Is It Really About Haiti, Or Is It About PTSD And Sexual Assault?
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After the piece by reporter Mac McClelland – who used violent sex to move past her PTSD – came out a couple of weeks ago, a barrage of replies hit the web. Of course.
Not in support of the author’s personal experience (even though that’s what the piece was about). Nor in acknowledgment of how far-reaching that PTSD is, and how many people are probably walking around with it post-earthquake, or assault, or stint in the US Army. Nor discussing how sexual assault is still so damn rampant in all parts of the world, and what are we doing to change that.
Of course.
Instead, a bunch of female – yes, female – journalists wrote into Jezebel about their disdain for the horrible way that McClelland portrayed Haiti; like it was hell on earth. Like all she did with her essay was provide soil to the minions fervently planting their master’s ideas about this “backward” place.
Not only did they completely miss the point, in my opinion, but they changed the conversation about what it should be about – PTSD and sexual violence – and put a lens on it that most moderately intelligent people (and seriously, most people reading GOOD are going to be) weren’t originally peering through.
Thank God Roxane Gay at The Rumpus got it, and explained it much better than I can. Go read her piece, Still with the Scarlet Letters, but only after you read the Jezebel piece.
And let us know what you think.
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Mexico City's Short-Term Marriage Proposal
Even in Relationship You’re All Alone
I Lack the Commitment Gene
Stop Crying and Be a Man
After the piece by reporter Mac McClelland – who used violent sex to move past her PTSD – came out a couple of weeks ago, a barrage of replies hit the web. Of course.
Not in support of the author’s personal experience (even though that’s what the piece was about). Nor in acknowledgment of how far-reaching that PTSD is, and how many people are probably walking around with it post-earthquake, or assault, or stint in the US Army. Nor discussing how sexual assault is still so damn rampant in all parts of the world, and what are we doing to change that.
Of course.
Instead, a bunch of female – yes, female – journalists wrote into Jezebel about their disdain for the horrible way that McClelland portrayed Haiti; like it was hell on earth. Like all she did with her essay was provide soil to the minions fervently planting their master’s ideas about this “backward” place.
Not only did they completely miss the point, in my opinion, but they changed the conversation about what it should be about – PTSD and sexual violence – and put a lens on it that most moderately intelligent people (and seriously, most people reading GOOD are going to be) weren’t originally peering through.
Thank God Roxane Gay at The Rumpus got it, and explained it much better than I can. Go read her piece, Still with the Scarlet Letters, but only after you read the Jezebel piece.
And let us know what you think.
Début de l'événement
10.01.2022
Fin de l'événement
10.01.2022