...because how dare people criticize the gay's greatest recruitment tool!
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.
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.
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.
Says the child molester.
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".
Yeah, does he have anyone specific in mind?
Fry was sexually assaulted as a child by another male pupil while at boarding school.
The comic treated guests to a graphic story about Gore Vidal’s stay at a top London hotel where he rang a gay escort agency to arrange a boy for an energetic afternoon session.
Fry once wrote a play which details a homosexual affair between a teacher and his 13-year-old pupil
Wow! This guy could be Obama’s next “Safe School Czar”!
Let me say this to those who approve his statements. I have no idea who this Fry is. Nor do I have any desire to know.
I have a 10 year old granddaughter who was sexually molested about 4 years ago. Would any of you like to pay for her counselling? Would you care to comfort her when she wakes up screaming, crying, soaked with perspiration? And not really knowing what to say.
I went out there, but I could not get to the pervert. Thankfully my son did not kill him. He has a entire family he has to provide for. I’m getting to be an old man, and have lived a full, happy, life. I don’t really want to kill more people, but I would have gladly sprayed his blood over the wall of his cell. Like I said, I am getting old, I have very strong beliefs. Luckily the pervert pled guilty and is locked away for a long time with no chance of parole for the next 25-30 years. And yet, justice has not been served.
For those of you who agree with Fry’s statement, I surely wish you could wear the shoes of others.