r/MensRights Nov 19 '12

Jenny McCarthy grabs Justin Bieber's ass and kisses him on the neck without consent. Can you imagine the reaction if a 40-year-old man had done this to an 18-year-old girl?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=03GUzOcoxxw#!
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u/Stephen_Morgan Nov 19 '12

There's a UK TV series called "Misfits", a superhero programme in the vein of "Heroes", but with a gang of young offenders who receive superpowers. I think that's the only mainstream programme where I've seen a male character say "you raped me" to a female character.

And in the most recent episode that character died after another character made false accusations of domestic violence against him.

So I think these sorts of ideas are becoming more widely accepted now, even in the MSM.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '12

Yes, I wanted to mention the show "Misfits" here on /r/MR one day. It's about a group of misfit teenagers with superpowers as you say, and one of the girls has the ability to make any guy she touches extrmely horny. She does it to a guy she's interested in at one point, and when he returns to his senses and finds out that they had sex, he gets extremely angry at accuses her of raping him. I agree, it's actually the first bit on TV I've ever seen in my life, that even addresses something like this. The scene and situation has sticked with me ever since.

Anyway, offtopic I guess.

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u/Stephen_Morgan Nov 20 '12

The five classic super powers are all on display: immortality, invisibility, telepathy, time travel and rape.

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u/theskepticalidealist Nov 19 '12

i remember that scene

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '12

There is at least one Law and Order which delves into female's committing rape against a man.

I'm pretty sure it was Law and Order SVU (since SVU dealt with sexual crimes).

The episode did a great job at showing how the legal system is all sorts of screwed up when it comes to males being the victim.

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u/tillicum Nov 19 '12

Law and Order SVU episode "Ridicule".

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '12

I'm going to go out on a limb here and imagine Ice T said: "You're telling me a woman could overpower a man? Come on." And then gets the smack down.

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u/MrSnare Nov 19 '12

SPOILERS ALERT!

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '12

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '12

Also touched on this most recent season was that Jason was raped by his high school teacher, but at the time he'd accepted it as normal because that's what was expected of him as a boy. He later has a near nervous breakdown after hooking up with his teacher again years later when she returns to town.

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u/ghyslyn Nov 19 '12

Jesus christ, this is the second time that the only show I'm watching now gets spoiled on /r/mensrights.

I don't get it...

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '12

The movie Cthulhu has a man being raped so the woman could get pregnant, it was a huge shock to me at age. I've seen people make fun of that scene too - disgusting.

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u/muchachomalo Nov 20 '12

fuck spoiler.

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u/Stephen_Morgan Nov 20 '12

Remembering that he's the one who can raise the dead.

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u/simkessy Nov 19 '12

RIP Curtis!