Okay, so this isn’t about homelessness, or underserved populations, but it is about violence against women, and the culture that allows that to be acceptable. And that DOES affect the women that I work with. It’s also my only forum since I gave up FaceBook for Lent so bear with me.
My friend sent me a link to this video today: Thank God for Dead Japanese Atheists. I’m a little reticent to send her more traffic, but why not support good satire? In case it gets removed I’ll tell you the gist: It’s a video about a girl who prayed for God to send Atheists a wake up call and she says that the earthquake in Japan was just this. She has a lot of videos to this effect, and I’m about a hundred percent certain she’s parodizing extremist Christian culture. Whether or not I’m correct however, doesn’t really matter for this post.
Right now she’s getting over a hundred comments a minute from people who find her opinion despicable. I was reading over them, relatively impressed she’s caused such furor, but I noticed a disturbing theme in the violent rhetoric directed towards her. Let’s see if you can find it:
“I lol’ed hard and then decided to punch my balls. This bitch is a fucking RETARD or a whorish troll. In any case I just want to choke her and bend her over and then oil a spiked baseball and rape that cunt over and over again, hell even the ER would facepalm and cut her pussy. SOMEONE KILL THIS BITCH NOW!”
“I want to throw her down and rape her. For fun.
I’m a woman.”
“You can get on your knees and suck my giant cock”
“Get down on your knees and pray to me, woman. I’ll even buy a strap on just so I can watch you choke on my fake dick.”
“Have you considered Weight Watchers? And plastic surgery? Because you’re gonna need it when us 84,000 viewers gonna come and rape you in the ass.”
“You are so ignorant!!!! Many people don’t have to die! For your stupid religion!! I hope a black guy rapes the shit out of you for your ignorance.”
“I hope some big black atheist takes her from behind”
“I hope You will be raped one day by a group of huge-cocked atheist, You psycho bitch 
”
“Why don’t you pause the video, get on your knees and suck on a dick you self righteous bitch.”
“take your shirt off, bitch.”
“you damn fucking slut …. i am not even sorry for thinking that someone should please rip you the fuck apart”
“I hope God DIES! Along with you! DROWN in semen bitch!”
“You look cute and dumb, Can i please screw you so hard that you scream out gods name in vanity. …”
“what this bitch need is a good fuck….lol.. then she will be calling my dick god.. lol….”
“I cant contain my load come deep throat my cock and swallow my satanic cum bitch!”
“I’m agnostic and I respect all the religions.. but this went faaaaaaaaaaar away from the acceptable line. I HOPE YOU GET RAPED BY 9.000 PENIS.”
For every overt threat of rape, there are dozens more that just call her a whore or slut and wish her a violent death. This woman (actually, she looks more like a girl, really) describes praying for hateful things, and people respond by describing violent sexual acts they’d like to see performed on her. And I say people because evidently some of these commenters are women. Furthermore, other people are posting her name, phone number, and address and saying they hope she gets what’s coming to her. Wow, way to go mob. What’s worse, an intolerant Christian wishing death on thousands of people or the person who wants to rape her to teach her a lesson? Don’t answer that.
This sort of satire is hard for me, because it brings out and makes fun of the dark side of my religion, but I’m willing to take a bit of ribbing for all the problems that religion has caused. However, I’m not willing to stand by and have violent sexual rhetoric publicly posted about a woman because they don’t like her “beliefs”. We can’t accept this even if we do find what she is saying horrible; doing so only further grants that it is okay to use sexual violence against women to keep them in their place.
Update: In case you think I’m wrong and you think that this lady is totally serious why don’t you teach her a lesson she wont soon forget by Donating to the Red Cross. Or text REDCROSS to 90999 to make a ten dollar donation with your cell phone. It seems more helpful to the Japanese than raping her.
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Yeah, no. If no raping, then no troll-raping.
It scares me that “I’m a gonna rape you” has become the default commenter’s expression of disagreement.
Very important observations. Defaulting to rape and violence against women is anger is unfortunate. Yet it seems so natural to people they don’t even think about what they are writing.
It’s a whole lot of hate on both sides. Kind of makes me sick.
the race angle is f’ed up too.
Phil, I totally agree; it’s pretty insane. I couldn’t decide if the commenters were racist and thought it would be worse to be raped by a black man, they assumed she was racist and wouldn’t want to be raped by a black man especially, or everyone is just pretty certain all black men have huge penises and that would make it worse. Some questions will just never be answered.
on further reflection–without having seen the video or most of the comments– The responses clearly reflect a certain level of sexism in society. But–it mostly sounds like a bunch of teenaged boys trying to be as offensive as possible. and rape is a good choice on that front. any obvious differences between them and the video’er would have been a target–sex, race, physical disability, whatever. so… medically castrate ‘em all, please, but maybe they’re no more sexist than they are anything-else-ist. which isn’t an improvement, but does change the context some, i think?
Interesting point. I don’t really think all these commenters are rapists, but I do think their willingness to use such language, and the fact that I didn’t see any of the commenters say anything about sexually violent language, suggests an acceptance that this is an acceptable way to insult someone. I think it is similar to using images of burning her on a cross if she happened to be black, but I don’t think we would have seen that.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
I thank you humbly for shraing your wisdom JJWY
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