Tag: Rape Culture

sheeparts:

HeartLinda: Discussion: Down with Molestia (Accusations)

heartlinda:

Here’s how I think DM should ideally treat supporters of “Ask Princess Molestia”:

“You should stop supporting APM because it normalizes rape.”

Instead, what I see is this:

“If you support APM, you support rape culture.”

The difference between the two is that the first allows people who…

If you support APM, you support rape culture because it normalizes rape. These aren’t unrelated.

It also encourages rapists by trivializing rape.

http://rajsivaraman.wordpress.com/2013/06/05/a-scientific-case-against-rape-jokes/

(I will never not take the chance to link this)

This is the sort of attitude I think DM should try to avoid. You’re not giving people an opportunity to consider why “Ask Princess Molestia” supports rape culture, because people might not realize it at first.

marlinsandthetrout:

(For my non-brony followers, there’s a movement in the fandom called “Down with Molestia” that is speaking out against a fan-meme that is Princess Celestia turned into a rapist named Princess Molestia, and a certain askprincessmolestia.tumblr.com blog that is riddled with rape jokes and rape culture). 

Down with Molestia is not about getting some blog taken down. It’s about speaking out about rape culture. The very fact that some people are saying “it’s not a big deal!” is an indicator that rape culture has been so deeply ingrained in you cretins that you don’t see what’s obviously wrong with it. 

The Molestia blog pokes fun at molestation and rapes and makes the victims the butt of the joke. Oh. the Princess just shoved her horn up that unsuspecting pony’s vagina. ISN’T THAT JUST SO FUNNY? ISN’T THE PRINCESS SUCH A FUNNY, LIKABLE SCAMP? HAHAHA. 

No. 

“Why are you getting so angry about a blog? Why don’t you go after someone else or go after bigger problems like starving children in Africa?" 

Again. This movement isn’t even directly about the blog for most people. The blog is a piece of rape culture, and the DWM movement is addressing rape culture as a whole. And why are YOU getting all mad at us for speaking up and not going and helping starving kids in Africa?

Also, the blog is drawn by a man who not only constantly makes rape jokes and molestation jokes but makes an offensive parody of the movement that began over his own blog. When he receives criticism, he laughs in our faces. That should be enough to tell you what a vile person he is.

I get this.