- Benefits when you’re cute: More people notice you, more people talk to you, people listen to you, you get jobs easier, you get dates easier, it’s easier to get into a relationship, people text you back faster, you get more followers, you get on those fuckyeah sites faster, you feel better about yourself
- Benefits when you’re ugly: You don’t get raped.
Really? This had over 5000 notes. Can someone tell me what is wrong here? Rape can happen to anyone at all! It can happen to people who are fat, skinny, average, rich, poor, black, white, different ethnicity etc. You could of easily said this different, why must you use the one thing that could tear anyone to pieces in minutes just by reading those words? Why must you use the one thing that can set someone back in recovery of such a traumatic event? Why must you use the one thing that can give someone flashbacks and anxiety attacks all because you wanted to to try to make a point about being ugly. Well you know what? Being ugly or pretty has NOTHING to do with rape. NOTHING AT ALL!
I am sick and tired of seeing and hearing people make fun of rape. What is there to fucking joke about?!?! Please answer that question for me! I’ve gotten messages from people before who have stated that when they joke about rape it’s not talking about raping people but saying something bad happened while playing video games for example. That is messed up! You can just easily say that incident was bad or something, RAPE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THOSE KINDS OF THINGS. Rape is forcing someone to have sex with you without there CONSENT. How can you joke about that? How can you take something so violent and cruel and turn it into something funny? Please don’t say it’s dark humor…it’s far from humor.
Can you imagine what someone who has been raped or sexually assaulted must feel like? I can tell you what it feels like: They feel scared, trapped, numb, shocked, dirty and disgusting, ashamed, suffocating, pain, ashamed and wishing they can tell someone and if they do sometimes a lot of people don’t believe them and call they liars or say “you asked for it”, “what were you wearing” “were you drinking” so they keep quiet or push forward with the case with a slim chance of winning. Wanna know why it’s so hard for them to speak out? It’s because of these jokes that people say each and every day. You people take rape lightly and forget the harmful affects that rape has one people. You say these jokes not knowing that someone around you has probably been raped or sexually assaulted and you just joke about it and they are forced to keep quiet to scared and ashamed to speak up because of your words and how society has forced the victims into silence.
Think about those affected by rape: Women, girls, men, and boys. All genders, ethnicity’s, and sexual orientation. Think about it, someones daughter, son, husband and wife, someones best friend. While you sit there and make your jokes not caring who hears and saying “oh they can’t take a joke” when someone speaks up. It’s not that they can’t take a joke, it’s that it kills someone on the inside, the thoughts, the memories the pain rush back to them as you sit there laughing at what was said. There’s a difference between humor that can be offensive and something that can cause someone serious pain on the inside and the outside and that’s not humor.
Do you still think it’s funny? I don’t and never will even if I wasn’t a victim. Why in the hell would anyone want to joke about something so traumatizing and so terrible. It’s time to end the silence, stop the jokes and stop the pain. Think of those who have been affected, it’s not funny to have to remember the night it happened and then to have people joke about what you went through that night.
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