Rape jokes just aren't funny...

I suppose it's inevitable when a high-profile athlete or celebrity is accused of sexual assault that some will come out in defense of that celebrity by making light of rape as a concept.  After all, lowering expectations is a regular tactic used in public relations campaigns.

That said, I guess I shouldn't be surprised that #itaintrape became a "trending topic" on Da Twittah, but it's still horrid.  Cathy Gunderson sums it up better than I ever could:

Every day, another woman walks in Amy’s shoes. Or Hannah’s shoes. Even now, two and a half decades after my own experience, every day a victimized woman is afraid to tell. And why should she tell if the result is being branded with her own stigma? When the forces in place designed to help her don’t believe her? When tomorrow she winds up the butt of an insensitive, vulgar Twitter joke? “Amy” had her own fictionalized vengeance, and in doing so she absolved me of some of my own guilt.  In the real world, solutions don’t come so easily.

I have no tolerance for rape jokes, even prison rape jokes about Newt Gingrich.