{"id":20189,"date":"2015-08-22T11:23:12","date_gmt":"2015-08-22T18:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=20189"},"modified":"2015-08-22T11:40:30","modified_gmt":"2015-08-22T18:40:30","slug":"wtf-new-york-post-rape-jokes-always-suck-even-about-child-molesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=20189","title":{"rendered":"WTF, New York Post? Why Are You Advocating Rape?"},"content":{"rendered":"

So famous dieter and Subway spokesman Jared Fogle has admitted<\/a> to paying minors for sex (which is, as I understand it, statutory rape) and having child pornography, and will spend between five and thirteen years in prison, as well as paying restitution of $100,000 each to 14 identified victims.<\/p>\n

This is the New York Post’s headline: “Enjoy A Foot Long In Jail.”<\/p>\n

\"jared-nypost\"<\/a>WTF, New York Post? What the fucking fuck?<\/p>\n

Rape jokes about prisoners (and usually about male prisoners) are commonplace and disgusting. And it’s notable that they often don’t just joke about rape, but implicitly endorse <\/em>rape. This headline isn’t merely joking about rape happening, it’s eagerly hoping<\/em> for rape to happen. It’s approving of rape as a form of punishment.<\/p>\n

(It’s also unoriginal and trite – it’s a joke that thousands of Twitter users and schoolyard wits made before the Post did – but the triteness doesn’t bother me.)<\/p>\n

What Fogle did was evil and inexcusable. But if he is raped in prison, that would also be evil and inexcusable. It’s not complicated.<\/p>\n

Here’s a handful of related links:<\/p>\n

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  1. Obama: We Need to Stop Making Jokes About Prison Rape | Mediaite<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Rape Should Not Part of the Penalty for Prisoners | Advocate.com<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Top 10 Alternatives to Today’s NY Post Headline<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. New York Post cover blasted over tasteless Jared Fogle ‘joke’ – Digiday<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. We Asked Prison Inmates How Jared Fogle Will Get Treated Behind Bars | VICE | United States<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. Stop the Jared Fogle \u201cfootlong\u201d jokes: Why do we still find prison rape acceptable, let alone funny? – Salon.com<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. The New York Post’s Subway Jared rape joke is awful\u2014but not just for the reason you think<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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