worst line: 'I like rape'
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wel_da_war — 16 years ago(August 20, 2009 03:54 AM)
Rape is about control. Rape has nothing to do with sex. Any idiot with $20 can get a whore to have sex with him. Only a loser with low self esteem, looking for an ego boost, chooses to willingly rape a defenseless woman "just to get off". If you think rape is about sex and nothing else, you are a MORON.
The world is yours & everything in it. It's out there; get on your grind and get it. -
TCall2004 — 15 years ago(November 27, 2010 01:13 PM)
"While there is an element of power and control to rape, it is still about sex. This is just another example of nonsensical feminist propaganda in an attempt to further denigrate men"
Is there something WRONG with you?
You think RAPE is okay?????? Maybe you should experience it. -
karsultimate — 14 years ago(April 17, 2011 05:29 AM)
Maybe he should kill himself. Would that make you happy?
He's obviously taking about the false claims. Those
are
attempts to denigrate men or whatever.
Maybe you should experience a fist put through the back of your head, because you're sure as hell not using that brain.
"Due to cruel circumstances that would not be allowed to happen quite that easily" -
Tommen_Saperstein — 9 years ago(October 31, 2016 06:04 PM)
Yeah, rape has nothing to do with sex except for the fact that's what they are DOING! And the fact the guy ejaculates at the end is also a hint it's kind of sexual.
Then how come straight males rape other men in prison?
Learn some basic psychology, moron. You can start with Wikipedia. -
brscth74 — 16 years ago(April 22, 2009 12:42 PM)
Sorry but that is absolutely wrong. Rape has always been considered to be one of the most heinous crimes, even back in common law it was seen just as bad as murder. This is not my opinion, this is what I have read in my procedural criminal law book, and in my substantial criminal law book. We have since changed some laws like the ability to charge a husband for raping his wife, but little has changed since common law era.
As far as taking the line out of the movie, this is the first I have heard of it. I personally think it was funny because they are recruiting the most evil people they can find and a rapist was one of them. If this offends people they need to lighten up, its a movie. -
MickBarr-1 — 16 years ago(May 11, 2009 09:29 PM)
Completely agree, re: They were recruiting the most evil people they could find.
Why it's funny: Who says "I like rape"? Not even a rapist.
OK, so let's summarize. Rape is not funny. A villain in a movie saying "I like rape" That's funny.
Especially in the context of this movie, to find THIS more offensive than everything else is kind of curious, because it implies that you are OK with the other offensive material.
One either needs to take all of the movie in its proper context, or none of it. "None of it" only makes sense to me if you think that Brooks wrote "I like rape" and "Up yours, N****r!" as personal editorial commentaries.
It is clear to me that they are not. -
ebon1313 — 15 years ago(January 24, 2011 02:54 PM)
Nod.
The only person that I've ever seen say something like that was Shakespeare's John the Bastard when he said "I am a plain-dealing villain". I could be wrong but I don't think most evil people consider themselves "evil".
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wel_da_war — 15 years ago(November 06, 2010 09:30 PM)
I agree with you that legally, rape has been a criminal offense for a long time, but socially, it hasn't been taken nearly as seriously as it has been for the past 20 or 30 years.
I don't know if the statistic has changed, but when I was in high school, we had to attend a thing where people from the group WINGS (Women In Need of God's Service) spoke to the students about rape, etc.
They said that something like 50% of rapes go unreported, and are often committed by somebody the victim knows.
It's not that the legal system doesn't care about rape, it's that society often doesn't. Even now, women victims tend to blame themselves for what happened, and sometimes even their own friends and family as well.
All of that aside, I still agree that there is nothing distasteful about the "I like rape" line in Blazing Saddles. As you said, it was there to re-enforce the idea that they were recruiting the most "evil" people they could find.
The world is yours & everything in it. Its out there; get on your grind & get it.