Posted on 04/12/2016 3:59:23 AM PDT by massmike
STEPHEN Fry has been slammed for his outlandish comments on rape sensitivity and child abuse.
The actor and comedian spoke to US TV host Dave Rubin about the loss of free speech and criticised the “deep infantilism” of the mind set of society, The Sun reports.
He then went on to say that people were too sensitive to the word rape.
“It’s a great shame that your uncle touched you in that nasty place — you get some of my sympathy — but your self pity gets none of my sympathy.”
“Self pity is the ugliest emotion in humanity, get rid of it because no-one’s going to like you if you feel sorry for yourself. The irony is we’ll all feel sorry for you if you stop feeling sorry for yourself — just grow up.”
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
...because how dare people criticize the gay's greatest recruitment tool!
One sick guy.
From the looks of that picture I’d say TWO sick guys!
At least rape victims actually are victims.
In this current state of “victimhood” in this country, it seems to be an epidemic... everyone is fighting for the status of being a victim.
“They’re terrible things and they have to be thought about, clearly, but if you say you can’t watch this play, you can’t watch Titus Andronicus, you can’t read it in an English class. Or you can’t watch Macbeth because it’s got children being killed in it, it might trigger something when you were young that upset you once, because uncle touched you in a nasty place, well I’m sorry.”
I loved Stephen Fry in Blackadder. I don’t like his politics and don’t much care for his personal life.
But in this article I agree with what he’s saying. He’s just arguing against this new wave of glorifying victims. I think he’s right.
Wallowing in one’s victimhood is really self defeating. You might as well just flush your life down the toilet. And asking ME to regulate my whole life around the fact that YOU’RE so sensitive that you might be “triggered” is ridiculous.
He might have phrased things a bit crudely here, but maybe that’s not such a bad thing.
Actually, he was making a comment about political correctness and the oppression of free speech with trigger warnings and safe spaces.
The article is grossly biased and out of context.
To some extent, I agree. Victims should (1) prosecute the predators, (2) solve the problem in some other permanent manner (e.g., shoot, shovel, and shut up), or (3) publicly ruin the predator’s life as has happened with Cosby. Victims should then move on and not allow evil to control their daily lives.
I was never a victim of molestation, but I was a victim of union thugs. I still hate unions and will hate them forever, but it does not control my life. I have moved on, successfully, and the original thugs who threatened to break my arms are no doubt dead while their thug successors are still working for just above minimum wage.
We're all victims of union thugs..................
Yep, but we moved on with our lives. They still collect their meager pay for threatening teenagers and pregnant women, then go home to the pathetic women who settled for marrying them.
He is right about one thing: Victim hood became a badge of status in the mid to late 70s, suddenly, almost over night. This was a 180 degree shift that amazed me at the time.
“But in this article I agree with what he’s saying. He’s just arguing against this new wave of glorifying victims. I think he’s right.”
I agree. I loved Steven Fry when he played Oscar Wilde. He’s a marvelous actor. He’s not trivializing rape; he’s just saying that it’s weak to spend your life in self pity, wanting others to tiptoe around your ‘triggers.’
Heck, I went to Catholic school. The nuns beat the snot out of us, and neither I nor my friends had to go to therapy over it.
You drag it around like a ball and chain
You wallow in the guilt; you wallow in the pain
You wave it like a flag, you wear it like a crown
Got your mind in the gutter, bringin’ everybody down
Complain about the present and blame it on the past
I’d like to find your inner child and kick its little ass
Get over it
Get over it
All this bitchin’ and moanin’ and pitchin’ a fit
Get over it, get over it
“... people are too sensitive to the word rape...”
Wow... after reading this article, I can only say that I think Fry’s opinion is based on the fact that he must have RAPED kids and doesn’t want a “bad” label. Just my opinion. FWIW.. I know several people who were victims of sexual abuse as children. To tell them to “get over it” is paramount to telling a woman to “lie back and enjoy it”. The taking of a child’s innocence is not only vile.. but truly EVIL.
Stephen Fry needs a tune-up. He shouldn’t mind.
I think he referring to the people who are consumed with reliving the abuse and subjecting every one around them to it. They constantly demand that everyone bow to their victimhood.
Some of us chose to move on with our lives.
Says the child molester.
“... to the people who are consumed with reliving the abuse...”
I would agree with you, Appy, but he is a Gay Marriage activist. He is pictured with “his husband” (one that is mighty young if you ask me). My point is he may be preaching about “victimhood as a status” but pedophiles are constantly using “talking points” to “normalize” themselves. The talking points are: sexual abuse of a child can be “loving” and “beneficial”. Also, “loving a child” is no different than someone “loving blondes or long legged ladies”. NAMBLA’s own saying is “sex before eight, or else it’s too late”. I think Fry is defending sexual abuse of kids as not being “a big deal” and if they have issues later on in life.. well, they are just a bunch of winers who are griping about nothing.
everyone is fighting for the status of being a victim.
I was an especially pitiable victim...by the time I was old enough to follow baseball, the Giants and Dodgers were in their last two years in New York, and I had to live with the subsequent trauma of only having one of the most odious entities ever, the Yankees, to watch for the next seven years...thank goodness for the Mets, who saved my teenage life...
In the context of what he said, he is absolutely right. The left is destroying free speech, there is a plague of victimization (micro aggressions and "triggers")that justifies banning literature, plays and statues of national heroes and symbols in the US and England.
College campuses produce infantile adults with the trigger words, micro aggressions and being offended by speech so let's ban it so nobody gets their feelings hurt.
Thomas Jefferson is considered a rapist, any honor (statues, building monuments etc...)that this country has shown the man since his death need to be renamed, torn down and his name stricken from the history books.
The part that most of you are reacting to pertains to a play that the leftists would ban because of a rape in the story line. We can't have that because of sensitivities, hurt, uncomfortable feelings or it may "trigger deep seated memories of an uncle who may have touched you. Grow up and stop feeling sorry for yourself".
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