Surfing the Rape Wave: What Tosh Teaches About Humor, Power and Privilege.
Definition regression analysis. There Was An Awkward, Rape-Insinuating Joke At This Official Xbox One Event. Microsoft's keynote speech at E3 on Monday had it all.
At the video game expo in Los Angeles, Microsoft gave gamers the Xbox One's release date (November), its price ($499), a new "Metal Gear Solid" and... a casual rape joke? Women_dev Info Page. Cover Stories Behavior: When Is It RAPE? Be careful of strangers and hurry home, says a mother to her daughter, knowing that the world is a frightful place but not wishing to swaddle a child in fear.
Girls grow up scarred by caution and enter adulthood eager to shake free of their parents' worst nightmares. They still know to be wary of strangers. What they don't know is whether they have more to fear from their friends. Most women who get raped are raped by people they already know -- like the boy in biology class, or the guy in the office down the hall, or their friend's brother. The familiarity is enough to make them let down their guard, sometimes even enough to make them wonder afterward whether they were "really raped.
" So the phrase "acquaintance rape" was coined to describe the rest, all the cases of forced sex between people who already knew each other, however casually. Black comedy. A black comedy (dark comedy) is a comic work that employs black humor, which, in its most basic definition, is humor that makes light of otherwise serious subject matter.[1] Black humor corresponds to the earlier concept of gallows humor.[2][3][4][5][6] History and etymology[edit] Irony Origin of the term[edit] Breton coined the term for his book Anthology of Black Humor (Anthologie de l'humour noir), in which he credited Jonathan Swift as the originator of black humor and gallows humor, and included excerpts from 45 other writers.
Breton included both examples in which the wit arises from a victim, with which the audience empathizes, as is more typical in the tradition of gallows humor, and examples in which the comedy is used to mock the victim, whose suffering is trivialized, and leads to sympathizing with the victimizer, as is the case with Sade.
Magazines - Feminist Majority Foundation. General Interest Ms.
Magazine This legendary feminist magazine, co-founded by Gloria Steinem in 1972, continues to produce hard-hitting investigative reports and in-depth feminist analysis of national and global issues. It also includes book reviews, commentary from prominent women, coverage of feminist events, and the famous "no comment" section. Ms. was rated by Good magazine one of the top 50 magazines in the United States and is widely regarded as an influential thought leader and valuable tool for feminist activists, leaders, and teachers.
Raw Scenes, Unspeakable Violations. Li Xinmo was chewing a razor blade.
Yan Yinhong was simulating being raped by a policeman. Fenni was keening, a cloth with bloodlike stains wrapped around her eyes, while Lan Jiny was crouched on the floor, methodically popping 108 red balloons — a figure that approaches ’s gender imbalance of 118 males to 100 females — then drawing baby boys’ penises in celebratory gold on old bedclothes from a Beijing birthing hospital, a reference to the skewed boy-girl gender ratio in China from sex-selective abortion and female infanticide. Ms. Lan allowed a final balloon to be a girl, a token female in a male-controlled world, she said. It was the second annual “Bald Girls” feminist art show, this time called “Bald Girls: A Door.” “The heaviness comes from our lives, from the experiences that so many women have buried deep in their hearts. Patton Oswalt on “prodigalsam” plagiarism flap: “There’s no wiggle room there”
Patton Oswalt has written a lengthy post for his blog about, among other topics, @prodigalsam, the now-offline Twitter user who rose to online fame by copying the structure and substance of famous Twitter users’ jokes.
(For his part, Sammy Rhodes, the University of South Carolina campus minister behind @prodigalsam, told Salon he saw his tweets as “a riff [...] not a rip-off.”) Oswalt believes that Rhodes and other plagiarists whom he’s confronted in the past benefit from a cultural attitude that comedians are somehow less special or artistically ambitious than other culture industry professionals: Most people are not funny. Doesn’t mean they’re bad people, or dumb, or unperceptive or even uncreative. Can a show about murdering women actually be feminist? The endless parade of serial-killer dramas on TV today raises an uncomfortable question: What does it mean that we as a society seem to find violence against women endlessly entertaining?
”The Fall,” a BBC2 series now streaming on Netflix, forces us to take a hard look at ourselves as viewers and what we like — and makes the powerful point that killers who target women aren’t as deep or interesting as other shows make them seem. At first glance, the show might look like “Law & Order: SVU,” or pretty much any murder series of the last decade. A man, a grief counselor, married with two adorable kids, cannot control his urges to hurt and control women. We don’t know much of his background, or his past crimes, but we come upon him in the beginning of a killing spree in which he stylizes the dead body. The police try to track him down with the help of a super-detective, one devoted solely to the job, so much so that she sleeps at work.
Feminism and Comedy: More Humor Research: Aggression and Joking. German scholars have published a study in the Journal of Pragmatics stating that humor plays a significant role in establishing social hierarchy.
This study basically reiterates what feminist humor scholars have been saying all along: The power dynamics of gender dictate and guide the use of humor. From Ben Leach's great piece in the Telegraph: The theory explains why until recently it has been extremely rare for women to tell jokes in front of men, according to Helga Kotthoff of the Frieburg University of Education.She said: "Those 'on top' are freer to make others laugh.
Feminism and Comedy: We Killed: What Other, More Legitimate Reviewers Are Saying. As a feminism and comedy blog, we are obligated to inform you of the newest book on women in comedy: "We Killed: Women in American Comedy," by Yael Kohen.
I haven't read it yet, but I can summarize its reviews for you: New York Times: Janet Maslin writes for the NYT that We Killed is filled with stories from people in the industry and is "...apt to raise more questions than answers. " Lindy West on Being Fat and Dealing With Online Trolls. Feminism and Comedy: On Making a Rape PSA. Feminism and Comedy: Okay, we're not quite done talking about sexual violence and comedy... Feminism and Comedy: Badass of the Year: Lindy West. Patton Oswalt writes on rape jokes, heckling and joke stealing. By Dylan P.
Gadino | June 17, 2013 at 12:31 pm | 6 comments | News, Opinion | Tags: Patton Oswalt Patton Oswalt on Friday posted a lengthy missive that had comedy fans chattering all weekend. Patton Oswalt Wrote a Piece About Thieves, Hecklers, and Rape Jokes. 'The Chicago Tribune' Is Wrong About Hecklers; Patton Oswalt and Steve Heisler Are Right. Why Daniel Tosh’s ‘Rape Joke’ at the Laugh Factory Wasn’t Funny. The far-right Christian Patriarchy—brought to American audiences by the Duggar family—is on the verge of collapse after a series of alleged sex scandals involving the movement’s leaders.
Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar have put many years and a lot of work into putting a smiling, nearly normal-seeming face on the extreme Christian right. The couple adheres to a fringe strain of fundamentalist Christianity dubbed the “Christian patriarchy” or sometimes the “Quiverfull” movement, and while there is a lot of internal diversity to the movement, they generally preach a combination of beliefs that run counter to mainstream America: absolute female submission, a ban on dating, homeschooling, a rejection of higher education for women, and shunning of contraception in favor of trying to have as many children as humanly possible.
Why Daniel Tosh’s ‘Rape Joke’ at the Laugh Factory Wasn’t Funny. Daniel Tosh Apologizes For Rape Joke Aimed At Female Audience Member At Laugh Factory. UPDATE: Laugh Factory owner Jamie Masada, who claims to have been present the night of Tosh's show, has told Buzzfeed that the comedian's exchange with the offended audience member didn't happen the way she described. According to Masada, Tosh didn't make a joke about the woman getting raped and the topic arose when the comedian asked the audience what they wanted to talk about and someone said "rape. " Louis C.K. on Daniel Tosh’s Rape Joke: Are Comedy and Feminism Enemies? Rape culture. Examples of behaviors commonly associated with rape culture include victim blaming, sexual objectification, and trivializing rape. Rape culture has been used to model behavior within social groups, including prison rape and conflict areas where war rape is used as psychological warfare.
Entire countries have also been alleged to be rape cultures.[3][4][5][6][7] Although the concept of rape culture is used in feminist academia,[8] there is disagreement over what defines a rape culture and to what degree a given society meets the criteria to be considered a rape culture.[3] Writing about rape journalism.