# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/101 "2011-01-14T21:07:47Z")
> [@miss\_elizabeth](#): > > Rather than typing out a long response, I will just agree with this. I don’t think anyone here considers themselves “pro-rape”. Much like “pro-abortion” I think there are few people anywhere who think that. I think even rapists would say rape is bad, but they would hand wave away what they’ve done as “not really rape,” and I think that’s the culture of the board a lot of times. So would you say the culture of this board is more wishy washy on rape than society at large? Maybe I’m not reading the right threads but I really really don’t have the same impression as you, Peeta and one side of Dio’s mouth seem to have. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/102 "2011-01-14T21:33:28Z")
> [@Mr.Excellent](#): > > I’ve got fifty-two cents, assorted pocket lint, and a couple of old antacid tablets. Will that do? What color is the lint? > [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > Women do not find rape jokes funny and usually view them as a sign of a disgusting man. Women also don’t like jokes about men cheating on their wives, and have pretty much the same view of the men who tell them. Don’t try to speak for me, ass. Apparently this will come as a shock to you, but “women” aren’t some monolithic group that share an identical sense of humor. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/103 "2011-01-14T21:36:48Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Don’t try to speak for me, ass. Apparently this will come as a shock to you, but “women” aren’t some monolithic group that share an identical sense of humor. Right? I’ll laugh at a rape joke or a man-cheating-on-wife joke, if it’s funny. Granted, most of the jokes in this category are tired and unfunny, but that’s true of a lot of topics. ---
**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, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/104 "2011-01-14T21:37:36Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > What color is the lint? Mostly black, with a few white specks. ---
**Author:** ![miss\_elizabeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@miss\_elizabeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/miss_elizabeth)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/105 "2011-01-14T21:38:05Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > So would you say the culture of this board is more wishy washy on rape than society at large? Maybe I’m not reading the right threads but I really really don’t have the same impression as you, Peeta and one side of Dio’s mouth seem to have. Nope, I find it pretty much just as bad as society at large. Which is fucked up, because we’re supposedly “the smartest board on the innernets”. I expect a higher quality of dialog here, and I usually get it, but not on this topic. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/106 "2011-01-14T21:47:12Z")
> [@Mr.Excellent](#): > > Mostly black, with a few white specks. Sounds like an aerial view of my neighborhood! Can you see one of the specks waving? ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/107 "2011-01-14T21:49:48Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > Right? I’ll laugh at a rape joke or a man-cheating-on-wife joke, if it’s funny. Granted, most of the jokes in this category are tired and unfunny, but that’s true of a lot of topics. Who’s telling the joke and in what company is also very important, too. > [@Mr.Excellent](#): > > Mostly black, with a few white specks. Keep the lint. Send the change and the antacids. ---
**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, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/108 "2011-01-14T21:55:24Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Sounds like an aerial view of my neighborhood! Can you see one of the specks waving? I think so - hi, **Vinyl Turnip**! Er … sorry about spilling curry on you earlier. > [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Keep the lint. Send the change and the antacids. Will do. Do you mind if I send **Vinyl Turnip** as well, if he or she wants to go? ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/109 "2011-01-14T21:58:24Z")
Um. Am I going to have to feed him? I think he’s married, too. I’m not sure I can support an entire family. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/110 "2011-01-14T22:02:16Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > Me too. Hey! That’s my line – I’m the only one who’s allowed to say that. 😃 ---
**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, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/111 "2011-01-14T22:15:50Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Um. Am I going to have to feed him? I think he’s married, too. I’m not sure I can support an entire family. I get the impression that **Vinyl Turnip** is employed, so I assume he can feed himself and his family without your help. But even if not - the man lives in my pocket lint. One assumes that a bit of chocolate or beef jerky would see him through for years. I also want to take a moment to note that it’s taken less than three full pages for this thread to go from rape to the care and feeding of lint people. We should all be very proud of ourselves for that. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Waxwinged](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c2a13f/32.png) [@Waxwinged](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waxwinged)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/112 "2011-01-14T22:19:43Z")
Just another person weighting in with no opinion on the OP whatsoever. (Though I’ll admit to seeing Skald’s posts all too often, and occasionally ignoring them.) Furthermore,\*\* bup\*\*'s joke was amusing. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/113 "2011-01-14T22:19:50Z")
Wait, is the lint a package deal? Or is he simply migrating to \*my \*lint. I’m horribly confused now. ---
**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, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/114 "2011-01-14T22:26:54Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Wait, is the lint a package deal? Or is he simply migrating to \*my \*lint. I’m horribly confused now. So am I. Gah, this is swiftly becoming stressful. I need some antacids … Oh dear. Those were _your_ antacids, weren’t they? How did we even get into this mess? ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/115 "2011-01-14T22:54:20Z")
> [@AqualungBats5th](#): > > This I agree with. However, my problem with Skald’s rape hypotheticals is how much lurid detail there is. How much thought he is clearly putting into the details of the rape. This is not to spur discussion about rape. It comes across as voyeuristic, frankly. I don’t see how it doesn’t come off at creepy. And honestly, a post like that first OP really ought to have a trigger warning on it or something. Oh, god, not trigger warnings. I find those even more abhorrent than ads with sound. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/116 "2011-01-14T22:56:53Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Oh, god, not trigger warnings. I find those even more abhorrent than ads with sound. That’s ridiculous. Ads with sound are a total abomination and when the revolution comes, the people responsible will be first against the wall. But trigger warnings are really annoying, too. Just not as annoying as ads with sound. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/117 "2011-01-14T22:59:15Z")
> [@Mr.Excellent](#): > > …I also want to take a moment to note that it’s taken less than three full pages for this thread to go from rape to the care and feeding of lint people. We should all be very proud of ourselves for that. 🙂 \ Oh, yeah. Lint people like that, you gotta feed _eeeeevery_ day. \ ---
**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, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/118 "2011-01-14T23:07:52Z")
> [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](#): > > I’m with those who a) hadn’t noticed; b) find **Skald** interesting and entertaining; and c) think that we all have our own private idaho hot buttons and it can sometimes be those that accuse who are sometimes obsessed. Aren’t you Skald’s ex-girlfriend who popped up in a thread where he mentioned you? Don’t you think it’s disingenuous not to mention that connection here? [You seem to share a similar style.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=12721848&postcount=7) Perhaps that is what attracted you to each other. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/119 "2011-01-15T00:34:27Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > So would you say the culture of this board is more wishy washy on rape than society at large? Maybe I’m not reading the right threads but I really really don’t have the same impression as you, Peeta **and one side of Dio’s mouth seem to have**. That’s gold, Jerry! Gold! > [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Don’t try to speak for me, ass. Apparently this will come as a shock to you, but “women” aren’t some monolithic group that share an identical sense of humor. Now now, don’t you worry your pretty little head about what’s funny and what’s not. One of the menfolk will tell you when you should laugh so you can concentrate on baking pies or sewing buttons or whatever the devil it is you women think about. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/120 "2011-01-15T00:39:18Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Oh, god, not trigger warnings. I find those even more abhorrent than ads with sound. Your stoicism is duly noted. Others very well may appreciate it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549.md?page=7)