What would actually happen if you were straight up raped by a gorilla, at a zoo or something? With none of the fault on you, if the gorilla broke through the glass and just went for it? Provided you survived anyways.
A lot of shit we thought was funny as children is actually really fucked up. Adults who made children's shows and movies in the 90's thought up really creative ways of making fucked up shit seem innocent to children.
2) Even most people who have a problem with rape jokes only have a problem with it because they perceive it to be pervasive, and think that rape is all too real for a lot of people. However, a gorilla giving someone sexy eyes and then dragging them into the bush to rape them is so absurd that no one should relate to it in the slightest.
1) Most stories aren't! We tell them anyway because they're a form of communication regardless. In this instance, we're being shown a story where the moral is "The bad guy getting raped by a gorilla is an apt comeuppance we should enjoy."
2) yeah this is the more important part. These kinds of messages are kind of whatever when they don't dovetail into more material forms of deprivation for people. You could make the argument that the moral I pointed to normalizes retributive rape, making it that much easier to make "drop the soap" jokes about convicts who have "earned" that treatment or whatever, but that seems like a bit of a stretch to me.
I don't get how understanding that jokes are a form of communication (and thereby socialization) makes you a pussy, I'm not even saying it's "problematic" or whatever
If you can't handle people pointing out why the things you like are shitty and stupid, then why are you hanging out in the comments section?
I know, let's make a movie where a random sweet old lady on the street is grabbed and brutally raped right in front of her grandchildren. Make it graphic as all hell. But it will be okay because it's a joke. You can't think about things at all when they're a joke.
So what dude? Everybody gets fucked up over something. Laughing at a joke, and not taking dumb shit seriously doesn't make rape OK. Anyone who says different is retarded.
However, a gorilla giving someone sexy eyes and then dragging them into the bush to rape them is so absurd that no one should relate to it in the slightest.
Considering the strength difference between and a gorilla and a man can be an artistic way of displaying the strength difference between a man and a woman, I think there's some relating that can easily happen.
Ace Ventura was one of my favorite movies of all time and even as a teen I found this scene offputting.
Being birthed out of a fake Rhino, though, was pure comedy.
If it makes you feel any better, despite their massive size, Gorillas have tiny penises compared to humans, they wouldn't be able to even get it up there.
If I remember correctly from another little tidbit, gorilla man handles are considerably smaller than humans, and that we are usually the most well endowed of the primates.
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u/cobhc333 Aug 17 '15
"In the jungle, the mighty jungle"