It “worked” because it made someone think? All kinds of things make people think. That doesn’t mean they’re valuable or admirable or not evidence of psychopathology.

Ugh. Okay, I finally watched some of it. Not much. Just enough to feel like I could make an informed comment. A few things: Yes, whatever she says to the contrary, she is recreating the alleged incident. The time stamp on the video is the date of the event in question, and from what I could tell the particulars of…

By all means, stop me when I do something in defiance of her rights.

Correct. Art for art’s sake was always just as meaningless as it sounded, not to mention a utopian impossibility. People do things for reasons.

YOU CAN’T DECIPHER MY NUANCES!

It means going back to a well that has brought her fame and notoriety.

That’s what it feels like. Like when Thom Yorke or someone does a press release and it’s all gobbledigook because artist.

Thank you for boiling what I said down into a pathetic little version of itself that you could do battle with. I hope you feel much better.

In my experience it’s mostly not healthy. Think of the war vet who signs up for an additional tour because they don’t know how to live as a civilian, you know? I had a VERY complicated experience of sexual violence, where I wasn’t the victim but someone close to me was and I couldn’t help them and was subjected to…

I’m a PTSD sufferer. I know these things. I also know that not only does a sufferer’s physiology reinvent and perpetuate the event, but sometimes the sufferer can reinvent it and perpetuate it too.

This is tremendous. Well done.

Okay. If they’re so great, can you please translate them into English for me?

You know what would be another really good way to process it?

What an evasive, intellectually dishonest little hustle. Lots of people ask what the purpose of paintings is. For instance, often it’s that they look nice. Your art teacher sounds like a total wank.

The more I think on this the more I arrive at two very troubling thoughts. Both are admittedly based upon my own speculative reflections on what it must be like to be catapulted to celebrity for having been subjected to a sex crime, and the psychological pressure, re-traumatization, and yes, ego boosting exhilaration…

I haven’t watched the video and feel no desire to, but I did read the text, and she cannot write worth shit. If her motives for doing this are anything like the garbled word soup I just read then they are frankly incoherent.

Sometimes shuffling an old catchphrase back into the deck really pays off.

I find this whole spectacle to be a grotesque fucking carnival, and I barf at the praise this move from Jenner is getting. Before anyone has a conniption, I don’t object to someone being transgender. People should be able to live however the hell they want. However, doing press and a magazine cover about your…