Forrest Griffin Apologizes for Twitter Rape Joke, Donates to Rape Crisis Center

I always flinch a bit when someone says: “so and so is going to rape him in the cage”

Not sure if it’s different than saying he’s going to kill him, but it just is…to me. It’s incredibly insensitive, and if they knew how rape changes someone’s life, they wouldn’t use the word so flippantly.
I’m glad Forrest came to his senses, it’s too bad that he hadn’t knows how stupid it is to make light of it before, but hey, we all have to learn, some the hard way.

that the very people emailing you about posting an article on this particular subject would then in turn wish rape upon your family. ’Merica, FUCK YEAHHHHH!!!

he would donate more money than that.

I guess that’s what you get when you have anonymity on the internet. It’s really sad, hopefully some of those e-mails are linked to their accounts on this website so you can ban them.

I agree 100%. When are we, as a society, going to realize we CANT say things we want to say if its going to hurt anyone’s feelings or offened people. Once we all realize this we can move on as a progressive society.

I could understand if it came from one of my friends you know (shooting the shit etc., because i would have took it as a joke and laughed at it) but NO, this came from a guy that comes out in national televised tv programming and is a celebrity, so he is held to a very different standard to the rest of us every day people.

that is until I read the comments left by those defending Forrest on Brent’s original article detailing and criticizing the tweets. It really does make me wonder about the average IQ of my fellow fans after seeing some of their responses.

Granted, I’m a little older than the stated average fan (50), but it doesn’t give me a lot of hope about the future of this sport when so many seem to fall into the very stereotypes that MMA’s biggest critics mention.

Kudos Brent for sticking by your values and reporting the issue when other popular fansites chose to ignore the issue.

That said, everyone says things they shouldn’t and I would chuck this up as one of those times. I’m sure Forrest didn’t mean to to hurt/offend anyone with his tweet. In addition, the whole thing got blown out of proportion because he had tens of thousands of followers and is a public persona. He apologized and now it’s time for all of us to move on.

Thanks, Brent, for speaking the truth and insisting that we grow beyond our disgusting little habits and excuses. You and other journalists have helped begin the necessary discourse on the presence of rape culture within the ranks of MMA. You are in the right. Stand tall.

http://yesmeansyesblog.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/this-is-what-rape-culture-looks-like/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_culture

http://www.marshall.edu/wpmu/wcenter/sexual-assault/rape-culture/

just trying to light up the mood

I applaud Forrest for his apology and gesture, it’s a step in the right direction. As for the idiots who sent those email and left those comments.

Die in a fire

welcome to P.C. America….what a crock of BS with this fake apology crap…reminds me of Anthony Weiner’s apology, he’s only sorry he got caught not for what he actually did. Stick to your guns Forrest

When you actually get the comment, it’s actually quite intelligent (and to the idiots, no i don’t mean rape is intelligent) – something not common coming from Forrest. If you have to build the ‘joke’ up or explain the whole fckn thing to someone, it takes away from the intelligence of the comment. Some of the best jokes/quotes are quick statements, not full paragraphs.

All is well again. No one will ever again get raped or molested. What the media pays attention to for a week or so to generate ratings and then they forget that these things happen once some other news worthy event takes its place. Just a bunch of leeches. No one cares once its out of the news cycle.

If we are all going to be truly honest with ourselves, let’s admit that amongst our closest friends / family we all say or joke about things that are politically incorrect. I’m pretty sure that in locker rooms (both men’s and women’s) and bars across the country people are not just talking about the weather. Topics such as homosexuality, rape, violence, abortion and sex probably come up all the time, and are probably not discussed in a civilized manner. Does that make us bad people? I don’t think so. Who doesn’t look forward to good times and “off-hand” jokes amongst their closest friends?

In this current world of social media and instantaneous information, you have to know that a comment like Forrest’s would be unacceptable. Facebook and Twitter may be great tools for social networking and making so called “friends”, but you can’t truly be yourself with it and you are not really among 175,000 “friends”.

With the UFC going on network television tomorrow, things will likely get crazier for many of the popular UFC fighters. Welcome to celebrity-status, where your every statement and Tweet made will be scutinized by the media, who are just waiting for you to screw up.

I think she got off easy.

But I’d like to think I disagreed respectfully and intelligently. That “daughter gang rape” is really twisted.

I’ll be the first to admit that I have an extremely dark and cruel sense of humor, hence why the initial “joke” didn’t bother me in the least. But reading that someone emailed that comment to Brent made my skin crawl.

The Yahoo comments I read weren’t as bad as you make it seem, though, unless the really severe ones were deleted. Most that I saw disagreed were more sarcastic and clever. I had a really good laugh at a few, particularly the clown one. Hendricks is still a sycophant, though, who just salivates over a somewhat salacious story such as this. She’s an embarrassment to her profession.

Because women on the net apparently get that level of horrific bullshit all the time.