“A part of me wished I was raped”!?!?

The supposedly popular site, CollegeHumor.com is full of troubling content, but this video is downright upsetting.  The caption: "Jamie Lee finds a way to make sexual harassment fun again."  (What could they possibly mean by again ?!)

This female comedian suggests that women have some kind of desire to be sexually assaulted. Excuse me?!  Women do not want to be raped.

I realize that she is attempting to be humorous.  It seems to me that she is using one of two approaches to solicit laughs:

A) The idea that a woman somehow wants to be raped is entirely absurd, and therefore, comical. 

B) There is some sort of truth to her claim, and it is her presentation of this truth that is comical.

If A, then she must be living in an entirely different reality, for the mindset that women want unsolicited sexual encounters is all too prevalent in our society and contributes greatly to the culture of rape and assault.  The idea that a woman wants to be raped is not absurd in our world, and that fact is revolting.  Therefore, put lightly, Lee’s joke is in bad taste.

If B, then Lee is blatantly bolstering the fucked up perceptions that excuse and promote rape and sexual assault.

(Also, what could possibly make this woman suggest, even in sick humor, that she desires to be raped?  Desperately seeking external affirmation of her sexuality/beauty?  How warped…)

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