Looks like Amazon in the U.K. loves it some rape culture.
I checked and they aren’t in the U.S. Amazon Store, but the company is real.
Disgusting.
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Joel L. Watts holds a Masters of Arts from United Theological Seminary with a focus in literary and rhetorical criticism of the New Testament. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific discoveries of the past century. He is the author of Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark: Introduction and Commentary (Wipf and Stock, 2013) and a co-editor and contributor to From Fear to Faith: Stories of Hitting Spiritual Walls (Energion, 2013).
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If anyone wears “Keep Calm and Rape Me”, they deserve what they get – which probably wouldn’t be counted as rape.
“they deserve what they get”
You’re serious, right ?
Simon, see my reply to Ken below.
See, as a ‘follower of Jesus’ – I thought you might think that they might deserve … compassion ? Love ? Tenderness ? Forgiveness ? Patience ? Kindness ?
Well, no. Nothing can be assumed as blanket consent like that, even something as stupid as a “Rape Me” shirt.
Just like the “Hello, my name in Inigo Montoya.You killed my father. Prepare to die” t-shirt is not, in fact, a threat.
And, no. Even a woman stupid enough to put on a “Rape Me” shirt doesn’t deserve to be raped.
This product line is reprehensible, though. I guess Amazon has no standards.
Ken, you are right. I’m not really suggesting that men should take the shirt as consent. But it is incitement, and I think anyone accused of raping someone wearing it, with the help of a good lawyer, might be acquitted.
“Looks like Amazon in the U.K. loves it some rape culture.”
Looks like it’s an American company that sells it …
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aag/main?ie=UTF8&asin=&isAmazonFulfilled=&isCBA=&marketplaceID=A1F83G8C2ARO7P&orderID=&seller=AR3AWZIZHIS69
This is probably not realistic, since I’m not familiar with the British lingo….but when I took a tour
of the Engish countryside, it was covered with rape….beautiful yellow flower fields, from which they get rapeseed, used in vegetible oil. So I don’t suppose this is being refered to in any way? Probably not. But I liked the rape fields in bloom around their countryside.
Gary, “rape” as a noun is ambiguous between that crop and a crime, but “rape” as a verb, as on those shirts, had only one meaning, a criminal one.