That movie (40 days) was horrible to begin with. Adding any kind of rape to it makes it that much worse.
I haven't seen Take Me Home Tonight.
There were 80s movies where male rape was played for laughs, especially in a farcical kind of way, like in Top Secret, where two guys are dressed in a cow costume. They have to cross a pasture. A calf milks one of the udders on the "cow." The guy in the back ends up getting something beneficial from the experience. When the two guys in the cow costume get finished with what they have to do, they can leave by some other way and don't even need the cow costume, but the guy who was in the back insists that they have to go back the way they came. This time, he's attacked by a bull. Later, we see the guy barely walking. When people ask him what happened, he tells them not to worry about it. This is all played for laughs. I may be off on the details. It's been 30 years since I've seen it.
Other movies show male rape to be funny, too, like "Something about Mary" and one of those Fokker movies.
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Mutant_Enemy_Girl
10 years ago
That cow thing made me chuckle, though, because cows can be very aggressive animals and really do that to people. There was another animal incident in Ace Ventura When Nature Calls where a guy meets a pretty amorous gorilla. But he was the bad guy, it was the 90s, and it always makes me laugh. I don't know. I think there's a difference between laughing at animals who can't control their instincts and people who usually know what they're doing for comedy. You get it.
Another huge bias showcasing of rape on a woman over a man is in True Blood. In the second season Sookie almost gets raped and I remember people complaining about that and saying how horrible it was but in later seasons Jason is tied to a bed and gang raped by a whole slew of women. And again, it was shown as if we were supposed to laugh. Then when he talked about it, it was basically dismissed and he never shown any signs of trauma over that when any one, no matter man or woman, would display some signs of PTSD after being held hostage and assualted over and over again.
That's why I usually roll my eyes when I hear sjw women complaining constantly about men supporting "rape culture" (a term I despise) but say nothing over the way male rape is handled by society or media unless it's a child. It's hypocrisy at its finest.
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