You can be a victim and be complicit. The two are not mutually exclusive. Abuse might mitigate responsibility to an extent, but it does not automatically negate it.
Sharon
sharoncullars
Can we can pretty much assume that any young man in the vicinity of Kevin Spacey was pretty much groped, harassed, screwed etc?
Companies like Papa John’s will do everything in their power to deflect blame away from where it should lie if it involves altering what they do in any significant way. More palatable to blame black folks kneeling than to spend more money on better ingredients, or more training, or whatever it would actually take to…
To all my Latin@ brothers and sisters sucking up to white power,
Yep, all those early “we didn’t know” guys are now having their bullshit exposed by the sheer volume of complaints.
The key to slandering a coffee shop on Yelp is to give the place 2 or even 3 star reviews (to bring down the overall average) in which you make subtle complaints about the quality of the froth in your beverage or claim the tables were all dirty or something like that. They’ll automatically discard reviews about racism…
Are you a little nazi piggie and feel afraid...?
You’re so naive
I’ve accused him of being an overrated actor who is so insecure that he’s terrified of dating women his own age.
Honestly I think the whole claim is silly. I’ve been groped in gay bars by men a lot less appealing than Kevin Spacey and it wasn’t hard to get over. If it’s continued and prolonged abuse then that’s one thing, but a one-off dick grabbing shouldn’t be a big deal for most gay men.
I had the same feelings about a man who tried to molest me when I was 13. I was already the social geeky outcast, and at that point where you’re trying to figure out what and who you are. I’m sorry you still carry that weight of asking yourself what’s wrong inside you. You’re wonderful and good, what those men did was…
Think about this. We went from a literal nuclear physicist as Secretary of Energy, to this fucking guy. That’s how far we’ve sunk so fast. It’s just so fucking depressing.
Thank you for so beautifully writing out the feelings that I have had about this whole situation. I too, was molested as a kid by an older cousin-and later a teacher from our community who did theatre with me- and it took me years to reconcile those experiences (and to be honest, I’m still trying to deal with them…
Method acting is bullshit for people who can’t actually act.
Apple products and Starbucks... who are you people? The man has taken our Black Writers!!! The sky is falling!!! Soylant Green is people!!!
I want merit based
The first time I heard the term “internalized misogyny” a few years ago, I was filled with joy. FINALLY there was a term for all the pick me’s and defenders of terroristic men. I think it really is a coping mechanism that turns into a personality trait. Like how sometimes I smile and nod at some intrusive male so that…
And your life is far richer for it! You’re reading The Root and not Breitbart!
On the other hand, why should I give two shits what right wing publications think about anything whatsoever?