Best Quote

Trigger warning

There is an app on Facebook called “Best Quotes”. I don’t even remember why/how I ended up getting these popping up on my news feed, but I read them on occasion. Today, I saw the following:

“I had sex with my girlfriend last night. It was going pretty good, except the entire time she was screaming someone else’s name… Anyone know who rape is?”

It made me feel a little better to see some outrage in the comments. The post was called sick, disturbing, not funny, insensitive and should no way have ever made it to a “Best Quote” with 452 likes.

452 (Hell, 459 now!) people sat at their computer and laughed at rape and passed this off as a joke. There were some users telling others to calm down, and that if they could find the humor in it as a rape victim themselves then so should everyone else. They tell everyone else that they are just taking something on facebook too seriously (Female Rapist Pigs by Ariel Levy, coming soon!).

One of the comments that stood out to me was:

“OMFG DON’T LIKE IT UNLIKE THEM AND STFU, and if you got raped boowho happens all the time ur lucky you didn’t get mugged and had you’re friend stabbed right I’n front of you….”

It happens ALL THE TIME. You are LUCKY. The fact that rape is a fortunate thing, and comparable to having your possessions stolen from you is just makes my head spin. I don’t meant to portray that experience lightly either, but that comparison is pretty much apples and oranges. I will never understand how taking comments about rape serious makes US seem like the crazy ones. If you refuse to take rape lightly you need a chill pill. Another comment expressed how I feel best:

“For those who have been raped this is sick, to those who haven’t; it should frighten you that people think like this.”

And this young woman is right. I’ve gone beyond annoyance, past anger and right into utter fear. If this were to happen to me, or someone else, how would be able to tell someone overtop all the laughter? We might as well offer rape kits at comedy clubs as seriously as it is taken at times.