The best part about this whole thing is that everyone feature on the site is an ADULT (unless your Brady's little kid). If these girls featured on the site, and the people that WILLINGLY purchase tickets to a party, why the heck do you people care what they do? Is it really affecting your day-to-day lives?
I mean they're adults. I'd hate for someone to tell you what you should or shouldn't do. It really is bizarro-world.
It's important to care about the message sent by supporting an entity like Barstool Sports. It's about the kind of culture we want to live in, the kind of values we want to recognize and reward. The point of taking a stand on this is to raise awareness about the fact that rape is a big deal. It's not a laughing matter, and we should make every effort to change cultural values that minimize it, and condemn any organization that profits by making light of it.
Meh, fake life stuff. People blowing his comments out of proportion and making this a bigger deal than it is. Then he calls them out for it, and they add fuel to the fire, and he just mocks them p---ing them off even more. Why attempt to "fight the power" of this guy who clearly made a joke and doesn't condone rape? It's bizarro-world stuff.
It's tough to take your argument too seriously when you're ripping off his own vernacular.
Yeah, because no one else has ever used those terms before.
In fact, I'm not even a big fan of the site.
What I am a fan of is people realizing how ridiculous they are about certain issues. People are up in arms because he cracked a joke about girls wearing tight fitting clothes and prancing around looking for attention and then getting harassed with attention. He's not saying go out and rape chicks. He's not condoning guys that rape chicks.
See, there's the real world which we live in and obviously society, and the people that frequent the site (including girls who regularly add their comments and submit their pictures) don't give two craps about, and then there's fake-life-living in where people that care about things other (normal) people don't, and make a huge stink about and try to make changes that people living in the real world find humorous.
Saying that somebody "deserves to be raped" because of what they are wearing, joke or not, is unacceptable. That is not "harassing them with attention." What you're doing is victim blaming.
You know what happens in the real world? People -- normal people, who dress and act like everybody else -- get raped and sexually assaulted. They get violated and treated like their person dignity doesn't matter. That's what happens in the real world.
The only thing "fake life" about this whole thing is the notion that in any just world rape is a laughing matter. The reality is that in the "real world," 1 in 4 women is a victim of sexual assault or rape in her lifetime. That's 1 in 4 out of all women who care a great deal about this issue.