10-minute-long rape scenes are inappropriate workplace viewing.

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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About an hour ago I was at my desk, working on an extremely annoying report, when a young female colleague came by my desk and asked me if I minded following her. When I asked why, she said she needed a manager, and that I would immediately realize why when we got where we were going. I was tired of spreadsheets anyway, so I got up and followed her to the cube of a youg man I’ll call Captain Nitwit for reasons which will shortly be obvious.

Approaching the cube in question, I heard a woman’s voice screaming “Aiuto!”, which is Italian for “Help!” This was, I thought, curious, as we employ no native Italian speakers. So I peeked into Nitwit’s cube, I saw that he was watching a streaming video: particuarly, a clip from the movie Irreversible. I have not seen this movie in quite a while, but I instantly recognized the clip. It is, you see, very difficult to forget the ten-minute long, single-camera, one-shot scene in which Monica Bellucci’s carrier is accosted in a subway tunnel, stripped to the ground, brutally raped, and then beaten half to death. I decline to link to it here because (a) it is the very definition of NSFW and (b) I don’t want to see it again, thankyourverymuch.

Immediately I reached out, shut off the monitor, and killed the audio.

“What are you DOING?” Captain Nitwit said.

“Lower your voice,” I replied. “You can’t watch that at work.”

“Yes I can. I’m on break, and we’re allowed to watch videos on break unless they’re porn.”

“Dude!” I said. “You were watching Monica Bellucci being BEATEN and RAPED and LEFT FOR DEAD.”

“Well, yeah, but she’s not naked. All you can see is, like, half of one boob. And, um, her butt.”

“I’m not going to argue with you,” I said. “I got a complaint, and even if I hadn’t I’d have to stop it. Get up, go find an empty confererence room or something, and wait there till your manager arrives.”

“But you never SAID in training that we couldn’t watch stuff like this,” Captain Nitwit said. “Who complained? Why didn’t she come to me?”

“Shut up,” I said. “Conference room. Now.”

His boss should be here shortly. This should be interesting.

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So the Captain is sitting in some random empty conference room while you’re telling us about this? Did you at least leave a jelly doughnut or something to keep him company?

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Agreed, and keep us posted.

BTW, what kind of person goes out of his way to watch a scene like that, in isolation from its film context? Methinks you might have a sociopath on your hands.

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Looks like the Captain needs a refresher course on what makes for a hostile work environment. :rolleyes:

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Sheesh, you can get in trouble for the least little things nowadays.

:stuck_out_tongue:

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Lots of places require that all staff take a yearly course on sexual harassment and hostile work environments to help avoid potential lawsuits. It’s pretty amazing how many people think that they have to physically harass someone before it counts and that inappropriate decorations or asking someone out more than once are just fine.

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There are a few captain nitwits where I work too.

Mutilation, Beastality, and I would [edit: Not] be surprised if some child porn was watch by at least one (long since sacked) employee.

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I hesitate to use the word “sociopath” so quickly; how about “creepy nitwit”?

I’ll be generous and say he was just googling for “naked monica bellucci” and found that. Monica Bellucci naked is a good thing, but–Dude! She’s naked in all the damn time (a circumstance tht comes near to convincing me of the existence of a beneficient deity.

I’m told he went outside-perhaps to smoke, perchance to stew in his car, perchance to drive off in feckless fuckwitted rage. With any luck it’s the latter.

ETA: No, I didn’t give him a jelly donut. Donuts are my enemy. I saw one outside my house with a knife Saturda afternoon, so , as cowardly like an Etruscan, I went and hid.

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I was about to ask if it was that twit that was harrassing Skald’s wife and link to the thread. Then I noticed that you had posted it.

What are you? Some kind of nutjob magnet?

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No, just the nearest supervisor like person.

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The thing that’s confusing about rape is that it straddles sex, which we’re all raised from early childhood to view as filthy and immoral, unfit for public display, and violence, which is perfectly acceptable for daily consumption by children of all ages. So I can sympathize a little with your idiot co-worker; he was obviously enjoing the brutal, sadistic violence aspect of it.

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Good point. Big diff between Googling or YouTubing “Monica Bellucci [naked]” and searching for “rape scene”.

Well, depending on how worked up he got while watching the scene, he might not be merely “stewing” in his car… :eek:

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If somebody not at work is willing to google the former phrase, I’d be interested to see how far into the search results you must comb to find the scene in question. The movie’s name is Irreversible, if I didn’t say so.

And now I need brain bleach. The usual threats of revenge-by-man-eating-ducks apply

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Top of Page 10 of a regular Google web search. Most of the early pages are stories about Dakota Fanning and a film in which she portrayed a rape victim (age 12).

For an image search the second image returned is about Irreversible and how it faces a ban in Australia. First link is also a page of thumbnails from that movie, but not a good link for me (broken, not moral judgment).

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An image search on Monica Belluci (Safesearch Off) gives a lot of pretty fun pictures, but I didn’t initially find any linked to Irreversible. At least one seemed to link to a racist website called “Majority Rights”. Sometimes I forget that people like that are out there.

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Hmmm…putting in “Monica Belluci naked” got me a lot more hits that specifically linked to unsafe sites. While I couldn’t click on them (at work), the first couple looked to link to celebrity news archive…so if it’s something like that, he may have just been going down the list of video clips in order. shrug…still not something I’d be doing at work.

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“Monica Belluci nude” turns up a lot of good stuff on both a web search and an image search. The Irreversible scene didn’t turn up in the first several pages, but some hits promise “videos” so maybe it’s in one of those.

I’m not going to search for anything with the word “rape” in it. I’ve also declined to ever see that movie.

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Even going down the list, he was watching long enough to get the co workers attention and then for her to go to Skald and for both of them to walk back. My money is on some combination of clueless and asshole.

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Even if you were just looking for a regular, mainstream nakedmovie scene (something that anyone should know is still inappropriate at work), it would take like 3 seconds to figure out that a 10 minute rape scene was not what you were looking for and was not just inappropriate, but WILDLY inappropriate for a workplace. Then trying to argue with a supervisor takes it to another level of stupid.

The atmosphere it creates for coworkers would be regarded as patent harrassment at my company.

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Was this on Youtube? Someone want to try a Youtube search?