Facepalm of the day: “10 Top Tips to End False Rape Accusations,” courtesy of the Men’s Rights subreddit
This lovely poster, meant as a sarcastic response to this “10 Top Tips to End Rape” poster, has gotten 759 upvotes in the Men’s Rights subreddit. Well, 759 net upvotes. It’s actually gotten more than 1200 upvotes, and 450 downvotes. Because, clearly, trying to stop the small percentage of rape accusations that are false is totally so much more important than trying to stop rape itself. Mocking rape prevention programs and promoting a culture in which women (and men, and genderqueer people) are afraid to come forward with real stories of rape for fear of being harassed and ridiculed is really the only decent thing to do. Plus: Lulz!
Here one commenter explains the “logic” behind the poster:
The discussion is, well, what you’d expect from r/mensrights. But don’t worry: some people have stepped up to critique the poster.
That’s right, solidwhetstone, your rapey poster wasn’t rapey enough!
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Posted on July 17, 2012, in antifeminism, douchebaggery, false accusations, hundreds of upvotes, I'm totally being sarcastic, men who should not ever be with women ever, misogyny, MRA, oppressed men, rape, rape jokes, rapey, reddit. Bookmark the permalink. 147 Comments.
@Pecunium,
But at the age of 18-21 I was a bit afraid of committing “rape by misadventure.”
I, too, had the experience of being very, very concerned about obtaining explicit consent before having sex when I was in college. I also naively assumed that women who were interested would be just as explicit about announcing their intentions (“did you get the reading assignment for class and by the way let’s have sex”).
Of course, in the real world, people have varying degrees of comfort with their own sexuality-young people even more so. As a result, I missed out on having sex a couple of times because I missed or was uncertain about signals that were, in retrospect, about as hard to miss as the Grand Canyon. Other times, I made out with women but dared not go any further because, well, no one told me so. It wasn’t so much a fear of committing rape as a fear of rejection; of course, the fact that women might be equally concerned about rejection did not occur to me. Unlike MRAs, however, I regard this not as a tragedy of epic proportions, but rather as a normal part of growing up and sexual inexperience. All things considered, it’s better to err on the side of caution until you’re clear about yours and other people’s boundaries.
Captain Bathrobe; Yeah, I am sure I missed out on some good times. I have only one real regret; because there was one which had some possibility, and each of us thought the other didn’t know we were alive.
It’s more amusing than that; because the situation was such that the MRAs would be freaking out at how, “she led me on”, or something. Never mind that the same could be said of me. Young, dumb,and foolish.
If only either of us had ever complained to the same person(s) that the other didn’t know we liked them…
Water under bridges.
All in all, I’m much happier it went that way, then the other.
From personal and professional experience, the best way to avoid a false rape accusation is to just pay the female. Never failed me yet!
I know you’re just trying to be obnoxious but I’ve already explained why that’s stupid.
Lousy attempts at humor aside, numbers one and six are exactly factually wrong. A drunk person cannot give valid consent to sex (just as they cannot give valid consent to a tattoo, a business contract et. al); sex without consent is rape.
So if I’m drunk and manage to pick-up a sober girl and bring her home, I’ve been raped ? :p Just kidding, we just have to make the difference between “having sex with a consenting girl being a little drunk, but still able to say no, when you’re drunk too”, and “being sober and picking-up a drunk girl on the verge of passing out just because she WON’T BE ABLE to say no”, the latter being as much rape as putting roofies in the glass of an unsuspecting girl. I just think that when you say that, because people can not give their consent to a tattoo when drunk, they cannot give consent for sex, is a bit misleading, it depends on the person.
The satirical graphic on fake rape is great. Thanks. Hadn’t seen it before. It now has 982 votes. I like it that is uses a contemporary African-American image rather than the 1930s Totalitarian socialist concentration-camp era style image in the original.