This crap just shows the public is apparently never satisfied with anything but the most gutter-level crap anymore. That's equally reflected in the fact the story title here is misleading, to sensationalize and draw attention! A "reality" show (at least EVERYONE YET PRODUCED) is about REALITY not a planed plot~that's called a "drama" (DUH). And as a result a ACTUAL "Rape Reality TV (Show)" would be one where potatial rapests were given the chance to actualy (in REALITY) rape an unsuspecting victom while it was being filmed! Thankfully that is NOT even CLOSE to the case, so why the totaly innacurate misleading story title??

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so why can't it be televised in drama form like any other crime? These issues are one that juries, victims, etc deal with in many rape cases. Its possible, whilst exploitation is the primary motive, some good could come out of it. Rape is the only crime, I can think of, where society/juries still try to 'blame the victim' although maybe this will change if more people see the experience of what trials are like.

ps: I hope there aren't any good Islamics on the jury! In some of their progressive moslem countries rape is used as punishment for licentcious behaviour- such as showing some ankle skin or being in public without an escort. Honour killings if, heaven forbid, the girl dates a non-muslim, has premarital sex, or 'dishonours' the family in any way. Often her own brother, father, or cousin, will actually commit the killing. Let's show that 'culture' on tv. Make good ratings I'm sure.....

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This shows how much we trivialize sexual violence. We want to make it into a game, into entertainment. And, we don't mind reinforcing well-documented rape myths that tell us that "women lie about rape," "cry rape to hurt a man," "she was after money." -- We hear these myths over and over again in the media and NOTHING about the TRUER reality: that girls and women DO experience sexual violence and assault as a ROUTINE part of their lives, AND that, while this often occurs at a personal level (mostly in the family), it is done to reinforce their subjugation under patriarchy (it is even state sanctioned a lot of times, see Bosnia, see Darfur). In short, rape is socially sanctioned.

In vehicles like this, media do their work to socially sanction rape. By covering rape as an individual "he said, she said" story. By focusing excessively on the possibility that girls and women are lying, in short putting her on trial. This happens in news media (which holds the tenet of balance so dear) and in entertainment media (which, ostensibly, is trying to reach an ever-more important female audience). So much for balance. By slandering alleged victims by publishing their names, constantly calling them accuser (which suggests that they are doing something to the defendant and also leaves out any possibility that they may have been victimized), and not alleged victim, by focusing more on the soundbytes given to them by the defense lawyers, etc., news media do the work that reproduces and sustains rape culture. I find it disgusting when I think about it. And, really telling of what we think about girls and women.

So, please don't say that this is innocent or that "some good may come of it." Yes, I'd like media to ACTUALLY address the problem of rape and sexual violence. I don't think they ever have done that. The few "feminist" storylines (e.g., on soap operas and Lifetime TV movies) depoliticize rape and focus only on it as an individual experience. By contending that a woman can get over rape and get revenge, they reinforce something that's actually very conservative: that rape is a "woman's problem" only: that individuals are responsible for being raped and for overcoming it, ideas that are fully in line with rape myths that women can't be raped, that it's her fault, etc.

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The proposed dramatization sounds about as appealing as Grigor Perelman explaining his solution to the Poincare conjecture.

I wonder why we aren't hearing from those former contributors to this site who convicted the Duke fraternity boys and, along with them, all the males in the world, without the necessity of even an investigation?

Why are men guilty until proved innocent? That’s the one hangover from the 60s and the feminine mystique that has earned a permanent blot on our US landscape.

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...how about they have the bright souls who came up with this idiot idea raped - just so they know what they're talking about?

Ian

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The abuse of women really has to stop being entertainment for the masses. Video games that reward you for killing prostitutes, movies that center on rape and torture, and now reality TV. It's too much. I'm sick of this rape culture we live in, and I'm sick of men making light of the topic, or using excuses that women swear out complaints to make money. That rarely happens, but people think it happens a lot because every rape victim is accused of lying.

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I knew this was coming. This is just another example of the Feminist Mystique.
The sad part is women as a whole do not deserve this. When I was younger there was one kind of rape--the kind when someone takes you into an alley and shoves a knife or gun to your throat.
Today there is Mike Tyson Rape (in which a beauty contestant is lying on a judge's bed at three in the morning
but she doesn't " expect anything to happen.")
There is Kobe Bryant rape where a hotel clerk takes a celebrity up to his room, solicits him and decides that she changes her mind as he is penetrating her.
Then there is date rape in which a young woman decides that "no" really meant "no," or really "kinda no," or maybe "somewhat no," or even "I don't know."
Then their is marital rape in which a husband is supposed to wait for sex and if he decides to become more adamant it is also rape.
Then there is minor rape in which a 17 year old is "raped" by an 18 year old.
This was all created by vaginally fixated Feminists. Most of us have come to the conclusion that women are so delusional
that they don't know what the hell they are talking about.
It has gotten so bad that if I were on a jury, one would have to produce battered pictures to prove rape.
For me to convict I would have to see massive physical trauma.
So who is the real victim here? The poor woman that is truly thrown into an alley and raped that is who. She will have to shoulder a far greater burden than she really should.
I certainly agree with the author that this is a national tragedy. But when she looks to someone to blame, she should look in the mirror--and to her radical feminist sisters.
They are the ones that trivialized the very serious crime of rape.

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