A number of months in the past, whereas watching the Barbie film, I heard the road: “Everybody hates girls. Males hate girls and girls hate girls. It’s the one factor we are able to agree on.” It felt like a straight punch to the intestine.
I relived that second once I noticed Emily Hampshire dressed up as Johnny Depp, holding with a wine bottle, whereas her good friend impersonated a really distressed Amber Heard—a reference to the pair’s closely sensationalized defamation trial. I remembered when Heard broke down speaking concerning the alleged sexual assault she endured by the hands of Depp utilizing a wine bottle.
Upon backlash, the Schitt’s Creek star posted an apology on Instagram for her “inconsiderate, insensitive and ignorant actions.” She claimed it was meant to be a light-hearted joke. On social media, individuals defended Hampshire and condemned the “snowflake era’s incapability to take a joke.”
“I’m a home abuse sufferer, and though I didn’t see that put up I most likely would’ve thought it was humorous,” wrote one Instagram person. “Folks must loosen up.” This made me suppose: What If Amber heard noticed it? Would she discover it humorous?
That is merely the newest in an extended custom of individuals dressing up as well-known girls throughout their lowest moments. I’ve seen a number of individuals celebrating Halloween as a bald, matted Britney Spears; an inebriated Amy Winehouse; a dejected however alluring Marilyn Monroe; a bloodied Sharon Tate, paired up along with her assassin Charles Manson. Final Halloween, Megan Fox shared an Instagram put up during which she and fiancé Machine Gun Kelly dressed up as Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee. One picture reveals MGK together with his hand round Fox’s neck, with the caption: “However are these even costumes?” Take into accout: Lee was sentenced to 6 months in jail after pleading no contest to assaulting Anderson .
By telling others to loosen up and take a joke, girls with internalized misogyny add gasoline to the hearth. Incels have been utilizing this tactic to get away with blatant sexism for the reason that daybreak of the Web. Girls can not do their soiled work for them.
Why don’t we really feel the identical manner about males discovered responsible of abuse and rape? The place are the smear campaigns tarnishing their repute, dragging them by way of the mud whereas selecting aside their physique language? Why do the Invoice Cosbys and Chris Browns of the world get away with it, whereas the victims get pelted with sticks and stones?
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