Not only is it victim-blaming, it's also objectifying of women since the caption reads "other than that".

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Eli, I noticed the objectification too... But I don't know if it's so much victim-blaming as victim-enjoying.

OMG that picture blew my mind. I agree with elithefeminist it is objectifying women and it has only gotten worse since then.

Eeeeeew. Why do they have to have that stupid grin on her face? (well, I know why) It's just gross.

I've actually seen worse than this. Once a friend snuck his dad's Penthouse (or Hustler, I can't remember) on the bus and a group of us were hiding out in the back flipping through and there was a cartoon of a white, female jogger in a park. She was being held down by a big black man (of course, who they felt the need to make as dark skinned as possible) behind a bush and the caption was "Help! Rape!" but the joke was that everyone else at the park were listening to their Walkmans, so they couldn't hear her. My friend kinda laughed and I just felt sick to my stomach for every reason you can think of.

The sick thing about it is that this ad in from Playboy from the 1950's! I would have never guessed that they would have been like that as a society, but I guess I am wrong.

But, the grin on the girl's face just makes me want to puke!

Coming back on topic: What gets me about this is that apprantely, the criminals broke into the office specifically to rape the woman ("Other than that they didn't touch anything" yeah, stay classy Playboy) or, they'd broken in for other reasons but were so "overcome" with the woman's beauty that they raped her and then forgot about the rest and took off. Either way the rape is still the point of the comic, which is beyond disturbing.

I want to pull out stuff like this the next time conservatives talk about the innocent good ol' days of the 1950s

Stomach-turning. Are we supposed to empathize with rapist, chuckle and say, "I'd get me a piece of that myself!"? Notice how they sex up the woman, but the man is plain as can be, as if to suggest she wanted it because she's a redhead "bombshell" stuck with a boring husband. Hee, hee, violation is funny! All pretty women need a good roll in the hay anyway! Such are the disgusting ideas put forth by this cartoon.

Her expression is creepy- it reminds me of the Joker's victims in the first Michael Keaton "Batman" movie. Are we sure the rapist didn't kill her and her face froze in that bizarre state?

Tobes, unfortunately, I don't think a lot of those types would be all that horrified.

Tobes--
Most of the conservatives I know would look at that and say, "yep, you can't make good jokes like that anymore, everybody's too 'politically correct.'" Same if it were a joke about a person of color or a disabled person or an LGBT person...they see nothing wrong with that kind of crap and wish it were more prevalent today.

Reminds me of what was, depressingly, my MOTHER's favorite joke for years: a nun (Mother always described her as "a little novice") is raped. She spends a long time telling the Mother Superior in graphic detail exactly what happened: after about the third repetition, MS tells the victim to go down to the kitchen and cut a lemon in half and suck on it. Nun: "Will that help, Mother?" MS: "No, but it'll wipe that smile off your face."

Yeah, there's no greater thrill in the world for a woman than being raped. She WANTED it, you see. Ha. Ha.

Ugh. I am sickened and repulsed.

Playboy, DIE IN A FIRE.

Mmm, roast pig.

To anyone who believes this is "vintage," you can continue to see things like this today in publications that don't care about "political correctness."

"No, but it'll wipe that smile off your face."

Holy shit. Never heard of that one.

"they see nothing wrong with that kind of crap and wish it were more prevalent today."

It is prevalent. It just requires that the comic be a member of the community they poke fun at. For example, Dave Chappelle, Margaret Cho, Josh Blue.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Blue
http://www.joshblue.com/

I think it was Feministing that first informed me of Josh Blue, and I clicked on his link. The sample videos were some of the funniest damned things I've seen. Only considered acceptable because of his own condition and who he is. I wonder if a "Delirious" era Eddie Murphy would be as wildly popular, or socially acceptable now, 25 years later.

You're absolutely right, "a male", when you point out that this sort of humor "requires that the comic be a member of the community they poke fun at". As Fred Clark over at Slacktivist has pointed out, "The transgressive humor of the underdog is funny. The transgressive "humor" of the upperdog is merely bullying. And that's not funny."

It has the same air of bizarre ignorance you get from war-time propaganda posters.

The only thing I find really disturbing is the cop checking out the rape victim.

I really don't see any way in which this joke would not be completely disgusting. I mean, it was Cactus Wren's mom who liked telling that joke about the raped nun so much, but it's still a God-awful, disgusting joke. Although yes, jokes poking fun at certain groups can be funny if told by group members.

Playboy objectify women? No way.

I'll guess that many people in the 50s would have been offended by this, but they wouldn't have analyzed it much further than classing it as "smut". That would be the difference between then and now.

Playboy objectify women? No way.

Honestly I think simply calling it "victim blaming" and a rape joke are over simplifying what's going on with that comic.

It's playing into the all to old narrative that they only time we women are allowed to enjoy sex is when it's forced upon us because "good girls don't do that".

I guess pictures really are worth a thousand words, cuz there's a lot going on in this one...

Oh, god! For some reason, I had to look at the full-size image to get it, but it's the HUSBAND, not the wife, saying that! That just adds a whole new ridiculously horrible level of sexism to it!