Finishing the documentary Tough Guise in class left me speechless feeling a lot of different emotions. I thoroughly enjoyed it and gained a lot of insight. My last post I said something that stuck with me but finishing the film something else truly stuck out to me and it was the video of the fraternity boys raping the passed out girl.
They made a HUGE joke about it calling her "dead as a doornail" and saying they raped her harder than the guy from Pulp Fiction. ALL of them were laughing and joking about it and I thought to myself how that would never happen with people that I know, It's too insane. But that's when I realized that some of the jokes they were saying I've heard before and get the same response. Although the people I know would never go through with such a disgusting act like that but the fact that they joke about it so casually is the universal downfall that I realized.
We live in a culture where everything is a joke and everyone does things to get a laugh. People put their lives on the lines just to be comedic. Our tv shows like family guy or south park take violence and abuse to the extreme to show that they are joking because they know it's wrong. I've heard people say "That test raped me" and they use rape in a context thats so extreme so people know it's a joke. That's the thing, we have become too okay with these terms and don't realize how serious they are.
People need to realize the severity of these words and what they actually mean. No, you can't be raped by a test but that word should strike fear and people should be conscious of its meaning. We use these words casually in our daily lives to make it less severe than it is. We need to remind people that our lives aren't a joke.
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