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Alexa ([info]alexa) wrote in [info]unfunny_fandom,
Jerry has made a post addressing the issue. It's certainly better than some of the slimy crap Mike has been throwing up on twitter.

A couple things, though: he doesn't seem to get that what a lot of people are objecting to isn't necessarily the original comic. Many people didn't read the comic as "pro-rape", and understood that the punchline hinged on the idea that rape was bad. But that absolutely does not excuse the subsequent responses to criticism (making a "TEAM DICKWOLVES" t-shirt, generally being taunting and dismissive, and denying that they might have done anything to warrant the backlash).

Also, he still seems to be tacitly disagreeing that rape culture really exists. Statements like "The only people who are pro-rape are rapists."... it's not exactly wrong, but it minimizes the issue. Yes, rapists must be held personally responsible for their crimes. But we live in a culture where something like one in three women and one in thirty men will experience rape or sexual assault. These aren't rare, isolated incidents. It's a fucking epidemic. Ignoring that the attitudes of rapists (toward sex, toward women, toward people in general) are fostered by a larger cultural issue is reductive and unhelpful.


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