http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFQkwW-oPZE (start at 1:40)

Assuming the statement that young women have some power over young men in some ways (which I guess is perhaps possible? I’m not going to weigh in on that but just assume it for the sake of argument), this argument is still not logical. Because women do not have power over men when it comes to rape. Men are the perpetrators of rape in the vast majority of rapes, and women are the victims of rape in the vast majority of rapes. Men joking about this specific topic are joking about something that they still have the power in, namely, that they are very unlikely to ever experience rape in relation to the likelihood that any given woman will experience rape. Here is an example using people who have differences in privilege, which may or may not hold as an analogy: a het woman and a gay man would each have different privilege, because the het woman has heterosexual privilege and the gay man has male privilege. The woman could joke about many things, but she could not justify joking about gay men being the victims of gay-bashing to this gay man by saying that he has power over her because of his male privilege. Het people are the perpetrators of gay-bashing in the vast majority of gay-bashing, and gay people are the victims of gay-bashing in the vast majority of gay-bashing. Het women joking about this specific topic are joking about something that they are privileged in, namely, that they are very unlikely to ever experience gay-bashing in relation to the likelihood that any given gay person will experience gay-bashing.

So there you go: men joking about rape does not fall under the humor category of “making fun of those with power” (wow, I can’t believe I actually had to type that). Unless, of course, you think that women have power over men when it comes to sex because men want to have sex with women and women can say no to having sex with men. Then the argument makes sense in fuckneck rape-apologist land, but not in the logical world where double standards are bullshit.

“Remember when the dudes break into the house, and she pretends to be scared that they’ll rape her, and then she’s SO UPSET when they don’t do it? Ha ha, because she’s ugly! And because women… want to be raped… because… um… it’s a compliment?”

RAAAAAGE. That was the first REALLY rape-y and anti-woman kind of joke I noticed on Family Guy. I’ve always disliked Family Guy but now it is dead to me. Dead.

Remember when the dudes break into the house, and she pretends to be scared that they’ll rape her, and then she’s SO UPSET when they don’t do it? Ha ha, because she’s ugly! And because women… want to be raped… because… um… it’s a compliment?

Yeah, I remember really laughing at Peter’s “obliviousness” during that scene in which he was not present and did not deliver any lines.