Dear Arlington Martin Parents: Rape Jokes Are Bad. Please Pay Attention.

RTGolden1 topcommenter

"Shhhhhh, just let it happen."

"What difference does it make?"

"Taking what we want."

"A stroke of a Pen. Law of the Land."

Seems like the slogans could be political as well as insinuating rape.

TheRuddSki topcommenter

This calls for a demonstration by Femen.

wordofawoman

"It would seem that the Bible belt has been unbuckled and the fly is now open. Heck, the pants may even be down around the ankles." http://wp.me/25Nfq

WhoisJohnGalt

Absolutely not a rape reference. People predisposed to take offense at the slightest sneeze will take offense.

holmantx topcommenter

Waffen SS soldier has an American down in a knife fight in a scene out of 'Saving Private Ryan' - Shsssssss, just let it happen - as he slides the bayonet into the American.

From a script translation: "The Nazi solider gains control and says two phrases in German. As he brings the bayonet down onto Mellish’s chest, he utters another two lines in German to Mellish. Then he slowly slides the bayonet into Mellish while quieting him with “Shhhh.” The next line, delivered as the Nazi begins to plunge in the bayonet, is, “Es ist einfacher für dich, viel einfacher.” In English: “It is simpler for you, much simpler.” The final line is, “Ist wenigstens gleich vorbei.” Jürgen says that in colloquial English this would be, “At least it will be over soon.”

I think that's where the phrase came from. Not from the Clayton Williams joke.

It makes more sense from a football warrior standpoint.

mavdog topcommenter

confusing...they are the Martin Warriors, but they use the pirate motif? and their emblem is a Native American in headdress, but their flag is sorta Jolly Roger with a skull and crossed swords?

and they claim their kids didn't mean to use a rape phrase, just coincidence...

just messed up in so many ways.

ColonelAngus

He was a peach, wasn't he?

When told of a Richards' claim that she trailed by only five percentage points, Williams replied: "I hope she hasn't started drinking again."

wcvemail

First! and first to remind that it was 1990 gubernatorial candidate Clayton Williams who explicitly likened unexpected bad weather to rape by saying, "If it's inevitable, just lay back and enjoy it." (He lost to Ann Richards.)

TheRuddSki topcommenter

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-10-06-rape-decline_N.htm

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/11/us/rising-voice-of-gun-ownership-is-female.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

John1073

@WhoisJohnGalt "Just let it happen" references rape. Pretty easy to Google it and look at the images that pop up for those who aren't down with the kids lingo these days. It's become a joke just like "that's gay" is a joking phrase but phrases and words have origins. It doesn't make it any less offensive.

ScottsMerkin topcommenter

@WhoisJohnGalt NO, there is only 1 absolute in life, death, the rest is up to interpretation

TheRuddSki topcommenter

@WhoisJohnGalt

Being an old man unfamiliar with the hip stuff like rape culture, the War on Women, etc., I didn't catch the reference either, but now I know not to shush anyone.

But the kids are hip, into the groove, they should know better.

bvckvs2

@WhoisJohnGalt

Do you have an alternate theory - or are you jumping to their defense out of complete ignorance?

TheCredibleHulk topcommenter

@holmantx

What about the "We take what we want" part? That sort of sets up the "shhhh" phrase and makes it pretty creepy.

That part wasn't in SPR.

PatrickWilliams moderator

@holmantx Oh. Well. THAT'S better then.

mdd0124

@mavdog Also, this shirt has like 17 fonts on it. So messed up.

wcvemail

@mavdog

Pirates on offense, but the defense are feather-Indian? Maybe special teams are vikings or something? Pirates starts with the same letter as Pawnee? "Mixed messaging" is what the marketeer would call it.

holmantx topcommenter

@TheRuddSki

Can't imagine where the kiddos would get something like that.

except maybe from osmosis.

Kind of like the Taos Hum. Drive down a street in Anywhere, USA, and suddenly you get this vibe. That turns into a vibration. Earthquake? Frackers? Nope!

Lyrics. And what lyrics are they? Rape gang lyrics, and proud of it.

So it might be from a juvenile's favorite love song. How sweet.

MattL11

@bvckvs2 @WhoisJohnGalt Must be the latter. For the life of me I don't see how it could be reasonably interpreted in any other way.

The_triplefake_Brandon_Eley

@TheCredibleHulk

I think the "shhhh..." is more creepy. "We take..." is comparable to "imposing their will", which I hear pretty frequently on NFL and CFB broadcasts.

TheRuddSki topcommenter

@TheCredibleHulk

One interpretation told to me was armed robbery, probably because of the pirate.

She was unaware of her slur on Somalis.

holmantx topcommenter

with a little research I could hang that on the Waffen SS also. go see the movie Fury. they did not take prisoners and we did not take them prisoner. besides check out the script or font used by the artist. Juvenal fixation and idolatry.

holmantx topcommenter

@PatrickWilliams @holmantx

No, it doesn't unfortunately. It's Ayran shit.

Corporal Mellish is Jewish

Google the Waffen SS insignia

markzero

@wcvemail @mavdog Seriously. It should be pirates, ninjas, and robots.

bvckvs2

@holmantx

If all you're hearing from rap and hip hop is "rape gang lyrics", it's probably being played by an OG, not a "juvenile". You should probably check yourself into one of those nice, safe old folks homes with the Muzak and pudding cups.

TheCredibleHulk topcommenter

@holmantx @TheRuddSki

Not like the down-home morality messages of the music we grew up with like Nugent's "Stanglehold".

Amirite?

TheRuddSki topcommenter

@holmantx

With children in the car, especially the girls, I learned long ago to roll up the windows and turn up the radio at red lights when I heard heavy bass approaching. Same with gassing up, and I never took them to the car wash.

TheRuddSki topcommenter

@MattL

I showed this graphic to 4 women family members this morning ranging from 14-60 yrs old. Not a one made a rape connection, they saw it as just a macho football thing. Just sayin'.

I chided them for their insensitivity.

TheRuddSki topcommenter

@holmantx

I assume you and others here have seen the vid of the fox...errr.... gal...errr... Womyn walking down the street in NYC for 10 hours attracting comments from males.

A writer at Slate pointed out something about that video which I can't repeat lest I be labeled racist, but you can see for yourself.

holmantx topcommenter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eouY2i7S5co

TheRuddSki topcommenter

@TheCredibleHulk

I was never a Nuge fan, dont know the song, but I think our generation was a bit more nuanced.

"Jump on my big ten inch (record on the jukebox). "She wants a pearl necklace". "Squeeze my lemon (till the juice runs down my leg)"

Well, maybe not all that nuanced.

holmantx topcommenter

@TheCredibleHulk @holmantx @TheRuddSki

As right as to assert music has never changed with regard to objectifying women.

bvckvs2

@TheRuddSki

That says a lot about your family.

blirnj

@TheRuddSki Thank heavens Patrick Williams has informed us of the permitted interpretation of this t-shirt.

MattL11

@TheRuddSki I mean, rape is kind of a "macho football thing," isn't it?

It's possible that my mind is irreversibly warped, I suppose.

holmantx topcommenter

@TheRuddSki Just watched it.

How did President Clinton say it? Or was it Carville on the second baseman spin regarding the Democrat 22 year old who refused to give Clinton a blow job?

Something about dragging a $100 bill through a trailer park.

I can pretty much guarantee you that level of harassment would not happen in downtown Dallas.

Some people just play rough because they can. I remember being in Houston in the aftermath of Katrina when 85,000 NOs moved in to wait for the illegals to clean up and rebuild their town.

A Houston cop said, "our gangs ain't got shit on their gangs." The Dallas cops, to a much lesser degree due to far less numbers, essentially said the same thing.

And worse than those animals are the dead-eyed baby killers coming up from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.

That's the next little present the President is going to give us after this stunning defeat at the polls on Tuesday.

Payback is a motherfucker.

And remember:

When anything goes, it’s women who lose. - Camille Paglia (b. 1947), U.S. author, critic, educator. Observer (London, 15 Dec. 1991).

TheCredibleHulk topcommenter

@TheRuddSki

I'll refrain from posting lyrics, but rest assured that he's every bit as charming and chivalrous as Lil' Wayne or Fiddy-Cent.

TheRuddSki topcommenter

@bvckvs

That says a lot about your family

They all graduated and contribute a lot to society in their work, make more money than you ever will, never had to live with mommy once they hit 18, and don't live in the same bedrooms they grew up in.

OTOH, they know about you and your failures and "koo-koo" brain from your multitudinous Internet profile pages. They 'specially like the all-male "Bill Maher watching parties" you are so excited about.

#whatafreak

TheRuddSki topcommenter

@MattL

I think maybe it's because none of the women/girls ever heard of Clayton Williams.

TheRuddSki topcommenter

@holmantx

I think Obama, having discovered that most Americans are too stupid to recognize majesterial greatness, don't speak French or understand how policies they dislike are actually good for them, plans on punishing us a bit more once he has more "flexibility" after the mid-terms.