InsaneJournal

Current mood:

angry

Another general update -- because thinking up entry headers is hard
One of my roommates is moving out... Which is sad, because he was easily the nicest of the lot, always ready to call the others on the kind of sexist and homophobic bullshit the average guy seems to spout unconsciously all the time.
I think I'd be sorrier, though, if the new roommate wasn't a really hot girl. *facepalm at self* Way to be shallow.

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As to the currently running debates -- the Lambda awards and the Polanski rape case -- I think there's not much point in uttering my own two cents on these matters. Not least because everyone else has said it so much better already. But also (probably because I'm still coughing my lungs up and feeling shitty, and procrastinating my uni work to a by now problematic degree), because I can't quite muster the strength for actual heartfelt outrage at the moment.

It's both just so very... unsurprising. Straight people not noticing their own privilege and whining over reverse discrimination all over the place? Must be Monday. Asshole rapist trying to evade punishment and getting support from all sides, because hey, his art is much more important than the life of the woman he traumatised? Well, art > all is not exactly a new argument, either. It's a fucking dumb argument, but it's not news.

The only somewhat eyebrow-raising (and very depressing) thing here is how many people are on Polanski's side, even though he confessed his guilt thirty years ago and there shouldn't be any doubts in a reasonably well-working mind that he belongs behind bars. What's more depressing, as someone on my f-list pointed out, is that the only reason anyone is against him at all, is the victim's age. If she'd been a grown woman, she would have gotten all the blame and no one but her would remember the incident now. We are, as a society, still far too prone to listen to rape apologists, and that's the only bottom line I get from this case.