“You can listen to someone be frustrated and bitch about white women, even in an aggressive way, and CHOOSE to not take it personally.”

Your right to privacy (this isn’t a free speech issue, numbnuts) ends when you parade your idiocy in public.

Well the people outing them are just practicing their free speech rights too.

Actions have consequences. I hope all these assholes march on the White House and demand that Donald take care of them. He signaled to them that it would be okay to be hidesouly and openly racist, misogynistic, anti-Semitic, homophobic, who knows what the fuck else, now let him look after them.

I don’t think it is very neutral. I don’t have a huge problem with it, and none whatsoever in the article. However, my minor problem is that the collective creators at Jezebel know just as well as Conor does the inherent danger of a story like this being well publicized. Conor did his best in the interview to tell his…

It’s not projecting. There’s a very clear context and pattern which this fits (or, actually, doesn’t fit) into. Which is why people are surprised. The headline doesn’t exist alone, separate from all other things.

“You are projecting a lot on a very neutral and straight-forward headline, friend.”

Why wouldn’t we, when Jezebel’s standard headline approach is to introduce the viewpoint that the article will take? That the headline is taking a position is standard for the entire Gawker Media Empire™. 

“Conor Oberst discusses false rape accusation” is about as neutral and straight forward as you could have gotten.

It seems that about half the commenters had the same reaction as potterpoet. So either there’s been a strange epidemic of “projection” or the article lacks clarity and a coherent editorial thrust. But I guess we bitches just be crazy.

You are projecting a lot on a very neutral and straight-forward headline, friend.

if it were on a more neutral blog, i would agree with you. but headlines here do tend to be outrage bait/attacking people.

The usual “Person compares thing to other thing” story would have the subject making a WTF comparison. Like “Kendall Jenner compares controversy over Pepsi ad to sexual assault”.

article is well written, headline is clickbait by editorial staff

no i think trauma is appropriate. i also cannot imagine the kind of mental anguish this would cause a person.

Am I supposed to hate him for this? Because I don’t. He sounds perfectly reasonable here.

“It’s such a tricky topic for me because I don’t ever want to minimize how much that happens to women all the fucking time,” he says. “They say one in four women will experience some kind of sexual assault in their life which is fucking insane and heartbreaking. So as painful and surreal and fucked up as my situation…

Yeah, everything he said seems pretty reasonable.

I feel like the lede here should be “Conor Oberst was falsely accused of rape, and OH HEY uses the opportunity when asked about it to be publicly compassionate toward women who’ve been assaulted.”

That...seems okay as far as comparisons go? Maybe even a bit understating it, since this accusation was another person’s willful act and accidents are, well, accidents.