Reductress devoted its whole website to dismantling rape culture

With "How to Be An Ally to Both a Rapist and His Victim" and other posts.
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If you haven't been to Reductress.com recently, do yourself a favor and go there right now.

You may notice a theme on the site's homepage — nearly every story published on Wednesday was in some way about rape or rape culture.

Of course, this is Reductress, a satirical women's magazine. And these "rape jokes" aren't like the ones you've heard before.


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Instead of stale, unfunny humor, Reductress on Wednesday gave us:

This Rapist Has Figured Out a Way to End Rape Culture

How to Be an Ally to Both a Rapist and His Victim

Man Who Sexually Assaulted You Likes Your Facebook Post About Assault

and, Chill Ways to Just Sort of Live With It.

That's just a selection of the stories Reductress published.

A welcome commentary at any time, the project was posted in the midst of two high-profile rape allegations playing out in the media. In the comedy world that Reductress is a part of, a popular comedian was recently banned from Upright Citizens Brigade theaters after multiple women reported he had raped, sexually assaulted and sexually harassed them. (The comedian, Aaron Glaser, has denied the allegations.) Following that comedian's ban, comedian and past Inside Amy Schumer writer Kurt Metzger took to Facebook and Twitter to mock the allegations and accusers.

Some of the Reductress pieces directly call out the details of those events.

At the same time, new information has been surfacing surrounding the college rape allegations against Nate Parker, the filmmaker behind the forthcoming The Birth of a Nation.

Reductress didn't respond to an interview request, but editor Beth Newell told Jezebel that the project was a direct response to the UCB saga.

"Our female comedian friends were feeling pretty frustrated with a lot of the dialogue surrounding these events, specifically some of the comments coming from men. We put out a call to writers for pitches on the topics of sexual assault and related issues and we received an overwhelming response," Newell told Jezebel. "So we came up with the idea to use as many of those ideas as possible and do a full homepage takeover."

But the smart, funny commentary on rape culture is welcome at any time, and an example of how a "rape joke" can work.

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Emma Hinchliffe is a business reporter at Mashable. Before joining Mashable, she covered business and metro news at the Houston Chronicle.

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