# 10-minute-long rape scenes are inappropriate workplace viewing.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-minute-long-rape-scenes-are-inappropriate-workplace-viewing/473144
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [November 17, 2008, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-minute-long-rape-scenes-are-inappropriate-workplace-viewing/473144 "2008-11-17T17:16:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@sjc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sjc)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2008, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-minute-long-rape-scenes-are-inappropriate-workplace-viewing/473144/121 "2008-11-24T03:34:36Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#):
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> I think she was going back and forth. But I may be mis-ascribing the things she said so quickly that I could not understand.
I re-listened with that in mind and what she says is “Laissez moi” (whatever the conjugation is) “Aiuto!” and “Sil vous plait”. I didn’t hear her say anything else. “Aiuto” is the only Italian.
I probably should have left it alone because that wasn’t a particularly nice thing to watch, but I study Italian and I wanted to be sure I understood what she said. Yech!
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### Author:  [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2008, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-minute-long-rape-scenes-are-inappropriate-workplace-viewing/473144/122 "2008-11-24T16:00:04Z")
> [@sjc](#):
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> I re-listened with that in mind and what she says is “Laissez moi” (whatever the conjugation is) “Aiuto!” and “Sil vous plait”. I didn’t hear her say anything else. “Aiuto” is the only Italian.
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> I probably should have left it alone because that wasn’t a particularly nice thing to watch, but I study Italian and I wanted to be sure I understood what she said. Yech!
Your French is better than mine. I can’t bear to watch it; I keep seeing my wife or one of my nieces.
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### Author:  [@Laudenum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laudenum)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2008, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-minute-long-rape-scenes-are-inappropriate-workplace-viewing/473144/123 "2008-11-24T17:05:41Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#):
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> Your French is better than mine. I can’t bear to watch it; I keep seeing my wife or one of my nieces.
Dude! Thats messed up!
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### Author:  [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2008, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-minute-long-rape-scenes-are-inappropriate-workplace-viewing/473144/124 "2008-11-24T17:35:55Z")
> [@Bricker](#):
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> “What guy?”
> [/indent]
OK, I love that story. Wasn’t it Eddie Murphy who did a bit about how once you figure out how to make a woman have a great orgasm, you can get away with anything?
“wasn’t me”
“I looked right in your face!”
“wasn’t me”
“welllll…maybe it wasn’t you…”
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### Author:  [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2008, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-minute-long-rape-scenes-are-inappropriate-workplace-viewing/473144/125 "2008-11-24T17:51:17Z")
Okay, but, what about a nine-minute-long rape scene? Is that appropriate workplace viewing?
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### Author:  [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2008, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-minute-long-rape-scenes-are-inappropriate-workplace-viewing/473144/126 "2008-11-25T00:15:52Z")
According to the 2005 Stockholm Convention on Appropriate Workplace Viewing, the cutoff is actually at 3:25, so this one is well over the limit.
ETA: That’s assuming the modifier of “stated intent to make the victim ugly”, which seems to be in play here.
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### Author:  [@greatshakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/greatshakes)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2008, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-minute-long-rape-scenes-are-inappropriate-workplace-viewing/473144/127 "2008-11-25T19:35:18Z")
> [@Quartz](#):
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> You’ll want to alert IT so they can retain the proxy server records.
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> I’ve been where you are and it’s not pleasant. That incident resulted in the offender being fired.
At my last job, just surfing the web, on break or not, was a firing offense. YMMV.
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### Author:  [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2008, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-minute-long-rape-scenes-are-inappropriate-workplace-viewing/473144/128 "2008-11-28T16:40:34Z")
> [@greatshakes](#):
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> At my last job, just surfing the web, on break or not, was a firing offense. YMMV.
Captain Nitwit’s job requires that he be able to go online, so that he may look at customer or potential customer’s websites in preparation for a call or during a call. I’m told that, before I started here, they tried web-blockers and found that it inhibited everyone’s work more than was worthwhile.
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### Author:  [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2008, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-minute-long-rape-scenes-are-inappropriate-workplace-viewing/473144/129 "2008-11-28T16:45:18Z")
> [@Laudenum](#):
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> Dude! Thats messed up!
It’s messed up that I possess the ability to feel empathy?
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