Grass and Crackers

My coworker created this logo…too funny

katoleary:

wannablessedbe:

Dear Jody Hill, Seth Rogen, Anna Faris, and all the assholes involved in greenlighting, producing, and marketing such utterly awful material:

We are not going to see “Observe and Report,” and I want to make things clear. I am not refusing to see it because it isn’t my type of movie, or because I am a person of delicate sensibilities who cannot handle “edgy” humour. I am refusing to see it because after reading numerous reviews and interviews with all of you that NOT EVEN ONE OF YOU thought very carefully or even, hell, at all about the issues involved in making a scene in which someone not only screws an unconscious person, but such act is “made okay” (per Mr. Rogen) because she drunkenly murmured something in the middle of the act.

Now, it may very well be possible to “joke” about rape in a subversive manner. On this question the members of this group may have individual views. However, we are united in the idea that this is NOT IT.

Envelope and taboo-breaking humour has its place, and we would not advocate that you be censored by some governmental entity. But please, don’t flatter yourself that such a disgusting and flippant attitude towards rape is anything “new” or “original.” You are playing to the crappy attitudes of your target audience (i.e., men in their teenage years and twenties, i.e. by and large that demographic to which many date rapists belong), and they make this kind of “joke” all the time, every day. You are more or less producing “humor” that shares a cleverness level with Rush Limbaugh’s and Don Imus’s. Congratulations.

If your aim was to prove that irredeemable assholes exist in the world, allow me to suggest that your point is really trite. Turn on the news. Just this week a couple of men killed their children.

We have sat through South Park, and I sat through Superbad, and we will sit through a hundred things in our lives that are based on what some of us would consider to be offensive humor, and in every single one of those cases thus far some glimmer of hope has been provided that such taboo-breakers were at the very least, SELF-AWARE about what they were doing, and that made a world of difference.

But in your case, all I see in your interviews is (a) a VERY confused attitude about what constitutes informed consent to sexual activity; and (b) an unwillingness to admit that this was all in shitty taste.

We are not advocating that you be censored by the government or anything so please don’t hysterically cry First Amendment or “artist’s prerogative.” These issues are irrelevant. But we wanted you to know why we will not see your movie, and we wanted you to know it was based on your own statements and characterization of your work. There is really nothing to be done at this point to make this better other than your movie flopping dreadfully, and the only way we can cause that to happen is not to go see it. And to encourage our friends and family not to. And to write screeds you probably won’t read anyway on Facebook.

But we’re gonna do what we can.

Sincerely,
The Members of this Group

The articles/blog posts that inspired this group:

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2009/04/does_seth_rogen_rape_anna_fari.html

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/sexist/2009/04/08/observe-and-reports-date-rape-apologism/

http://tigerbeatdown.blogspot.com/2009/04/um.html

http://www.avclub.com/articles/anna-faris,26245/

http://jezebel.com/5204177/is-date-rape-funny-seth-rogen-explains-it-all-for-you

P.S. If you disagree with this group, don’t join it. Buy your ticket to the movie and go. That can be your vote on whether it’s acceptable to be so goddamned flippant about rape.

Now that I’ve read the New York piece linked above, there isn’t much of a question in my mind that the rape scene in this movie is totally disrespectful toward and dismissive of victims of acquaintance rape. (Seriously, read the article, written by someone who actually saw the scene in question.) I will say that the commenters on the article did restore my faith in humanity slightly.

I would guess that most people who intend to see this movie know someone who has been a victim of this type of assault. Please reconsider whether this is the type of message about rape you wish to support, financially and otherwise.

I wasn’t going to see this movie anyway b/c I don’t think Seth Rogen is funny but this whole rape scene issue is just sickening… and sad

katoleary:

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Reblogging for obvious reasons. These stories are making me tear up.

We should all try to help these types of places in our areas. If you don’t have much money to give, donate a bag of dog or cat food or a few hours of your time. I personally would never be able to volunteer at one of those places because I would prolly try to adopt every one of those animals and invite them over to sleep in my bed. My boyfriend and 2 golden retrievers would very likely become frustrated with me.