Rape apologism, racism, homophobia, words don't mean things, etc

Mar 13, 2011 13:40

Stamps on DeviantArt being...um...edgy.

Rape Apologism stamp ("I don't consider it rape if you were willfully wasted beyond remembering your own name." Sexism in author's note and comments. Also ableism; these people really seem to like the R-word.)

Racism Stamp (Warning: N-word is used, huge and spelled out in full; "Yeah, I just called you a [that word]. And?" Author's note is almost literally nothing but a list of sexist/racist/ableist/transphobic slurs.)

Poor, poor heterosexuals stamp ("Stop being HETEROPHOBIC" along with a nice homophobic author's note that also includes a really ableist slur)

Also, they're just expressing an ~*opinion*~ which means it magically doesn't harm anybody and they have a right to no disagreement, and by disagreeing with it I'm "just as bad" and "just as intolerant." Also, when you say that sexism harms women more than men, and that most rapists are men and most victims are women, you are being just as sexist as - if not more sexist than - a person saying that getting drunk means the rape was the victim's fault.

ETA: To be totally clear, the above is a sarcastic paraphrase of actual responses to me when I pointed out problematic stamps to the artists. Some from the artist hirself, others from white knights coming along to defend hir.

sexual assault, fucking assholes, go back to the 19th century, oh god shut the fuck up, double standards, victim blaming, sexism, homophobia, racism

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