Graphic ‘Comedy’ Spoof Mocks ‘Legitimate Rape’ Comment By Featuring Woman Being Sexually Assaulted
- Posted on August 30, 2012 at 2:32pm by
Billy Hallowell
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Actress Laura Napoli in a mock rape scene for Funny of Die (Photo Credit: YouTube)
Comedy is meant to spur laughter, but some jokes simply go too far. That’s the budding consensus concerning a new parody video put out by Funny ofrDie. Entitled, “Legitimate Rape,” the clip is intended to take aim at Rep. Todd Akin (R-Missouri) (read about his contentious remark here) and is made to look like your typical, run-of-the-mill pharmaceutical commercial.
So, what’s the controversy about, you ask? We’ll let Gawker — an outlet that typically has no qualms about edgy humor — tell you:
Co-penned by and starring motion-capture actress Laura Napoli, the pretend-ad for a form of birth control called “legitimate rape” features a mock-rape scene that may bring the whole thing a little too close to home for some.
Actress Laura Napoli being punched in the face during a mock rape video (Photo Credit: YouTube)
While Napoli speaks about “legitimate rape” in the mock ad, it is made to look like she is very literally being raped by an assailant who is dressed in black. The disturbing satirical scenario depicts the actress being knocked to the ground, where the horrific incident takes place. Later, she is punched in the face, further perpetuating a theme of violence.
Gawker called the ad “unrepentantly brutal.” Watch it, below, to decide for yourself whether or not Funny of Die went too far in staging the rape scene:
There are some other moments to note as well. A fake disclaimer in the video also pokes fun at Akin, vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan and others who weighed in on the legal definition of rape back in 2011. Here’s a screen shot showing that portion of the ad:
Photo Credit: YouTube
The video is also being advertised on Facebook on a targeted fan page with a slogan that reads, “We’re not Akin this up.” A description for the clip continues: “Do you suffer from Sexually Liberated Uterine Tendencies? Now there’s a treatment that can help.”
Oddly, after using rape as a tool to poke fun at Akin and Republicans, the video concludes with the line, “Sexual assault is a serious issue. If you need help visit www.RAINN.org…” Then, it notes that the production was not endorsed by RAINN (Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network) or any politician or organization, for that matter.
Photo Credit: YouTube
The final screen, though, is sure to present an image advertising the Facebook fan page for the ad as well as a hashtag that people can purportedly use to make it go viral (#LegitimateRapeAd).
What do you think? Too far? Let us know in the comments section, below.
(H/T: Gawker)
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Comments (63)
HI_Don
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 5:34pmLiberal platform: Let rapists and killers live (anti-death penalty as lethal injection is too cruel for such nice folks). Let babies get horribly and cruelly murdered through dismemberment and torture (pro-late term and partial birth abortion based on a sixteen year old’s desire not to have to change diapers and have unlimited unprotected sex.)
Yea, I can see where that kind of logic should rule the world and be considered a legitimate thought process. Combine that with taking a single sentence misspoken or misquoted for that matter, to slander your opponent with disregard to actual and long term evidence of intent and record and you have a living organism (probably not human) that not just anyone would vote for and someone who would produce a “ad” as disgusting and misleading as this at the expense of the legitimate rape victims of the world. Real class lefties. It takes a special kind of person to favor this kind of platform and tactics I like to call “clueless”.
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 9:09pmI am looking forward to the return of sanity and the end of the Obamanation
Report Post »schroeder123
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 5:02pmWell, That was funny.
Report Post »v15
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:25amI have a dark sense of humor but I didn’t think it was funny. But I wasn’t really shocked by it……I think so much **** has happened throughout the world these past 4 years that I’m almost completely desensitized.
Report Post »JesterJay
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 1:34amHahah “Ask your doctor if its right for you” Sorry I think this is funny.
Report Post »Totally Domestic
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 5:02pmWow! What does Paul Ryan have to do with it?
Ryan derangement syndrome is becoming an epidemic!!!
Report Post »nonliberal
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 4:50pmAre we going to keep driving this topic all the way to the election?? He will not get out of the race no matter how much you want him to, he has already bounced back in the polls to a dead heat with Claire. He made all the apologies he can make.
Report Post »Let’s drop it so we can have his strong conservative vote to overturn Obamacare. Keep your eye on the prize and don’t let the libs change the subject.
DogTags
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 5:52pmIt distresses me that when Republicans merely misspeak other Republicans demand his head. When Democrats commit crimes Democrats defend them to the death.
Report Post »Wrabbit2000
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 4:44pmI honestly wonder how many of the millions of “legitimate” rape victims found this to be anything but offensive. I’m male. I’ve only spoken with a number of women in my life who have endured this without satire being the tag line description and even I find it patently offensive. It’s about as appropriate as the use of the Twin Towers in Satire or a Political ads. Some subjects just don’t lend themselves to that sort of messaging, in my humble opinion.
Report Post »bedspirit
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 8:47pmso it’s the satire that offensive and not the real life comment that sparked it? PARTISAN HACKS!
Report Post »raybojabo
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 4:35pmI thought it was called the Todd Akin Method for Birth Control. He said it, let him own it. I knew those drunk Missouri hillbillies blew it again when they nominated another old puffy white guy instead of Sarah Steelman.
Report Post »rjeffw
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 4:17pmDoes anybody not understand what he said? This just gets me. I feel that what is was referring to is that some women cry “rape” when there were in fact not raped and are just getting back at the dude. What I think he means is a woman who was actually attacked against her will. There is nothing wrong with that statement. Oh and Encinom, what is wrong with being the party that fights for life? Why oh why would you want to be for the party that supports death. So the woman has to live with the seed of the rape, why do you want to punish the little soul that is the product of the rape. If the baby is not wanted then adopt it out. Why do democrats want to result to killing first thing. I don’t get that. The democrats are for the most part the party of all that is wrong and vile in this world.
Report Post »lfoa
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 7:06amThat’s how I “heard” it too….
If an abortion was only “legal” in cases of rape and incest….
Do you not think that the cases of fake rape claims would rise?
Just so the women could get an abortion… I say YES…
Thus the statement ….
Do you not think that the cases of illegitimate rape claims would rise?
And my point is…
Report Post »A “legitimate” rape is one that isn’t a “fake” claim….
sandrarama
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 4:04pmAlthough I don’t support what Akin did say, he DID NOT say that rape was legitimate. Can we just move on to the lesser important issues, like 23 million unemployed Americans, 1200 days without a budget, 16 trillion debt, 8% unemployment for 41 months??? Do we really need to avoid Obama’s record at all costs?
Report Post »SocialistSlayer
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 4:15pmThe Communists are just trying to change the real subject – that Hussein obama is a Communist and a Failure!
Report Post »Locked
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 4:22pm@Sandra
“he DID NOT say that rape was legitimate.”
This is true, but I don‘t think I’ve ever heard a single person claim he did say that.
“Can we just move on to the lesser important issues, like 23 million unemployed Americans, 1200 days without a budget, 16 trillion debt, 8% unemployment for 41 months???”
I’d argue they are more important, but I agree!
Report Post »TheNonSilentMajority54
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 6:42pmYou mean to say that “TheHack Insane Owe-bama” is NOT doing a good job?…Say it isn’t so…I’m with you and I believe many Americans have woken up. RORY 2012
Report Post »NineteenEighty4
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 3:34pmMore hate and distortion from the Left. Is anyone surprised? They’re the ones responsible for the moral degradation of this country. Only they would politicize one of the most horrible crimes imaginable.
Report Post »starman70
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 3:34pmThis is a lurid and gross piece of “Comedy”. The real problem is that it might stir up a real rapist to emulate the video.
Report Post »Dishevel
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 4:30pm@Starman70.
Report Post »Look I am a conservative. Please do not go to the this ad is vile because it could encourage a rapist.
Please go join your brethren on the left. The ad is wrong headed. The ad is a little bit funny as well.
People like you though are idiots. I am sure that you think you believe in personal responsibility.
Till it comes to a TV show or a video game or a commercial you do not like.
Then some who goes out and shoots or rapes people are not the problem it was the game they were playing or the commercial they watched.
I think you “Just found out” you were a democrat.
TheBurningTruth
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 3:27pmThe odd part is that the only large organized group anywhere the believes in “Legitimate Rape” are Muslims and the political party bending over backwards (pun intended) is the Demoncratic party. If many women put those two facts together, then they‘d realize that it’s the Demoncrats who have the “War on Women”. The only logical conclusion is that Akin is really a Demoncrat and these attacks are designed to deflect that reality.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 3:34pmDon’t forget Ryan, Akin and the rest of the far right Christians that pushed for this legal definition.
Report Post »Tri-ox
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 3:25pmThe left is obsessed with rape and abortion.
Report Post »OniKaze
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 3:25pmI wonder… If the girl in this video EVER get raped, will she think back about this, and realize that her part in this ad helped fuel the acceptance of rape???
NO Republicans or Conservatives think rape is acceptable… I wonder what Bill Clinton REALLY thinks about rape???
Report Post »encinom
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 3:36pmNo, the GOP just doesn’t think all rapes are created equal some are legitimate and some are not. The GOP also believes that the victims should be punished by carrying the spawn of her rapist.
Report Post »OniKaze
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 3:24pmNothing like making a joke about a very serious matter…..
Mantra of the Left… Expose something until it becomes a widely accepted Joke…
Disgusting.
Report Post »BlessedONE333
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 3:22pmIt is a deviant and reprobate mind that believes the term ‘legitimate’ meant to describe the RAPIST and not the woman ‘claiming’ rape. Only a deviant mind believes that any Republicans on the list WANT rape or believe that sex is just something to hurt woman with.
2 Timothy 3:8
Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
Liberals want you to be swayed by the term ‘rape’ plus ‘legitimate’ and not by Swayed by the truth that some women LIE. They do it out of weakness and usually some sort of deviant thoughts which lead them to want to HURT OTHERS or THEMSELVES. Anger and un-forgiveness are the common theme to these issues.
Wisdom is not in the liberal mind, they are pure emotional reaction and irrational statements. They are described well by the Word of God
Romans 1:
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, [edit]
32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same,
Report Post »Locked
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 3:12pm“So, what’s the controversy about, you ask? We’ll let Gawker — an outlet that typically has no qualms about edgy humor — tell you:
Co-penned by and starring motion-capture actress Laura Napoli, the pretend-ad for a form of birth control called “legitimate rape” features a mock-rape scene that may bring the whole thing a little too close to home for some.”
Yeah… that wasn‘t Gawker’s position. They end the article with this quote:
“It isn’t supposed to be satire. Satire is when you take a real situation to the extreme for humor. This situation literally is what Akin and other repubs tried to write into law, and is what is on the GOP plank.”
I think it’s incredibly distasteful. Then again, I also think Akin should have been kicked out of the race precisely BECAUSE this kind of response was obviously going to happen. And a good amount of folks disagreed, said Akin was right and are glad he stayed in the race. I’m guessing they really cannot find much “wrong” with this video… and are likely nodding along silently with the “Disclaimer” graphic.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 3:01pmIs that Alan Harper’s first wife from 2 and 1/2 Men?
Report Post »MrKnowItAll
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 3:01pmOnly thing Correct about this video is the Punch to her Head! Bam! Stop this Stupidity. Beauty is skin deep, but Ugly is to the bone.
Report Post »GodHatesFigs
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 4:03pmYou are a disgusting human being.
Report Post »Git-R-Done
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 4:52pmGod – You’re one to talk about disgusting human beings.
Report Post »GodHatesFigs
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 5:38pmHow is that? You never respond to my comments responding to you. You just drop by, hurl insults, then run away and never back them up.
Report Post »republic2011
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 2:57pmIdiots and liars.
Report Post »cbotrader
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 2:54pmThe sad part of all this is that what was meant by the term “legitimate rape” was in reference to laws allowing abortion only in the case of rape, many women CLAIM rape in order to be allowed to have an abortion under the existing law when in reality they were not raped and the intercourse was consensual.
The congress messed this up a bit and the press took off and ran with it…..this whole thing is stupid but then again, so is most of the country today.
Report Post »alex242004
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 3:23pmdamn straight! most of the country is stupid listening to the LSM
Report Post »GodHatesFigs
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 4:05pmNo woman needs to claim rape in order to get an abortion. Abortion is a legal medical procedure.
Report Post »term limits for congress
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 2:50pmWhy did they use this chick in the video? Sandra Fluck not available?
I noticed she’s wearing a pink shirt. Would have been funnier if she wore one of those Code Pink vaj costumes.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 3:02pmI think Sandra went back to vacation in Spain again
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 2:46pmI’ll go with a bell curve argument. When women are raped some women are aroused. They can’t help it & they feel crappy afterwards & confused. Still angry & rightfully so but confused.
At the other end of the bell curve (tail) some women probably shut down. I would figure this is not a perfect bell curve . I would expect the former tail to be fatter than the other one.
Akins was stupid for saying what we was saying. There are cases of what he said but they are rare & furthermore it was a leftist group that 1st came up with that theory in the 70s.
Report Post »GodHatesFigs
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 4:07pmYou need to do some more research. You are highly misinformed.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 4:28pmGodHatesFigs
Report Post »You need to do some more research.
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Yes because whenever science reaches a consensus that it. they are never wrong.
GodHatesFigs
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 4:51pmWhen science reaches a consensus, they are usually closer to the truth than some person on the internet who makes bald assertions.
Report Post »The_Cabrito_Goat
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:55pmThat’s assuming science does not hope to influence public policy to mirror their political bent. That‘s not to say there aren’t any legitimate scientists left, however. But they risk censure in their departments for even thinking of being skeptical of the obnoxious minority of scientists who use their office and title of “expert” to, as I said before, influence public policy.
Report Post »oldasdirt
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 2:43pmLet a Republican slip up and say something stupid,and even after admitting it was wrong,get chastised by the left.Over and over,like beating a dead horse. But if Done by a liberal,“Nothing to see here” attitude. This add my even make some liberals see the double standard applied by democrats.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 2:42pmI think that one Died. So I wonder if that is why no one gets pregnant from Prison Rape.
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 2:37pmNow, if they would only spoof the damage done by false claims of rape, the real illegitimate rape.
Report Post »johnjamison
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 2:41pmexactly
Report Post »johnjamison
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 2:43pmThey could get Kobe he has first hand experience in illegitimate rape
Report Post »Want our country back
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 2:49pmWhat a phoney outrage of this one statement. Boy do they know how to make it work to their advantage. Shameless.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 3:01pmThere is an entire Lacrosse team that can testify to that. Even those who were not present when the “event” never happened.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 3:17pm“Now, if they would only spoof the damage done by false claims of rape, the real illegitimate rape.”
The 3% of women who lie about rape (official FBI crime statistics, in case you want to research for yourselves) do not make the rest liars, @The_Jerk. Women who lie about being raped should be charged with filing a false police report and be held liable in civil court so the wrongly accused can sue them for emotional trauma.
Oh wait. They already are. Meanwhile, only 25% of raped women will ever see their rapist arrested.
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