Horrifying cartoon of Greta Thunberg being sexually assaulted linked to Canadian oil company

[Soph0571]

An explicit cartoon of 17-year-old Greta Thunberg being raped has been spotted with the branding of a Canadian oil company on it.
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The sticker was allegedly being handed out at job sites to be worn on hard hats, and was circulating among X-Site Energy Services employees last week with the knowledge of one of the managers.

Said manager reportedly responded to the complaint by saying that Thunberg "wasn't a child"... which seems somewhat irrelevant.

Thunberg responded in her characteristically measured way, tweeting that this shows she and her cause are winning.

Link to tweet

This has now escalated to the point of images of sexual violence, which is clearly worrying.
It's also heavily gendered – one can only wonder whether a male activist would be subject to such horrifying treatment and conclude that likely not.

[link:https://www.indy100.com/article/greta-thunberg-cartoon-rape-x-site-canada-oil-energy-company-9369046|]

What grown arsed man would think that this was OK? And not just the wanker that produced this, but anyone who put it on their hardhat etc...

[johnthewoodworker]

1. This is the kind of crap Trumpers thrive on.

Hillary was right when she used the term deplorables.

[Orrex]

5. Hillary was being kind

They are a cult of idiot racist fuckheads.

[jimfields33]

28. It's Canada.

[applegrove]

36. GOP incubates little followers in Alberta. They've been doing it for generations.

Ever since oil was discouvered.

[jimmil]

2. My God.....

What can one say? This actually makes me hurt for mankind.

[Locrian]

3. WTF? wow

What sick person looks around and decides they *want* to be the villain / bad guy, etc?

[knightmaar]

4. And the goddamn RCMP won't prosecute because "Greta" doesn't necessarily mean *this* Greta

Could be any Greta, doncha know?

Might be an *adult* named Greta they mean to depict getting raped.

How can we be sure what girl-with-braids named Greta the oil patch assholes are thinking of raping?

[RVN VET71]

7. Bring light to bear on these cretins

I mean serious light, photos, videos, showing the dorks who are wearing the things. Seeking out these helmeted geldings and interviewing them in public, why are you wearing that on your helmet? Would you mind awfully much if a dozen or so dudes walked in here with a cartoon of your mum getting raped? Your sister? Your daughter?

Who is the manager who said it's all OK because she's 17? I'd love to see his ignorant phiz on a sticker -- and I won't describe the incident it would depict.

Dig it: I don't care if this was about some inspirational little girl who loved oil and denied climate change. If anyone puts up a sticker so blatantly disgusting and revolting about the rape of a woman or girl, I'd like to be the one with the urn of dog feces to dump on their head. It is, of course, especially disgusting that some vile swine would choose to pick on a young woman who has focused her life on combatting what she truly believes -- because science!! -- is likely to be the death of us all.

End of rant.

[cwydro]

9. Wtf?

Are you being serious here?

[braddy]

10. Yes, how did rape get attached to the drawing? How does someone see rape in it?

[LuckyCharms]

11. The intent of the drawing of and the message it sends makes it a rape depiction.

[LuckyCharms]

15. PS...Are you saying that an oil company using this picture

of a barely turned 17 year old girl, a climate change activist, is the company indicating that they are "making love" to her? Is that what you are implying?

Or, might it be more reasonable to assume that the oil company is controlling, fucking, raping, abusing this 17 year old girl? Is this type of thing what you consider to be "normal sex"?

[cwydro]

22. Thank you.

I was still trying to wrap my head around that post.

Wow.

[Ms. Toad]

25. I see naked - but I don't see sex at all.

It is obviously offensive, and intended as sexual humiliation since she is depicted as naked. For that, alone, it deserves condemnation.

But I don't see any other person, other than hands on her pigtails, not do I see any penetration by the sign (nothing from the sign protrudes where she is sitting - both the upright from the T and the crossbar are at the outside of her right hip, not her anus). When I first saw these reports yesterday, I expected to find a protruding top of the T or something right where she was sitting.

What am I missing? I'm usually the one explaining why an image depicts rape to others who don't see it.

[TwilightZone]

30. "other than hands on her pigtails"

It would seem that the answer to your question is right in the middle of your post.

I think redqueen covered this well, so I'll let her take it from here:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213035952#post20

[Ms. Toad]

35. The clarification below was helpful.

It appeared to me that she was perched on top of the sign. From that perspective, pulling in her pigtails looked more like the grade school bully dipping the pigtails of the girl in the unwell -or just yanking on them.

With the suggestion that she is on her knees, the image is dramatically different - like the picture that can be seen as an older woman -or a younger one, depending on whether you look at the positive space or the negative. I was viewing this from the perspective that I was looking from behind at a vertically oriented scene -not as from a bird's eye view looking down on a woman in her knees.

ETA: redqueen's explanation would not have flipped the perspective for me. Rejecting excuses for bad behavior doesn't help someone who is only seeing the old lady see the young one.

[obamanut2012]

21. She is being forcibly and violenty anally raped -- I saw the image

JFC just stop.

[dawn5651]

12. since the child in this disgusting sticker is 17 years old

[braddy]

16. My wife was 17, age of consent in Sweden is 15, my brother enlisted at 17 I served with 17 year olds

I married a 17 year old, a person can enlist in the Royal Marines and be in their second year of elite military service at age 17.

[redqueen]

20. Here. Jesus fucking Christ I am so fucking sick and tired of excuse makers.

Link to tweet

Hopefully the next time something like this happens you will reconsider speaking before thinking.

[RandiFan1290]

24. Buh... bye

He disrupted poorly

[LakeArenal]

29. WTH does your wife being 17 have to do with anything.

Was you 17 year old wife’s image posted on anything, naked without her consent.

[cwydro]

34. Rape has nothing to do with a person's age.

But surely you know that?

Can’t believe I’m reading this crap here.

[Skittles]

37. what does that have to do with ANYTHING?

[B Stieg]

8. Love the North...

but bad, biased people are where you find them, unfortunately.

[dawn5651]

13. the rcmp is full of it...google the name of the oil and gas company and that sticker comes up

[DBoon]

17. Think of Alberta as Oklahoma with really cold weather

It's oil country, with all the macho attitudes and reactionary politics

[2naSalit]

26. And a big

man camp with meth problems. It's a culture in oil fields.

[lyvwyr101]

14. Horrible

This is how low these people are. Abominable.

[Jakes Progress]

18. Not deplorable. Basket of Despicables

The post above was right. Hillary was way to kind.

[zentrum]

19. Killing their own children by

.....destroying the planet.

[Ms. Toad]

23. So help me out here.

The cartoon is obviously gross, I appropriate, childish, etc.

But I cannot see rape in it, let alone "violent" rape. It appears to me that she is sitting on the logo, naked, with no other person visible, and no part of the logo that protrudes into her vagina or anus.

It took me quite a while to find a visual of the sticker - and I'm obviously not seeing what everyone else is seeing. Which is surlrising, since I'm constantly being told that I am imagining things that are, to me, clearly acts of sexual violence.

[Mendocino]

27. "no other person visible"

Did you not see the hands holding her by her pigtails?

[Ms. Toad]

32. That suggests restraint

But I still see nothing that suggests penetration.

I spent 10 years as a rape crisis counselor, I am a rape survivor, was a co-founder of a WAVAW chapter, and co-author of a slide show that made the sexual violence that is embedded in advertisements explicit by comparison to violent pornographic images.

In other words, I have lots of experience in this realm -and I don't a sexual act in this sticker.

(I am NOT suggesting the image shouldn't provoke outrage. But, unless I'm m missing something, I think rape overstates it.)

ETA: Thanks to a poster below, I now recognize it was a perspective issue. What I was not seeing was that this was a bird's eye view. It appeared to me that she was sitting perched on top of their logo (which I was viewing from behind, not above)

[lapfog_1]

31. Lets see...

I think it might have to with the following:

1. Greta identified by name
2. Naked facing away from the viewer and on her knees
3. Two hands grabbing her iconic pigtails with the implication that she is being sexually penetrated in this position ( pulling of the hair is sexually dominant )
4. the implication of the placement of the logo is that it ( the company ) is sexually penetrating her from behind using their hands to keep her submissive by pulling her pigtails.

I would infer rape because of her unlikely willingness to have sex with an oil company.
She is 17, so in the US, this would be considered statutory rape in most states.

Anal versus vaginal isn't depicted as far as I can tell... I don't think that matters.

Clearly this is an image meant to sexually humiliate an underage climate activist... one who has gained the attention of the world with her protest that the adults (collectively) are trashing the world for her generation.

I think she handled it quite well, as she does with so many world leaders who have dismissed or tried to humiliate her in the past.

[Ms. Toad]

33. What was not apparent to me

Was that she was on her knees. It appeared to me that she was sitting on top of the logo (with the only protrusion from the sign at the outside of her right hip, nowhere near her anus or vagina). That gives it a different perspective.

Thank you for the clarification.

[Ahpook]

38. I think I just saw the cartoon

Ponytails being pulled?

That is a new low even for these freaks. They have to answer for this. It has to be!