[Serious] PSA: Rape Apologetics

[Rev. Rye]

Nope and I assume it’s deleted by now. Why?

Nope, it isn't deleted. Fair warning it's BAD.

https://atheistforums.org/thread-63005-page-5.html

Actually, I think the first post to really hit the rape apology threshold was here.

I suppose he's technically accurate when he said that, at the time, Cosby's rape was seen as "business as usual" (I would have made clearer that this is a bad thing normalised by a fucked-up culture [rape culture or a depraved celebrity culture, take your pick], a descriptive but decidedly not prescriptive statement; fucking Hell, this is why I occasionally tag posts like that with "Why, Yes, That Does Suck"), and maybe treating Cosby's chief sin as hypocrisy kinda makes sense in a sort of "Hannibal-Lecter-saying-Buffalo-Bill's-Big-Sin-Is-Coveting-And-Not-Making-A-Lady-Suit-Out-Of-Real-Ladies" way



(Feel free to disagree with that particular assessment. I'm not sure how well it holds up myself.)

But the big thing that galled me was that he seemed to treat rape like any other kink (Anyone who's read me talk about women's feet should be able to guess that I know kink and rape ain't it). And I only just read the part where he treated most of the rapes as part of some sort of ploy to break into TV &c.