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11/08/09
To that end, I just searched under groups for rape and found the following:
No idea if this is an in group joke or what [www.facebook.com]
Group is fine, comments are fucked up [www.facebook.com]
"Joke" [www.facebook.com]
"Facebook rape" [www.facebook.com]
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(there are a bunch of these groups)
Rape Islam [www.facebook.com]
Bro Rape [www.facebook.com] (again, there are a bunch of these)
Rape Club [www.facebook.com]
We stand for rape [www.facebook.com]
Where mutants rape you [www.facebook.com]
I don't even understand [www.facebook.com]
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Rape Squad [www.facebook.com]
Anal rape [www.facebook.com]
Team Rape [www.facebook.com]
Rake Rape [www.facebook.com]
Team Rape [www.facebook.com]
Free Rape [www.facebook.com]
I only made it through the first hundred and forty, but there are a bunch that are either questionable or flat out fucked up.
Groups with the word rapist in their title include these winners:
[www.facebook.com]
[www.facebook.com] #rapeculture
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I only made it through 10/135 #rapeculture
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I've reported, and NADA. I think that the internet is just a breeding ground for psychopaths, finally getting validation they wouldn't have seen otherwise. #rapeculture
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1. Do you have a stupid group that you think people won't be interested in? Find a way to name it so that the acronym is R.A.P.E. and you're instantly clever! Good job idiots!!
2. A disturbing number of Hahahaha Rape! groups have high school / secondary school kids as creators.
3. The worst offenders are at the beginning of the list, as you work through you get to many more Stop Rape and Men Against Rape and Rape Survivor groups. I hope this is because the shitty ones are newer, and that they're newer because they get banned.
4. A lot of Yawn Rape and [Animal] Rape and other things are supposedly cute. You can tell because there are a bajillion of these groups. Har har.
Worst offender was a group called "I rape" with this description:
If you catch someone from across the room and rape them, you can join I Rape.
If you've been caught, you have to leave the group.
And the recent news was:
Nick-1, brunette-0
So, obviously I would like to murder that person a lot.
Which leads to my question: the reporting format lets you report either the title or the basic info or the recent news or the wall posts, etc. So I wasn't sure if I should report pages for everything, or pick the most obvious and move on. In the interest of covering a lot of ground I chose the latter, but I'm not sure if it was the most effective.
And because there was one single site that made me laugh out loud, I'll leave you all with this:
[www.facebook.com] #rapeculture
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Oh. Wrong. Just top three displayed. Over 15 000 exist but I'm hoping the majority are anti-rape. I pray.
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Really the only way they could do a 99.9% no offensive content thing would be to screen all photos and posts. #rapeculture
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I mean, I've seen whole groups of Facebook users dedicated to reporting hate groups of certain stripes. I'm a member of one that looks out for homophobic groups, and a new group to report gets posted pretty much every day. And Facebook has only been able to remove about five of the ones we've targeted. I'm sure they're pretty swamped with these requests.
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I'm MUCH more upset at the people who participated in the group. #rapeculture
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Based on what I read, although I am horrified, I cannot say, particularly given the other things I keep seeing and seeing and seeing these days, that I'm surprised. #rapeculture
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A witch hunt is a search for witches or evidence of witchcraft, often involving moral panic, mass hysteria and lynching. The classical period of witchhunts in Europe falls into the Early Modern period or about 1480 to 1700, spanning the upheavals of the Reformation and the Thirty Years' War, resulting in an estimated 40,000 to 100,000 executions. The term "witch-hunt" is often used by analogy to refer to panic-induced searches for perceived wrong-doers other than witches. ([en.wikipedia.org])
Let me know if you need any more help understanding.
#thinkoftherapists #rapeculture
11/08/09
If they weren't advocating rape, then the group wouldn't have been taken down or censured. Sounds like the school has a problem with sexual violence and this was just another version of it. The article says it promoted and publicized rape culture.
That's not a witch hunt. #rapeculture
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If Facebook can take down photos of breastfeeding, they can certainly take down a group promoting rape.
I don't think anyone is saying we can't know or shouldn't know the details. I for one would like to, although I suspect it's going to be pretty ugly. I can't imagine a school admitting to a group like this existing if it didn't. It's hardly good press for it to get out that there's a culture of rape problem on campus, or that students and alumni took it public ot promote and condone it. That just doesn't make a lot of sense. #rapeculture
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There you go. Statutory, defined. Your group is now redundant and I invite you to cram it up your ass sideways.
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The idea that any group of young men think rape is okay, and encouraging rape is even better, is absolutely abhorrent. I hope action is taken against the students who are at the school currently. It probably won't be, but hey, I can hope. #rapeculture
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It's an all-male school, so I imagine they don't have anything on the books that addresses encouraging sexual violence; there might, though, be rules in place regarding student representation of the school's standards of morals and behavior in society. But with an admittedly misogynist culture firmly in place, it's why I said I can hope that something would be done to punish this sort of behavior, even if it's only in a "hey, you being a stupid asshole on the Internet damages our school's reputation" way. This is why I said I hoped action would be taken against current students, men who would fall under the school's jurisdiction.
(Again, I am fully aware that nothing will be done about this. The site no longer exists, and there's really no incentive for the school to take action against offending students, so... there you go.) #rapeculture
11/08/09
My high school suspended a kid for calling two of his teachers "hot" on a Facebook group, under the charge that it was "sexual harassment." If schools had suspend a kid for something that trivial involving Facebook, surely they can suspend a student for this. #rapeculture
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edit: Well, I didn't realize what Saint Paul's was. They may actually have a more stringent code of conduct that would actually deal with shit like this.
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It's like, if I made a website called "Drive Drunk" advocating drunk driving, or a facebook page that detailed how to make a bomb or how to make crystal meth, or how awesome it is to shoplift at target, I'd be advocating illegal behavior. But I can't actually even think of something comparable to rape, excluding other hate crimes. Like, a facebook page that was "Pro-murdering fags" or something. Because even something about how to build bombs wouldn't be targeting a specific, and oppressed, group.
And also you totally can get expelled from college for being an asshole. If you can get expelled for, say, cheating on an exam (not illegal), or not paying your tuition (not illegal), or throwing water balloons at the president of the university (not illegal and also my dad totally got expelled from university in the 70s for doing this), they why couldn't you get expelled for publicly encouraging rape? #rapeculture
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[www.usyd.edu.au]
St Pauls is an individual entity, so these fucksticks are going to have to be dealt with by the College. Who have a real elitist classist patriarchal WASP image to uphold, so hopefully they'll kick these mongrel students out. *I live in hope* #rapeculture
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I cast a look over some of the alumni of the college, and a few of them are people with a bit of clout amongst the younger demographic - if they started to denounce and rail and bitch and point out how wrong wrong wrong this all is, then maybe maybe there'll be a little change in attitudes. But today I'm cynical & bitter, so I don't expect change. #rapeculture
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But if they do delete things due to people notifiying them- and no one did this time, thats almost as upsetting. #rapeculture
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Fashion photography is not art, not in the strictest sense, because it has a commericial endevour beyond trying to sell you the image itself - it's trying to get you to pony up your hard earned cash for an item.
I don't care about depictions of death in art; I care when the violent murder of a woman is seen as a good way to get me to buy a new pair of jeans. #deadmodels
11/03/09
The frescos of the Sistine Chapel were only commissioned to attract more visitors and feed the Pope's sense of grandeur. Even Michelangelo resented his work there, but hey, he needed the money.
Not art in its strictest sense then? #deadmodels
11/03/09
However, Michelangelo was pissed about the commission because he was already working on sculptures for the Pope's tomb, not because he hated the church. And then he demanded to be able to do the work the way his vision told him to, not according to what the Church initially invisaged.
I didn't mean to suggest they lost their "artistic" value, but that there is clearly a divide between a work being created for its own self (art for art's sake) and to sell stuff. #deadmodels
11/02/09
All that death really makes me want boots! No, wait... #deadmodels