Rape: the ladies love it!
Trying to find the most offensive thing in a 1959 issue of Playboy is like trying to find the biggest asshole as a WWE sports entertainment event, but here’s one that struck both me and my boyfriend as… erm… Well, take a look:
What we have is the scene of a break in what looks like an office. A police officer is untying a man, while looking upon a young, dissheveled, deliriously happy looking woman, also tied up. The man is telling the officer that, “Other than that, they didn’t touch a thing!” Ha! I get it! She’s what they touched! So, what’s the lesson here? Women like to be raped! I mean, sure, they say they don’t, but they have to keep up appearances, right? They even like it from strange criminals who break into their place of work–that just makes it more exciting! How cute.
One of the interesting things about this cartoon is the style it’s drawn in; most of the cartoons in Playboy and other magazines, like Nightcap and Gent, are more stylized and modern (well, modern for 1959), but this one has a folksy, Norman Rockwell quality to it. Unlike the other cartoons, which are about glorifying life of sexist prickwads in the city, this one seems to be saying, “Rape: it’s American as apple pie! Get yourself a slice today!”
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Hmmm…I have a vague memory of either seeing this online or in perhaps a 60s-era Playboy I found in my grandparents house (I never asked who’s it was…) of a black’n'white cartoon where the man is clearly a mugger or a theif and he’s running away pulling on his clothes (with a mean look on his face) and a woman on the ground in dishevelment, saying “Wait, will you call me!”
The “joke” wouldn’t work if he wasn’t a mugger and she wasn’t raped.
That’s pretty awful. “Geez… even when I rape them, they STILL won’t leave me alone!” Blech.
Why do you assume the woman in the cartoon was raped? For all you know, she could have had a consensual shag with a guy who turned around and tried to rob the place, only to be thwarted.
Hm, I don’t know… The fact that she and her boss are both tied up? The fact that having sex with a strange criminal doesn’t really do much for most women? The fact that you’re thinking way too far into this cartoon than it warrants? In my experience, Occam’s Razor applies pretty much universally to one-panel cartoons.
The perp would have tied them up afterward. Besides, who says the woman didn’t know the criminal? Could be she and her boyfriend had a quickie, then he decided to make it look like a robbery so she wouldn’t get in trouble. Who knows? You’re assuming she was raped, but there’s no reason to do so. Quite the contrary.
You are waaaaa-hay overthinking this, dude. It’s a one-panel cartoon in a magazine where the vast majority of one-panel cartoons feature a woman being harassed or sexually assaulted in some way, shape or form. It doesn’t need some kind of complicated backstory. And the man says “they” didn’t touch a thing. So she scheduled a mid-day office gang bang?
The majority of cartoons in Playboy show women being sexually assaulted? Please.
Also, the word “they” is often used to describe one person, such as when John Connally said “My god, they’ll kill us all!” when Lee Harvey Oswald opened fire.
If anyone is overthinking this cartoon, it’s you. First you claim she’s raped, now it’s a gang-bang? This cartoon seems very similar to old jokes about traveling salesmen, as well as burlesque skits where a guy has a fling with a married woman, then comes up with some harebrained scheme to avoid getting caught or to B.S. his way out of trouble when he gets caught -like a plumber who claims he’s looking for a leaking pipe when he’s caught hiding under the bed by the woman’s husband.
Old and lame? Yes.
Advocating rape? I think not.
Whatevs. We’re just going to have to agree to disagree about this one. You’re the only person I know of who has seen this whose mind went to anything but rape. And speaking as someone who has recently read thirteen 50-year-old porno magazines, jokes about groping women and pulling off their clothes are extremely plentiful–there may be more about people cheating on their spouses, but it’s a tight race.
The smile on her face would have a different meaning if she would have used FemDefence.
Then, there would be a semblance of humor.
Hahaha… ah, that’s good.
To rape a lady is not an humanitrian act. While raping the ladies they will try to stop you. As soon as you are plsced between a aldy legs the trying to stop you will end. Putting the pen in the pen holder will give a mutual joy to both parties. Some ladies even will not let you stop making sex but to continue as much as you can. Shaking the pen in the ink pot will change raping to loving.