six high school seniors wear tshirts spelling out "RAPE?"

[seabeyond]

117. it is important to recognize many many many men are not looking to play in the ugly. i agree.

but, it does not behooves us to deny that this is not prevalent, because i believe it is. be it the gaming world, or movies, tv shows and anywhere else our social environment takes us. to own it, acknowledge it is the only way we will be able to resolve it.

i stopped watching tv over a decade ago, because of the rampant sexism that i did not find entertaining at all, and did not find the humor in. my son has since started bring me dvds of shows. first big bang. ya some, but... we discuss, the way they do it, mostly it turns out ok. community. they go to far. parks and recreation gets a huge thumbs up for me. psych? "how did you know she was lying, (all four men say together) she is a woman. hit and miss. now we are doing how i met your mother. so many rape jokes for a laugh, with barney. and there have been three really bad, misogynist, typical storyline conditioning of this garbage. and most all the other shows excellent.

seeing these kids write this out on their shirt, having boys this age, i know they are not thinking thru the consequence of this type of humor. but.... it matters. and we have a society that is creating, feeding, entertaining us with rape.

why should any of us be surprised that the boys are entertained by it? it is their empowerment over another. kinda fun.