It is true that illustrating absurd positions using absurdity or parody can be effective. Whether Glenn Beck’s “The Blaze” network as able to accomplish that is up to the viewer. Given his demographic viewer, he likely made a point, but it is one which other people are finding offensive. At issue is a White House survey that asked women about their encounters with men. Many women cited having men hit on them while they were under the influence of alcohol. What is somewhat controversial is that the Obama administration labeled a lot of that male-female interaction as sexual assault IE rape.
It isn’t the first time that Obama has gilded the proverbial lily when it comes to his data. Back in 2009, any company that received stimulus funds was reported as having “created or saved” jobs regardless of whether the funds actually went towards increasing head count. Essentially, they did the same thing with their report which purports that sexual assault affects one in five women.
In Beck’s skit, a man dressed up as a woman being hit upon by another man in a hoodie. At every suggestion that the fictitious woman engage in consensual physical congress with the man, a red arrow with the caption “rape” appeared pointed at the faux-woman. It was illustrating just how absurd loose definitions of words can be especially when most of the public understands rape to mean rape.
Given the recent murder spree by Elliot Rogers, which was motivated in part by his inability to find women willing to engage in sex, the skit can understandably be viewed as insensitive.