Rape in Entertainment

Shakesville has this great article on rape in entertainment, timely for me since the issue has been on my mind more prominently. It's very much worth a read and has links to articles written on similar issues.

Just while thinking about this - there's a lot of internet hyperbole I feel uncomfortable using. I don't like to use words of violence against others - not even that popular one, DIAF - although I have used it (I wrote it in a couple of entries below this one, in regards the whole rapist footballer thing - and TBH, I struggled over leaving it in) - the few times I've gone to write it I've felt discomfited and have usually deleted and changed to something less violent. I feel the same way about saying "I hate" in regards to an actual person, although again I have said it, rarely meaning the ACTUAL person, but their behaviour that angered me. I am trying to consciously change this tic most people have to be less personal.

One thing I can't use, have never used, is internet hyperbole that refers to sexual violence - "x is like being butt-fucked". Of course, butt-fucked is not the same as saying butt-raped, but it's always used to indicate an... awful experience, which to me also implies violence and non-consent. I have always been discomfited by the very casual and widespread use of such expressions on the net. I understand nothing is really meant by them, but that in itself bothers me - that expressions of sexual violence are being used without considered thought.

Hurm.