# Skald the Rhymer, your fixation with rape is somewhat disturbing. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 14, 2011, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549 "2011-01-14T01:59:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AqualungBats5th](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6bbea6/32.png) [@AqualungBats5th](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AqualungBats5th)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/1 "2011-01-14T01:59:56Z")
As well all know, **Skald** has somewhat of a habit of posting long winded hypotheticals here. I’m not here to call out those in particular (though, frankly they are convoluted and stupid. So hopefully someone will at another time.), but rather that after reading the one you posted today: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=592933](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=592933), I got to thinking. What kind of person thinks up this stuff? I mean, just sitting around coming up with one thing like that is bad enough. But it occurred to me that your name and the concept of rape were vaguely connected in my brain for some reason. Well, it turns out you are thinking about it a lot. Which might explain it. Here you ask (and use rape as your sole example in the OP) whether consent is a defense in assaults: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=13130088](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=13130088) In another one of your hypotheticals you clarify your OP by using a rape example: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=12983000&postcount=5](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=12983000&postcount=5) Here you are wondering about whether rape victims have an ethical obligation to prosecute their rapists. Needed an answer fast? [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=12481288](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=12481288) Wondering what percentage of men would be rapists, ideally (what?): [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=547552](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=547552) And you can’t seem to help yourself but bring up rape in this one, even though it’s pretty much tangential to the OP: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=12835676](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=12835676) And I could go on and on and on, because doing a search for posts made by you that contain the word “rape” yields 13 PAGES of results. What the heck is your deal, dude? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/2 "2011-01-14T02:06:41Z")
Obligatory _Blazing Saddles_ reference. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Parker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@Richard\_Parker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Parker)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/3 "2011-01-14T02:11:18Z")
On the link I happened to click (percentage of rapists), your paraphrase of the OP is extremely misleading. Neither here nor there, I guess, but when you’re browsing on a phone, once you see one misleading claim, you tend to just give up. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/4 "2011-01-14T02:11:42Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > Obligatory _Blazing Saddles_ reference. I like rap, too. ---
**Author:** ![AqualungBats5th](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6bbea6/32.png) [@AqualungBats5th](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AqualungBats5th)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/5 "2011-01-14T02:14:47Z")
> [@Richard\_Parker](#): > > On the link I happened to click (percentage of rapists), your paraphrase of the OP is extremely misleading. Okay, I will cop to this one. I misread the intention of the word “ideal” in the OP. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/6 "2011-01-14T02:19:12Z")
> [@AqualungBats5th](#): > > And I could go on and on and on, because doing a search for posts made by you that contain the word “rape” yields 13 PAGES of results. The rape posts only make up one of those pages! The other 12 are about trapezes. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/7 "2011-01-14T02:22:17Z")
I just assume that all of **Slald the Rhymer** ’s posts are “research” for his “book”. Saves me a lot of time, as I don’t have to read them or respond to them. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/8 "2011-01-14T02:42:45Z")
This thread is gonna kill the hamsters. According to them I’m not as much into rape as **Skald** is but I like to fuck a whole lot more than him. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/9 "2011-01-14T02:48:07Z")
P.S. What is your page setting on? Cuz I only get 8 pages of **Skald** rape. Not telling how many pages of Biggirl fuck I get. Man, I got a foul mouth. Sorry hamsters. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/10 "2011-01-14T02:50:54Z")
If he wasn’t running that rapeseed farm, this wouldn’t be an issue. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/11 "2011-01-14T02:51:02Z")
Seriously? This, you put the guy for? Look - **Skald** posts bizarre hypos. That’s his thing. If you don’t like them, that’s your affair - though I think they’re well-written and entertaining, and it seems plenty of other Dopers do as well. Those threads often run two, three pages. With regard to rape in particular - again, **Skald** just posts a _lot_ of hypos. He posts threads on supervillains, time travel, which actresses one would like to spend time with, which Welshmen should be spared the obliteration of their country, pop culture - and so on. He’s a prolific poster. To point to a few out of of these many, many threads and claim there’s a fixation just doesn’t make sense. I could see it if most, or even a plurality, of his posts were on this topic - but that just isn’t so. You’re out of line, here. ---
**Author:** ![Myrnalene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Myrnalene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myrnalene)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/12 "2011-01-14T02:51:49Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > I just assume that all of **Slald the Rhymer** ’s posts are “research” for his “book”. Saves me a lot of time, as I don’t have to read them or respond to them. The OP is right. Skald is obsessed with rape / molestation / sexual humiliation of women. This will probably get this thread locked, since the events described happened offboard. But they lend credence to what Aqualung is saying here, and someone really needs to address the dude on this fixation. Skald is famous for coming into a space where members of the Dopeverse are gathered, and asking for help “writing” his “stories”. For some reason (which becomes apparent), he only solicited the opinions of the women there (as in addressing them individually by name and asking if they would “help” him). And the questions were generally about female sexual abuse or humiliation. This occurred many, many times over a span of several months. Questions included (and there were more that I don’t remember. Oh, and these might be triggering to some): 1. Hey, does this line in one of my stories make it sound like my character is threatening to rape his female prisoner with a dog? LOL I totally didn’t mean it that way! (This one was repeated several times, every time another women entered the conversation, until more than one person screamed at him to shut the fuck up). 2. Is a teenaged girl that was raped by her father still a virgin for ~magical purposes~? 3. Asking us to **imagine ourselves as the victims of sexual assault** and wanting to know if, when forced to kneel in a room full of men who want to rape us, we would kneel facing them or away from them. 4. Wanting to debate whether drugged rape is somehow not as bad as “violent” rape, and responding to comments that both are equally bad by saying he just wanted to be “fair”. To rapists. I don’t know if I’m actually conveying the creepiness of what he did. He specifically addressed these question to the woman, (and only the women) without any warning that the questions will be on a topic that is upsetting to many. You’d be having a pleasant conversation and them BOOM this guy comes in and suddenly the topic is your personal feelings on rape. Only if you were a lady, though. He wasn’t interested otherwise. He’s fucking gross. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/13 "2011-01-14T02:56:38Z")
> [@AqualungBats5th](#): > > Skald the Rhymer, your fixation with rape is somewhat disturbing. Well, that just means you’re supposed to strangle him telekinetically. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/14 "2011-01-14T03:01:52Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > Well, that just means you’re supposed to strangle him telekinetically. Ya mean, like Darth Vader does? Ooooooohhhh! ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/15 "2011-01-14T03:04:22Z")
> [@Myrnalene](#): > > The OP is right. Skald is obsessed with rape / molestation / sexual humiliation of women. This will probably get this thread locked, since the events described happened offboard. But they lend credence to what Aqualung is saying here, and someone really needs to address the dude on this fixation. > > Skald is famous for coming into a space where members of the Dopeverse are gathered, and asking for help “writing” his “stories”. For some reason (which becomes apparent), he only solicited the opinions of the women there (as in addressing them individually by name and asking if they would “help” him). And the questions were generally about female sexual abuse or humiliation. This occurred many, many times over a span of several months. > > Questions included (and there were more that I don’t remember. Oh, and these might be triggering to some): > > 1. Hey, does this line in one of my stories make it sound like my character is threatening to rape his female prisoner with a dog? LOL I totally didn’t mean it that way! (This one was repeated several times, every time another women entered the conversation, until more than one person screamed at him to shut the fuck up). > 2. Is a teenaged girl that was raped by her father still a virgin for ~magical purposes~? > 3. Asking us to **imagine ourselves as the victims of sexual assault** and wanting to know if, when forced to kneel in a room full of men who want to rape us, we would kneel facing them or away from them. > 4. Wanting to debate whether drugged rape is somehow not as bad as “violent” rape, and responding to comments that both are equally bad by saying he just wanted to be “fair”. To rapists. > > I don’t know if I’m actually conveying the creepiness of what he did. He specifically addressed these question to the woman, (and only the women) without any warning that the questions will be on a topic that is upsetting to many. You’d be having a pleasant conversation and them BOOM this guy comes in and suddenly the topic is your personal feelings on rape. Only if you were a lady, though. He wasn’t interested otherwise. > > He’s fucking gross. This sounds pretty bad, but in the interest if fairness, are you certain that it was really **Skald** and not somebody spoofing his Doper handle? That’s been known to happen before. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/16 "2011-01-14T03:07:35Z")
> [@Myrnalene](#): > > This will probably get this thread locked, since the events described happened offboard. No, but it will get you a mod note not to drag drama from other boards over here. Don’t do this again. ---
**Author:** ![Myrnalene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Myrnalene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myrnalene)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/17 "2011-01-14T03:09:04Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > This sounds pretty bad, but in the interest if fairness, are you certain that it was really **Skald** and not somebody spoofing his Doper handle? That’s been known to happen before. It was certainly Skald. His persona would be hard to spoof for that long, I think. He cross-posted some of the same things at the Dope and there, etc. If he chooses to post in this thread, he can confirm or deny, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/18 "2011-01-14T03:21:29Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > I just assume that all of **Slald the Rhymer** ’s posts are “research” for his “book”. Saves me a lot of time, as I don’t have to read them or respond to them. In fairness, some of them are for his book or inspired by (the book exists; I’ve done beta-reading on it). Whether or not that makes it less disturbing is still up to debate. I like Skald, but I don’t read all his hypotheticals either (of course, I don’t post much at all lately) If I posted all the random questions that pop in my mind about any of my stories I’m sure people would think I was disturbed as well. (My threads never seem to get the amount of traffic his do. I’m sure his persona helps in that regard.) ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/19 "2011-01-14T03:31:01Z")
Maybe somebody sent **Skald** [one of these](http://armedamerican.com/postpix/40_lb_box_of_rape.jpg) and he’s just been working his way through it. ---
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/20 "2011-01-14T04:42:16Z")
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