It's almost no surprise that it would be on House. But, when you think about it, South Park has been making child rape jokes for some time. Like in this one particular episode where Cartman basically said he gave a man a blowjob to get semen (he said he sucked it out a long tube). Butters has inferred that he's been molested by a male relative, and there's an episode where they show and state out right that Mr. Mackey was sexually assaulted by an adult during a school field trip as a child (which eventually led to him hoarding). And South Park is in its 15th season. And that last example is from an episode that's really recent - this season I think.
That's not to justify child rape or sexual trauma as acceptable, but South Park gets A LOT of attention for saying "Fuck you!" to boundaries and will pretty much air anything and everything they can get their hands on. Adults go crazy over the cursing and other sexually suggestive things: but making outright child rape jokes goes unnoticed. This is because, and I think someone mentioned it earlier, that people are in denial because child abuse is so prevalent. The rape statistic in the US is 1 in 3 women, and I'm sure that wouldn't be far off from child molestation numbers either. It's something that happens to so many people that it's overwhelming and it's really fucking frightening. People are scared but fear is the perfect breeding ground for silence. If a mother has been molested, the chances of her defending her child from it are very small. So it creates a system of sexual child abuse. And, despite (at least the US') obsession with "protecting" children, they're the most hyper-sexualized demographic. You won't show images of sex or nudity to small kids, but you'll let them walk and act like women at the age of 10. It's a culture of sexual power (for women) that's being passed down to children and adults are running around and wondering "why?" though they're the one who are perpetrating it. Child abuse hasn't done what racism and sexism has done: punched people in the face. People haven't learned to be pissed off at child abuse jokes, and children are the easiest of victims, and they lack the knowledge to understand what's happening to them. People, in general, are also afraid to fight what can be happening right under their noses. It's easy to have an outside enemy, but it's not so easy when your beloved family member/friend/colleague is a child molester and you have to make a choice. People crave a sense of "that would never have to me" even in the face of everything being the opposite.
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Date: 2011-01-25 09:22 pm (UTC)That's not to justify child rape or sexual trauma as acceptable, but South Park gets A LOT of attention for saying "Fuck you!" to boundaries and will pretty much air anything and everything they can get their hands on. Adults go crazy over the cursing and other sexually suggestive things: but making outright child rape jokes goes unnoticed. This is because, and I think someone mentioned it earlier, that people are in denial because child abuse is so prevalent. The rape statistic in the US is 1 in 3 women, and I'm sure that wouldn't be far off from child molestation numbers either. It's something that happens to so many people that it's overwhelming and it's really fucking frightening. People are scared but fear is the perfect breeding ground for silence. If a mother has been molested, the chances of her defending her child from it are very small. So it creates a system of sexual child abuse. And, despite (at least the US') obsession with "protecting" children, they're the most hyper-sexualized demographic. You won't show images of sex or nudity to small kids, but you'll let them walk and act like women at the age of 10. It's a culture of sexual power (for women) that's being passed down to children and adults are running around and wondering "why?" though they're the one who are perpetrating it. Child abuse hasn't done what racism and sexism has done: punched people in the face. People haven't learned to be pissed off at child abuse jokes, and children are the easiest of victims, and they lack the knowledge to understand what's happening to them. People, in general, are also afraid to fight what can be happening right under their noses. It's easy to have an outside enemy, but it's not so easy when your beloved family member/friend/colleague is a child molester and you have to make a choice. People crave a sense of "that would never have to me" even in the face of everything being the opposite.
PEOPLE ARE STUPID! D: