The truth about TV’s rape obsession: How we struggle with the broken myths of masculinity

[malthaussen]

1. I'd speculate that rage is on the increase...

... even if crime is on the decrease. There are a lot of really pissed-off people who are resorting more often to violence to express their anger. I think this accounts not just for increase in rape, but for increases in mass shootings and police violence.

Since the TV industry is still mostly oriented to entertaining the specific demographic that is most pissed-off, they are increasingly offering the rape du jour as part of the menu. There has been, lord only knows, eons of depictions of deadly violence, but rape I think is particularly satisfying to this demographic because of the attendent humiliation and shame for the victim. Or, to put it another way, if Sam Colt made men equal by producing the revolver, rape makes them superior by dominating others.

Just a speculation.

-- Mal