Opinion: Why Basketmouth’s rape joke is not funny
….If
your daughter or sister had come home with blood running down her legs
because some brute had seen her, not as a human being with feelings and
a physical body that hurts and bleeds, but as a vessel for his lust,
his rage, his disrespect….
The joke started with a comparison of African girls and while girls on a date where you diminished the African Woman to nothing if taken on a date.Would your joke be funny if your mother your sister, your aunt, your daughter had been raped? If your daughter or sister had come home with blood running down her legs because some brute had seen her, not as a human being with feelings and a physical body that hurts and bleeds, but as a vessel for his lust, his rage, his disrespect and his misogyny?
It’s sad to see over five thousand young people ‘Like’ that post, you are meant to be an advocate of good
behaviour, an ambassador to young people, a voice for several women (some have gone through one form of sexual abuse or the other) out there who buy tickets to your shows and support your work not the other way round.
We deserve more respect than what he made out of us.
Here is a munch screen of the post:
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