I think artists have certain responsibilities in how they create their art — to be honest about who contributed to their work and give credit where it’s due, to take their subject matter with the level of seriousness it deserves, etc. I can understand feeling that Sulkowicz has a responsibility to other rape…

Seriously. I'm thunderstruck it wasn't a feature today. It is very, very problematic.

What vitriol? I took part in that conversation. I don’t recall spewing any vitriol.

I’ve looked repeatedly and that doesn’t appear to be the case. Can you provide a link? They did post one article originally when the video first landed, but that was several days ago, and the link was essentially presented without comment. Meanwhile, we get article after article about the Duggar family, even though…

Thank you! I was waiting for some sort of acknowledgement that the (wrong) story also ran here at Jezebel, but I guess I’ll be waiting for quite some time...

I think you just summed up the Jezebel of today. I miss the deeper, less shamey stuff of yesteryear.

Sorry for derailing, but this article on the NYTimes is super thought provoking and also talks about expectations for women.

Here is the issue I have with this whole thing. Would you force an african american baker to make a lynching cake for a kkk member? How about a jewish baker to make a nazi cake? A pro-choice baker making an aborted fetus cake (10/10 would have a slice) for an anti-choice rally?

If you answer no to either of these, then…

I expect I’ll be thinking about this a lot.

But Nabokov didn’t write a book about fucking a teenager. People really should read the book instead of watching the movies or taking the public’s consensus on the book and running with it. There is zero sex in the book because, again, the book isn’t about fucking a teenager. The book is about an unreliable narrator,…

One more hand and now you’re a Hindu deity.

Your comment makes no sense. Who called this piece “silly” because it is a “woman making a video”? Everyone comment I read here which is critical of the video is critical of the content of the video, not because it was done by a “woman.” Do we have to appreciate all purported so-called art for all time done by any…

This feels disturbingly like dining out on her own rape.

This is demonstratively dumb.

LOL are you for real?

Thank you for watching & describing this, because I wasn’t going to, but I was also quite curious. This whole thing has had me so confused from the start, but at this point I really feel like giving her additional attention is akin to enabling someone with a mental disorder.

I haven’t watched this video and have no opinion on it, but I like to call that particular writing style and the art frequently associated with it “11x17 art.” The kind of art you occasionally find somewhere like the Whitney or the New Museum that you look at and think, “huh...” Then you stroll over to the 11x17 title…

So we’re back to thinking that art can’t be about ugly or hurtful things?

It may be true that folks are less willing to invest the time to analyze performance art as opposed to other forms of art. But why is that a problem? Do you think as critically about every Vogue fashion shoot or verse of teenage poetry as about the works of Chaucer? Should you?

“On the fifth hand, this will probably lead even reasonably-minded people to question her judgement and sincerity, if not her mental stability, and cast doubt on her accusations, thereby hurting the cause.”