16: Rape Jokes Still Aren’t Funny
- Posted by Cara on July 26th, 2008 filed in day of blogs
Brownfemipower at La Chola has posted a video of asshole radio host “Jon Justice” molesting a paper mâché doll made to represent human rights activist and advocate for migrant families Isabel Garcia. BFP says:
I want people to see this for what it is–a white man feeling like he can control, humiliate, and imply sexual violence against a brown woman–all while be recorded for public broadcast. It’s about a white man controlling a woman who pissed him off, by mocking her race, by implying sexual control over her through the use of racist imagery and language.
The video below the jump.
Iylka has a partial transcript.
The implication of sexual violence is absolutely there, as he is fondling and making suggestive comments about a doll which is supposed to represent a real woman. He presumably does not have her consent, and does not care. He further employs racism in his degradation and threatening tactics. One particularly has to love his repeated “we’re not hate radio, we’re LOVE radio!” joke. Because of course, that’s what sexual violence is all about — love and not hate. No Jon. You were hate radio before, you still are, and you seem intent on kicking it up a notch.
July 26th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
Oh HELL I hate working Saturdays–I forgot you were doing Day of Blogs! Let me get something up to let folks know.
And thank you for jumping on this. You reach a lot of people.