Is what’s new, just visibility? Like all these Gen x and boomer rock gods and comedians that have aged poorly… If David Gilmour was never on social media, I’d never know Roger Waters is a Nazi. If victims weren’t connected in community, would we know about Diddy et al?
I feel like visibility yeah but also the way we label behavior is in the middle of being updated. Aside from legit sex pests, you might have people like Louis CK who genuinely believed they were creepy yet ultimately benign.
40 years ago they would have been, if not right, then less out of line with the general morality.
I don’t know… I think we’re in a weird time right now. And I feel like fundamentally our thinking on sexuality and consent are missing some revolutionary thinker. Like we should not have progressed to this point historically without figuring this shit out but coincidentally all the people who could have captured that zeitgeist diet off in potato famines or something.
Jfc I missed this one. Is it bc we glorify them? Or do they get where they are bc they’re always like this deep down?
Partially it’s that we glorify them, which gives them opportunity. Plus, decades of fame goes to their heads.
Partially, it’s also that average nobodies are abusive shit heads too, we just don’t write articles about them.
Yeah… I think this is just the water we swim in now.
Is what’s new, just visibility? Like all these Gen x and boomer rock gods and comedians that have aged poorly… If David Gilmour was never on social media, I’d never know Roger Waters is a Nazi. If victims weren’t connected in community, would we know about Diddy et al?
I feel like visibility yeah but also the way we label behavior is in the middle of being updated. Aside from legit sex pests, you might have people like Louis CK who genuinely believed they were creepy yet ultimately benign.
40 years ago they would have been, if not right, then less out of line with the general morality.
I don’t know… I think we’re in a weird time right now. And I feel like fundamentally our thinking on sexuality and consent are missing some revolutionary thinker. Like we should not have progressed to this point historically without figuring this shit out but coincidentally all the people who could have captured that zeitgeist diet off in potato famines or something.
Anyway. Just a feeling. Not real.