That’s funny, because that’s exactly the reason I didn’t like the piece. She anticipated a particular reaction from a particular audience and put it in text form in order to force a particular kind of complicity from them. It’s a closed loop with no room to breathe and no space provided for ambiguity or…

The phrase “denial of her right to dictate what you saw” is bullshit. I’m not calling you out, I am calling her out. Artists never dictate what the audience sees or how the audience interprets the art. This poor woman apparently got a piss-poor art education. But hey, she’s in the national media, so “win”, right?

She stopped being a victim a long time ago. Rape fetishists like you who forever refer to her as a victim are the only ones who think she’s still a “victim”.

She claimed the spokesperson title when she made a porn (likely without the consent of the guy) and sought attention to herself rather than to the cause she…

We have zero right to tell any victim how they can deal with and especially commodify their trauma.

I’m not telling her how to deal with her trauma. I DO have a right to opinion, and to negatively judge her public choices to commmodify her trauma.

She’s not entitled to my approval for her public choices - and that’s…

“...it aimed at revealing systemic problems in the way that people relate to each other...”

Now that she has graduated, she needs to keep being part of the story. As long as there are people who indulge her, she will be, though the off-campus world is a tougher market.

I disagree - if you’re sitting in a class or a graduation ceremony and someone brings their art piece with them - particularly one as large as a mattress, you are not a passive viewer - you are a captive audience...

Sorry, but I disagree. I think that some people who are reacting negatively to it (and her) are angry because they disagree with her imposing herself as a spokesperson/advocate for rape. I am one of those people.

I think she does irreparable damage to the cause and leveraged this unfortunate experience to do nothing…

How else should it be judged? I agree with some of your points above on engaging the viewer etc. But it’s certainly presented as art.

And we have a winner ... this is self marketing.

So, umm...her performance art follows the plot of “Funny Games”, but with rape? Umm, cool? I get it, but “YOU are also complicit by WATCHING this” is a really hackneyed artistic statement at this point.

Come on, homie. This is fucking crazy. This is some bizarre incoherent shit. I don’t know what the fuck this is supposed to be about. Like, seriously, what the fuck is going on? She was raped and now she wants us to witness her relive the experience by watching some low production value porn?

Is it ok to be against rape but still think this sucks

It’s 15 seconds long of a girl with her hair cut and answering 2 questions. THAT’S your definition of grisly and disgusting??

Excuse me? “Demanding?” I’m taking issue with your claim that Jenner’s mother is unsupportive and “choosing to disrespect her daughter.”

Oh please. Your partner’s parents are not Caitlyn Jenner’s mom. And seriously, this is ONE DAY in to Jenner’s public transition. I doubt that what Esther Jenner meant by “I still have to call him Bruce” was “I refuse to acknowledge my child’s truth.” This looks to me like a lady who’s trying to be supportive, and…

What’s wrong with you?

She is supporting her child. She's also being honest that it will take a few minutes to get used to.

It sounds as if she is already doing it. I think an 80+ year old person struggling to get used to a new name and new gender after 65 years of thinking of her child as one thing should be given the benefit of the doubt. She is not saying that she doesn't support Caitlyn, just that for her it's difficult to get used to.

It has been ONE DAY since she’s taken her gender transition public. Can we please not demonize her elderly mother, who’s clearly trying to be supportive? We don’t have to applaud her, but jesus, do you expect her to be perfectly versed on trans issues instantly?