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Originally Posted by Derek Sutton
Jim Norton also always points out that for some reason it is okay in the movie industry for actors to portray rapists and you rarely (never?) hear of advertisers pulling out of movie deals because of such subjects. One would think that dramatizations of rape would have a much greater effect then a comic making a joke and referring to rape.
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The difference to me is that a rapist and/or rape in a movie is generally portrayed in a negative light. I don't think I've ever seen a movie where the rapist is a hero. Whereas in a rape joke it's "ha! Isn't rape/aren't rapists funny?" and so it's trivializing something serious that many women (and men) are effected by.