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- http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2011/02/offended-is-worst-thing-to-be.html (via tea-and-catastrophe)
…Someone who defends rape jokes, which are the the primary means by which rape is normalized and its gravity diminished to make rape acceptable—so acceptable, in fact, that 1 in 6 women and 1 in 33 men will be victimized by sexual violence at least once in their lifetimes, the vast majority of whom will never see justice for those crimes against them—is indeed a rape apologist.
To defend a rape joke that serves the rape culture, at which a rapist is more likely to laugh than a survivor, at which a rapist can laugh at all, is to defend what that joke exists in service to, intentionally or not.
But somehow, it’s still worse to be offended than to offend anti-rape advocates and trigger survivors.
”- http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2011/02/offended-is-worst-thing-to-be.html (via tea-and-catastrophe)