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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM2RUVnTlvs
 
That **** was funny. I love Amy Schumer.
 
...but what if my mom is the DA and she will not prosecute?
 
Cy said:
Well it was a joke about how you shouldn't rape people and how rape is wrong, so I don't really see how it's offensive.
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Some people are so worried about offending somebody that they never have fun. Or they just wanna white knight.
 
Stifle Tower said:
Sorry, I just don't see the humor in joking about rape.

And I have no idea what the wine glass is all about.
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Amy Schumer made a pretty clever commentary on how football culture is intertwined with rape culture. The last little pep talk by the coach is the punch line.
 
Gameface said:
Amy Schumer made a pretty clever commentary on how football culture is intertwined with rape culture. The last little pep talk by the coach is the punch line.
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This. It's funny and very sad all at the same time. It's social commentary.
 
The rest of that episode is great. So we started watching season 2. So far its not nearly as good.
 
VINYLONE said:
What is this commentary based on?
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Did you watch the clip? The new coach does things a little different, no huddle offense, and no raping. Runs into a lot of resistance. First game his team is getting beat so at halftime he gives a speech about how his team needs to dominate the other team. They need to take what they want, the other team isn't going to lie down and give it to them.
 
VINYLONE said:
What is this commentary based on?
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Gameface said:
Did you watch the clip? The new coach does things a little different, no huddle offense, and no raping. Runs into a lot of resistance. First game his team is getting beat so at halftime he gives a speech about how his team needs to dominate the other team. They need to take what they want, the other team isn't going to lie down and give it to them.
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Really it harkens back to this case:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steubenville_High_School_rape_case

The community rallied around the football players who tossed around this poor drunken passed-out teenage girl and filmed it, while more or less labeling her a slut. Only after a huge public outcry from outside the state and threats from anonymous did any of the boys involved get any kind of punishment or even charges and even then they were mild slaps on the wrist more than anything else. Very disgraceful. I remember reading about this one and there were grown adults in that community who basically said just what the old women said, that the young men needed to blow off steam and the girl was a slut anyway, total ******** like that.

The case garnered nationwide attention after it was prominently covered in the New York Times, in part for the role of social media in its development.[8] The self-proclaimed "rape crew"[9] publicized the event using Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, and text messages. Video and photo evidence reveal that the girl was sexually assaulted over the course of several hours.[8] The video and photo evidence showed her to be unconscious. Some members of the community blamed the girl for her own rape and blamed her for casting a negative light on the football team and town.[8]
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LogGrad98 said:
Really it harkens back to this case:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steubenville_High_School_rape_case

The community rallied around the football players who tossed around this poor drunken passed-out teenage girl and filmed it, while more or less labeling her a slut. Only after a huge public outcry from outside the state and threats from anonymous did any of the boys involved get any kind of punishment or even charges and even then they were mild slaps on the wrist more than anything else. Very disgraceful. I remember reading about this one and there were grown adults in that community who basically said just what the old women said, that the young men needed to blow off steam and the girl was a slut anyway, total ******** like that.
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It's terrible how bad people can get fooled into behaving.
 
Gameface said:
Is that sarcasm?
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No, I meant like they fool themselves into thinking hey are acting the right way. It was meant for the story about the whole town that convinced themselves that the football team should be raping girls, and they should look the other way. In my mind, the whole town is just as guilty for permitting such a ****ty culture.
 
b_line said:
No, I meant like they fool themselves into thinking hey are acting the right way. It was meant for the story about the whole town that convinced themselves that the football team should be raping girls, and they should look the other way. In my mind, the whole town is just as guilty for permitting such a ****ty culture.
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I guess my reaction to your comment was that I have no tolerance for people excusing their behavior because they were fooled or because there was peer pressure or because everybody else was doing it.

I think my parents were a bit extreme in how they raised my sister and I to make our own choices about our lives and to be fully prepared to face the consequences on our own. I ran with a bad crowd and I was usually 100% cool with what we would get up to. When I wasn't I would walk away. I was a seen as being sort of a weird guy from the times I would opt out of what was going on, but it had been drilled into me from a very early age that my life my choice and I was completely responsible for my own actions and would bear the full weight of the consequences. If I wasn't down I was out.

Fool me once, naw, you ain't gonna fool me. I make my own decisions.
 
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