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Based on a comment I left on Cracked.com. http://www.cracked.com/article_18657_the-7-most-insane-things-ever-done-to-get-out-something.html

I included a screen cap of this comment instead of just pasting the text (below) because it visually sums up the typical response to this sort of objection. Look at the thumbs up counts. Also note the comment is 7 months old. It gets even worse when you expand the comments, though there are some sensible comments, they hardly get a single thumbs up. (I don’t thumb in my own threads. Bias.)

innomen: 05/10/11 12:46 PM+7

I love this site, but I’m tired of all the jail rape humor. Considering the number of people in jail for total bulls**t, mostly drug related, like this guy that recently got life for 2 pounds of grass, and the fact that felons still have human rights, which should protect one from rape, to the fact that a huge portion of prisoners are mentally ill, making jokes about a very real very urgent very obvious problem is kind of a harsh move.

Do the research. And try to imagine being raped because you can’t afford bail or a good lawyer, or because you’re black, despite being innocent. Now make a joke about it. If you still can, f**k you, you’re one of the bad guys.

prestorjon: 05/15/11 01:57 PM +2

haha that’s hillarious! do another one!
Spanghew: 05/22/11 04:16 PM +25

what about the people who are in jail for rape?

lawtonaaj: 05/26/11 01:50 PM +5

they are the prime target for rape, people hate sex offenders, and people that harm children or the elderly the most. i have worked in a prision. child molesters are on the floor 24/7

ana_ng: 05/31/11 08:23 AM +6

Seconded. Prison rape is a horrible reality that we not only condone as a society, but that we also openly use as a weapon. It’s disgusting.

Niblet: 05/31/11 08:52 AM +5

I also agree (and have commented on it on cracked before). It isn’t funny.

lunargriffin: 05/31/11 11:04 AM +4

EVERYONE has human rights. That doesn’t stop it from happening.

Esprit15: 05/31/11 12:51 PM +1

*insert “OSAMA HAD RIGHTS AND HE GOT SHOT!* comment here*

Carlos-Murillo 06/01/11 11:33 PM -2

Jesus, get over it. If you’re touchy about something, don’t read the article. If it happens on ALL the articles, stop coming to Cracked. They can’t cater to everyone’s sensitivity, and obviously for the most part people like this kind of humor. Just get over it or stop reading the articles.

Hxy3000: 06/03/11 07:23 AM -7

American prisons are just filled with h**os.

jumpinjackflash: 06/11/11 11:56 PM +2

I agree, especially with the last sentence of innomen’s comment. Like it or not, if you can joke about that kind of s**t, you are the bad guy.

porphyria: 07/22/11 12:49 AM +3

No, people who are in jail for rape are NOT prime targets for being raped themselves – that’s child molestors, which is totally not the same thing. Cons are ok with men who rape adult women, it’s kiddy-fiddlers they can’t stand. Which still doesn’t make it right. Prison rape is not funny, and people who joke about it are scum.

Tanglebones: 07/22/11 01:23 AM +1

Nawp. If there’s any subject that you can’t joke about, you’re one of the bad guys. Humour is the ultimate form of free speech, anyone who wants to supress it, wants to supress freedom!

DrTranquility: 07/22/11 06:48 AM +7

So a prison rapist and a catholic priest walk into a bar….

Joach: 07/22/11 09:28 AM -4

Did anyone notice that his name is, broken down, in-no-men. Hah! Do your farts still make a sound or are you shitting pancakes?

YourMomsGyno: 07/22/11 06:30 PM 0

Tuche innomen Tuche. Haters gonna hate.

Captain Endi: 08/14/11 04:11 PM +3

…so in other words, I like offensive humor, as long as it doesn’t offend ME. But I have to give you comedic props for posting an anti-rape humor rant under the name “in no men.”

innomen: 11/22/11 04:44 AM +1

FYI: in-nomen it means without name you ignorant wretches. It’s a variation on innominatus.

@Spanghew doesn’t matter what they are in jail for, no one deserves to be raped. Anything you do to a criminal that would be in itself a crime, makes you an ethical hypocrite. I don’t expect anyone to change their mind based on what I write. Once an ignorant frat wretch always an ignorant frat wretch.

@Carlos-Murillo “If you don’t like it don’t look” arguments are spineless. Some of us have the sand to speak out. Get back to work drone.

@Tanglebones
Not having the freedom to do something and refraining to do something because it is in bad taste are completely different animals. By that logic any action which is legal is automatically ethical. Which is obviously bullshit. Joking about a problem we’re working on is fine, but joking about something people by and large don’t even see as a problem is another matter entirely. It would be a bit like honor killing jokes in Iran. That s**t isn’t a laughing matter when women are actually getting acid poured on their faces. Just like hail rape isn’t funny when people are being raped daily and no one seems to give a shit.

@Endi

I like irreverent humor, and I also like “it’s funny because it’s true” humor which cracked is full of. This site researches more than many mainstream news sites.

If I merely liked offensive humor I’d just randomly spam chat rooms with racial slur floods or hang out with the GIFWT defectives on 4chan.

@Supporters
Thank you.

Aayee: 12/15/11 08:34 AM 0

prestorjon, don’t know why you’re not getting more thumbs up for that reply. Caught me completely off guard. Thanks for the laugh buddy.

AndStephRaw: 01/02/12 01:20 AM 0

@innomen: Have you seen the pseudonyms these guys use. They are obviously 12 year old trolls who think ‘gay’ is the ultimate insult.

I think it’s fair to joke about anything so long as when it gets right down to it we react like ethical adults when the time comes. Chuckling about the fire is fine if you’re fighting it at the time.

But we don’t really do anything substantive as a society about prison rape. Most of us seem to think of it as just punishment and an amusing part of prison, for those of us outside. Indeed, “rape” has now become synonymous with victory. “Man, I got RAPED at Call of Duty last night.”

Apparently I’m the only one that sees a problem with this. The feminists don’t care for example. Presumably because it’s men being raped, and in their eyes, being men, we’re all just one opportunity away from being rapists already, so they say we all deserve it by default. (If a feminist out there disagrees with me, let’s see you do something to end prison rape. Yeah, thought not.)

Unfortunately for them after a man has been brutalized in prison simply for being smaller and weaker, it probably comes pretty naturally to at least consider doing the same thing to women if they get out.

Mainly because as a culture we have the ethical integrity of an Abu Ghraib interrogator. Setting aside the logical facepalm that is, the rationale for vengeance generally, and the notion that prisoners “deserve” to be raped so we can feel better about ourselves. Huge swaths of prisoners are there for reasons 99% of thinking people would conclude are not rape worthy, if anything ever can be.

And as I said in the comment; Basically I’m tired of all the jail rape humor. Considering the number of people in jail for total crap, mostly drug related, like the guy that recently got life for 2 pounds of grass, and the fact that felons still have human rights, which should protect one from rape, to the fact that a huge portion of prisoners are mentally ill, making jokes about a very real very urgent very obvious problem that no one is doing anything about because they think it’s funny, is unjustifiable.

Do the research. And try to imagine being raped because you can’t afford bail, or a good lawyer, or because you’re black, or because forensic science is a joke, or because 12 morons think CSI is real life. Now make a joke about it.

If you still can you’re one of the bad guys.

The very existence and success of the innocence project, and the very obvious trend of those without money or without white skin disproportionately going to jail, should tell us that maybe we need not be so cavalier with our fantasy rape sentences.