Rape is by no means a laughing matter.

But using humour to get a message across in a way that makes it easy for people to understand, share and support makes infinite sense.

Here are four superbly funny and tragically tongue-in-cheek takes on the legitimate rape issue:

Once upon a time a guy  asked a girl, "Will you marry me?"

The girl said,  "No!"

And the girl lived happily ever after and...

Blogger Courtney Martin examines the perennially loaded word "feminism" in this personal and heartfelt talk. She talks through the three essential paradoxes of her generation's quest to define the term for themselves.

Courtney E. Martin chronicles -- and encourages -- the current generation of young activists and feminists. She's an editor at Feministing.com and the author of "Do It Anyway: The New Generation of Activists."