Angry AND disappointed

[stillsostrange]

I'm angry, and probably shouldn't post when I'm angry, but I'm going to do it anyway. This anger isn't going away. So I will leave my opinion here for posterity.

The advent of the internet makes it easier to "meet" artists of all varieties, and therefore to discover that they're people with opinions just like everyone else, and those opinions often run counter to our own. Getting bent out of shape because an artist doesn't agree with you on everything is certainly one's prerogative, but usually a very silly one.

But I draw the line at basic human rights. Including the right not to be fucking raped.

There is no moral grey area here. There is never a time when rape is maybe okay. Or not really that bad. And if anyone says there is, they have lost any respect I might ever have given them. I don't care what kind of art you make, or what your other political views are. If you think rape is okay, I think you're a waste of skin.

Comments

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

I think it's that old essentialism trap: "I like this person, therefore they're a good person because I wouldn't like bad people, and therefore they wouldn't do that or what they did was okay, because they're a good person."

Which when you write it down isn't really the most rock-solid of logic there, but, well. People do it.

[mr-earbrass.livejournal.com]

Your explanation makes more sense than anything else I've come up with, other than people just being (willfully) ignorant to the basic facts of the case, in which case we're back at the question of why they wouldn't educate themselves before signing on--they like his work or his personality or something. It's also interesting/gross to see the dichotomy between new sources who refer to the crime as "sex", albeit "unlawful," versus those that acknowledge it as rape.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Maybe I am having a cynical day, but...it's my experience that people don't go out on their own time to educate themselves about things. They have opinions and stick to the facts that support said opinions, etc.

Okay, yeah, I'm having a cynical day. *g*