Night, Seska!

I remember my nephew declaring girls more trouble than they were worth when he was in college.

My youngest brother has reached the same conclusion. Which, given his dating history, is understandable. (He has plenty of female friends, it's just that the ones with which there's a mutual attraction seem to be prone to such behaviour as moving back to South Africa to give their ex-boyfriend another chance.)

Hey Brainy types - I can use some help with verbiage.

I sent an email this morning to my radio station:

Please stop playing the song "Date Rape"! Rape is never funny or amusing. I can't begin to tell you how upset I was this morning when my alarm clock woke me with the line, "now he gets it in the behind" and I got to have it stuck in my head for the next half hour.

I have never personally been the victim of this kind of attack but it's still a major hot button issue for me. I can't imagine how it must affect listeners who have actually been through it.

I'm seriously considering changing all my radios to another station. I prefer your station's format to most other local stations but I cannot continue to be subjected to this foul song any longer.

Please remove this song from your playlists. Thank You.

And got this reply:

it is actually an anti-rape song...

we all agree rape is never funny or amusing, but the point is that if you rape anyone you will be raped in prison.

the message usually get thru to those people.

hit me back with your thoughts

So far my reply only consists of:

Yes, I get that "Act 2" of the song is the date rapist getting it too, but this is my point - that it's never funny. Not even when the guy "deserves" it.

And I can get any further. I'm not sure if it's just that it's such a hot button that I can't articulate how offensive I find it...or what. Anybody got any thoughts to help me wrap up my idea with some coherency...that it's not about sex, it's stealing power, that it's someone so pathetic they have to violate someone in the worst way they can to feel stronger...that, that, that... sputter.

Or am I reacting too strongly? I'm (semi)open to being talked down - but not by some guy at the radio station who thinks that prison rape is an acceptable denoument. Thoughts?

The plumber finally arrived just as I was trying to make the pizza. Now he is hopefully being tortured by the delicious smell of pizza.

I might leave it there, epic.

Unless you want to reiterate that the song may make you chose a different radio station.

that it's never funny. Not even when the guy "deserves" it.

ITA. It pisses me off when people talk about horrible criminals and how they're glad (or hoping) the criminals will be raped in prison. It's because so many people think that way that prison rape is never addressed as the major problem it is.

I don't believe in literal "eye for an eye" punishment, and I think if rape is intended as punishment it definitely falls in the category of "cruel and unusual."

that it's never funny. Not even when the guy "deserves" it.

100% true. Another aspect is that even if you buy the "it's anti rape because he gets it too" line (which, so much bullshit usually packed into that that I don't even want to get into it) is that for a lot of people who've been through this, I can only think this song must be incredibly triggering. I haven't heard the song, and I thankfully don't have a trigger response w/r/t references or descriptions of rape myself. But I know that for a lot of victims it's a big big issue. They're not going to listen to the end and go "oh well, okay then."

epic, I might add, that it's offensive in general, and that it might warrant a call to the FCC. If a costume malfunction is offensive, then that song has to be 10 times worse.

ION:

אנחנו Geeks! שיר ואני משחקים עם Google Translate.

oops. My geeky translation game with Shir killed the thread. Sorry about that.

I'm trying to read the Hebrew. Trying to figure out if it should be right to left or left to right. Going right to left, I've got "Google Translate Shir and I [something] people Geeks! we."