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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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.