Smart comment, WingHaz.

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.
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Besides the earlier line about rape was way worse IMO.
"Due to cruel circumstances that would not be allowed to happen quite that easily"

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".
//L.

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.

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.

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.

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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"

"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.

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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.

How is it, then, that men can be raped?
Rape is a crime of violence and control. You are showing serious ignorance here. It involves sex but is about more than that.
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Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow.

If you doubt yourself so much, that's probably good enough reason for you to stop with that rambling.
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Why do you insult carewser, he said nothing wrong
There are different types of rape, so to say Yeah, if we're talking about a "man in a park at night attacking women" then yes, it's more likely that the crime is commited because of that urge to overpower and physically dominate the victim If, for example, it's some drunk highschool or college guy in a party who rapes some girl I seriously doubt that has something more to it than just guy's hormones and general want for sex
Rape is a rape in any case and I don't think in this movie the character wo said he likes to rape was th kind of man who is attacking women at parks during the night he's probably of the sort of those who get drunk in some saloon and then just takes a women with no intention to beat her up or kill after he's raped her. I doubt it has something more to do with than just an urge to have sex.
I doubt that in this case the person would not be able to enjoy sex in any other way than rape the same goes with my previous example about college parties etc. And never once carewser said that people who were raped would enjoy/enjoyed it. He only said something about feminist propaganda that made everyone take up arms
I don't think we should generalize although modern society likes to paint everything black and white and everyone is supposed to have the "politically correct" opinion.

"carewser, every time I think I have met the dumbest person on the internet, someone else comes along to show me just how wrong I am. Today, you were the one"
Second that emotion..he is an insensitive boor.

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Agreed! I can see why people would be uncomfortable with it, but it didnt bother me overmuch.

No, it wasn't. Rape was used to identify the people who "loved rape" as being base neanderthals, the lowest of the low. Note, the people who loved rape were the bad guys of the film.
http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=22803231

I still find it funny. It wasn't condoning rape was it?
Just Kidding

I find it funny that rape upset some nancyboys on this thread but everything else didn't. ROTFLMAO. I read these threads and remember why America is bankrupt - in every way imaginable.

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carewser, every time I think I have met the dumbest person on the internet, someone else comes along to show me just how wrong I am. Today, you were the one.
It's called a BRAIN. ~USE IT!

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"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"
The violent aspect of rape is not "nonsensical feminist propaganda". Speaking as a man, and not a pro-feminist one at that, I find your comment to be completely ignorant. Rape is a sexually-driven act of violence. Rapists, especially serial rapists, do not get generall get sexually aroused with anything other than the overpowering nature of a sexual assualt. For the victim, it's not about sex. The idea of being overpowered and violated is bad enough; take into account the fact that rape victims don't know if they'll be killed, and you have a life-altering traumatic event. Perhaps YOU should be raped, and you'll see how close to a sexual encounter it is for you. Rapists are not "men", and they should be removed of their manhood.