this video is entitled “How To Pick Up A Gurl … Fast.”

Let me remind you again: FOX and UFC want to put this guy on TV.

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Comedian Jamie Kilstein Tells A Funny Rape Joke

Jessica WakemanDecember 12, 2012 //
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  • Want to know how to tell a funny rape joke? Comedian Jamie Kilstein shows you how it’s done. [Feministing]
  • Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin is suing to restore women’s access to the RU-486 abortion pill. Currently women are required to visit a doctor THREE SEPARATE TIMES before being dispensed the abortion pill. All of our bosses would be so on board with us taking time off for three different doctors’ appointments, right? [Think Progress]
  • Mormon feminists  have people in an uproar after encouraging Mormon women to wear pants to church. [Jezebel]
  • Blogger Jessica Luther on tennis player Caroline Wozniacki’s racist mimicry of Serena Williams at a match this weekend. [scATX] Keep reading »

WWE Announcer Cracks A Kobe Bryant Rape Joke

Jessica WakemanJuly 31, 2012 //
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  • On “Monday Night Raw” last night, WWE announcer Abraham Washington cracked a rape joke about a wrestler, saying the guy was “like Kobe Bryant at a hotel in Colorado … he’s unstoppable.” WWE issued an immediate apology. (In 2003, Bryant was accused of raping a 19-year-old hotel worker; prosecution dropped the charges days before the trial against him was set to begin. Bryant had maintained the two had consensual sex.) [TMZ]
  • Robert Pattinson has already moved out — and now he Kristen Stewart are going to battle for custody over their dog, Bear. Also, R-Patz wants to have a “man-to-man” talk with Rupert Sanders, the “Snow White and the Huntsman” director with whom Kristen cheated. [The Sun UK, Celebrity Cafe]
  • Lana Del Rey covered Nirvana’s “Heart-Shaped Box” at a concert in Australia, prompting Courtney Love to tweet at Lana, “you do know that song is about my vagina, right?” Ooooookay, Court. [PopCrush]
  • While filming a sex scene for “The Canyons” in which she had to go topless, Lindsay Lohan asked the male crew members to strip down to their boxers. [TMZ] Keep reading »

The Soapbox: The Thing That Is Funny About Rape

Jennifer BaumgardnerJuly 30, 2012 //
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Wouldn’t it be funny if the boys that photographed themselves assaulting Savannah Dietrich got raped right now? Also, that priest, Monsignor Lynn, who is going to serve three to six years for failing to investigate sex abuse claims against priests — wouldn’t it be hilarious if he were raped in prison? And Jerry Sandusky? Just picture him in the showers with a bunch of bigger guys! Are you laughing? No? Well, that’s because imagining someone getting raped is about as humorous as imagining someone stepping on a landmine or getting car-jacked. It’s terrifying and no one deserves it.

But using rape in a joke is another story. A couple of years ago, I taught a writing course at The New School called Humor and Controversy. The premise was that humor artists like Margaret Cho, Chris Rock, and Sarah Silverman speak with more insight and honesty about race, sexuality, reproductive rights, gender, religion, and class than most politicians, which is why comedy is important. Students were encouraged to use wit and self-deprecation to shed light on thorny issues. One prompt was to write an essay entitled “My Rape Fantasy.” Keep reading »

Louis C.K. Didn’t Defend Daniel Tosh’s Rape Joke After All

Jessica WakemanJuly 17, 2012 //
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  • Comedian Louis C.K. hit up “The Daily Show” last night and addressed his tweet from last week that seemed to be in support of Daniel Tosh’s rape joke. C.K. said he was in Vermont on vacation and not following the controversy raging on the Internet; he sats innocently watched an episode of “Tosh.0″ and was compelled to tweet at Tosh that he liked his show. Then when he got back from vacation, he realized that he was getting called a “rape apologist” and had no idea what was going on. [The Daily Show] Keep reading »

Rape Jokes: I Can’t Believe You Clapped For That

Jessica WakemanJuly 16, 2012 //
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Louis C.K. just got 100 percent lamer, in my opinion. I just watched this rape joke reel put together by the feminist org, the Women’s Media Center, to show that Daniel Tosh’s not-funny rape joke last week was not an abheration to comedy. (You can read the whole backstory here.) Tosh has made plenty of other not-funny rape jokes in the past and both Dave Chapelle and Louis C.K. — who came to Tosh’s defense on Twitter — have wasted some precious comedy capital as well. As the WMC puts it, these are all rape jokes that comedians make for cheap laughs. They do nothing to make a statement about our culture. I hope that one day Louis’ daughters grow up and ask him, “Daddy, why were you making jokes about rape?” (Daniel Tosh, you can kindly not procreate, kthx.) [Women's Media Center] (Put your headphones on at work, because the audio is NSFW.)

[Personally, I think most of these jokes are being presented out of context. Some of them -- having seen them in full context -- are actually "good" rape jokes in my opinion, while others are cheap. Kind of hard to judge their quality when taken out of context though. Or, as George Carlin's voice references at the end, out of their full construct. -- Editor]

The Soapbox: Daniel Tosh Apologizes For Rape Comment, But Is Still A Lazy, Sexist Jerk

Julie GersteinJuly 11, 2012 //
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Over the weekend, a blogger on “Cookies For Breakfast” wrote about a friend’s experience at a Daniel Tosh comedy show — highlighting how the comedian had made several rape jokes — and even encouraged the audience to rape the woman for speaking out against his offensive rape commentary.

According to the blog post, the woman in question was offended by Tosh’s rape jokes, and yelled out, “Actually, rape jokes aren’t funny!” In response, Tosh said, “Wouldn’t it be funny if that girl got raped by, like, five guys right now? Like right now? What if a bunch of guys just raped her?” Keep reading »

Daniel Tosh Issues Half-Assed Twitter Apology For Rape Jokes

Jessica WakemanJuly 11, 2012 //
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  • Daniel Tosh apologized yesterday for suggesting onstage Friday night that it would be funny if a female audience was raped by five dudes — although it was a pretty meh apology, given it was just tweeting “all of the out of context misquotes aside, I’d like to sincerely apologize.” Tosh had told a rape joke while performing onstage and a woman in the audience of the Laugh Factory had yelled out that rape jokes weren’t funny. He then said, “Wouldn’t it be funny if that girl got raped by like, five guys right now? Like right now? What if a bunch of guys just raped her…” Don’t try to pass that off as mere heckler handling, Tosh. There were a million other ways to better handle that situation that doesn’t involve threats of sexualized violence.  [E! Online]
  • Lady Gaga’s social networking site Little Monsters has finally launched. [PopCrush]
  • Kate Spade is launching a lower-priced line, which will allegedly be called Saturday. Goodbye, rest of my paychecks for all of eternity. [Racked]
  • Vanessa Paradis is devastated over Johnny Depp’s cheating on her with Amber Heard. Well, duh. [Stupid Celebrities]  Keep reading »

Daniel Tosh Suggests Audience Rape Woman Who Complains About Rape Jokes

Jessica WakemanJuly 10, 2012 //
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  • “Tosh 2.0″ host and comedian Daniel Tosh suggested an audience rape a woman who complained about rape jokes, asking “Wouldn’t it be funny if that girl got raped by, like, five guys right now? Like right now? What if a bunch of guys just raped her?” I just can’t even with this one. [Cookies For Breakfast]
  • Oh, but there’s more fuckery! Radio personality Kidd Kraddick said on Monday morning that he thinks women lie about being roofied, blabbing about the “new epidemic that’s sweeping America: It’s the ‘Women who say they’ve been roofied’ epidemic.’ … A lot of times women get really drunk and are like ‘Ah! I got roofied.’” [Dallas Observer]
  • Anti-Mitt Romney election ads from Planned Parenthood, airing in swing states, seem to be swaying women against him. [Huffington Post] Keep reading »

Protest Today Against Facebook’s Rape Jokes

Jessica WakemanNovember 2, 2011 //
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There’s a lot of dodginess on Facebook (status “updates” from your sister’s fetus, hello) but there’s one thing we cannot tacitly approve by ignoring — rape jokes such as:

  • “Kicking Sluts in the Vagina”
  • “Whats 10 inches and gets girls to have sex with me? my knife” 
  • “I know a silly little bitch that needs a good slap”
  • “We’re gonna have sex tonight” “Why?” “Because im stronger than you are”

Yes, some immature, insensitive people post rape jokes or create pages with themes about raping, stabbing, or threatening their girlfriends and moms.  That hate speech is bad enough, but alas, you are allowed under the First Amendment to be a douchebag.

The real question is, though, why is Facebook permitting jokes about sexual violence? Keep reading »

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