Longtime reader and friend of the blog Dawn Pine, aka The Male Brain, had some interesting thoughts to add to a subject that doesn’t get anywhere near the level of attention that it should: the trivialisation and mainstream acceptance of male rape. He put together a short and rather cogent analysis, based on a longer video, of the subject, and sent it over to me to do with as I saw fit. Here is his work, with a little bit of mostly cosmetic editing from me, to shed some light on a very uncomfortable, difficult, but real problem for masculine men everywhere.

Much gratitude and appreciation to Dawn for his efforts and contributions to the blog here, as always.

Politics is downstream of culture. We accept that statement. This means that if something has a hold on culture, it will be reflected in politics – which may affect our lives. I recently came across the following clip. Take a seat, relax, and view it at your leisure, as it is rather long – about 30 minutes:

Let us start with the facts:

1. Sexual harassment is about power;
2. Men get abused sexually more than women;
3. Culture has something to do with it – emphasis on “something”, plainly it is not everything;

I will admit, that in most cases shown, I can recall that I was somewhat disgusted. In some cases, as the clip state, “it went under the radar”. Most of the time, I thought those type of jokes were pointless. 

It is very easy to picture what would happen if you reverse the genders. The cultural storm can take care of our energy needs for the following year. If someone threaten a woman with rape, that person (unless it is a “disadvantaged person”) will find that getting a job or showing his/her face will be challenging.

As Morgan Freeman told Jessica Tandy in Driving Ms. Daisy: “Once you see the light, you cannot go back”. Once you notice that, suddenly you took another part of that bitter Red Pill. Now that radar is working, and those rape jokes become even more apparent and tasteless.

If you go to 4:58, you will be shocked to see that it is not only a grown-up thing. Children’s movies seem to have that, a lot. As a father, who knows how depraved the culture is, this is another sign of the forthcoming moral and social collapse. However, this does not make me happy and makes me work even harder with my kids to show it to them and point it out – it is not funny, it’s horrifying.

The idea that only women are raped or abused is a great way in which the current culture silences men. You were raped? No way. Either you are a pussy victim and deserve to be raped or you are just lying. This is not toxic masculinity, this is toxic culture. Terry Crews (who I have never heard of, until this video) was told that it is a joke. This is no joke. This is culture in which both men and women use men as easy targets.

The clip does an excellent job in analyzing this trend. It points to the following:

• Emasculation: If you are vulnerable, than you are not a man and should be assaulted. You are pathetic if that happened to you. The mirror statement is that if a woman was raped it was her fault. Or a better one is that if someone beat you up, it was your fault.
• Homophobia: If you were assaulted, you are gay. Let’s recheck the facts – Gays are ~5% of the population (on an extremely good day). If you happened to be a victim, that does not mean anything about your orientation.
• Uncontrollable sexual desire: it’s ok to assault because that person targeting you just can’t help himself. Good luck trying that line in a sexual assault case, but of it’s a movie than it is cool. Just because someone is gay (or whatever LGBTQ thing is going on there) doesn’t mean it somehow affect anyone else. If that person is a predator (~10% of the population) then he is probably not a threat. 

Prison rape is prominent – this is why men are raped more than women in that environment. This can also be reduced very easily – if the powers that are actually wanted it.

Police using rape threats as means of coercing confession – Here is a thing that some people don’t get about the police. It regular people trying to do their job. It’s not justice or truth, it’s simply resolving the case. In order to do that, the appearance needs to be as compatible to the known circumstances as possible. In order to do that, interrogation tactics will be used. This is why you STFU and let your lawyer speak.

Sexual assault on the bad guy is actually revenge porn – No, not an actual porn, but that kind that makes you feel good. If the bad guy is raped, he deserved it (he is a bad guy, right?). The audience accept it since someone else is the target. If they were the target, the movie industry will be bankrupted before the next wave of #MeToo will hit.

I will go along with the claim stated on 23:50 – “Rape can never be a form of justice”. At least not in the current society. Maybe in a more ancient one, but even those had their taboos. If rape is accepted for some, the logical conclusion is that it will be accepted for more. Since people have different views on who is a criminal, that idea of “rape culture” (not the one we know and dislike, but an actual culture which shows us that rape is ok in some cases) becomes accepted.

Cameron Esposito, shown on 24:52 is not funny. She is however, truthful. The audience laughs because it is a way to relieve the uncomfortable feelings and disgust it just felt. The writer/creator sees it and thinks it was a good joke. That mechanism will perpetuate itself, the same way Adam Sandler does. It is an easy way to get cheap laughs.

To sum it up, in 27:57 the clip states that pushing taboo might be treating survivors with dignity. I want to up the ante and suggest trying to treat most of the audience in dignity. That will shock us, for sure.

In conclusion, the idea behind that clip was about awareness for queer prisoners. As that may be a problem (I honestly don’t know), the clip raised a larger topic with regards to men and male sexual abuse in culture. We live in a degenerate culture, one that is breaking up faster and faster. Part of that decline is the way reality is “portrayed”. Those jokes and cultural stream is not going away anytime soon. So what can one do about it?

This mainstream acceptance and trivialisation of male rape has to stop. The best ways for you to help stop this madness are quite simple:

Awareness – Once you see the light, you cannot go back. Once we know it is there – one can have better guard against the moral decline.

Try not to watch that shit – if someone is doing this type of humor regularly, I try not to watch his films.

If you have kids – explain it to them. Share your disgust and point out the tastelessness in it.