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hide our sins, it's different if it's my friend, misconceptions about feminism, rape culture, schedule your rape accusations, sj means never having to say you're sry, social justice, transfail

Heartbreak & Heroines
Kynn created a RPG called Heartbreak & Heroines, and used Kickstarter to get $3000 in funding in 48 hours. Over on LJ, Jack posted his response to his ex's success, in two minds because he's glad someone he knows did something cool, Kynn raped him. A couple days later, alexandraerin posts as well, expressing dismay at Kynn's behavior.

Jack posts Tweets from Kynn and later, emails,. At some point, the Kickstart for the RPG is canceled.

Some responses are laudable. Others, not so much.

ETA: Kynn tried to get a new name on RPG post-ban.

ETA2: Elf has a post about it.

ETA3: Kynn denies the rape happened.

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jackandahat
2011-07-31 01:42 am UTC (link)

I think it's the hypocrisy issue.

It's like politicians. If regular Joe politician cheats on his wife... eh, that's between him and his wife, none of my business.

If Ultra-Conservative politician who has been banging on about the sanctity of marriage and trying to dictate what I can do with my love life gets caught shagging his secretary, then it's very much my business - because he involved himself in my business, and he set standards of behaviour for me and then didn't live up to them himself.

So if Jane Average does something wrong, then that's bad. But if Jane Social Justice who has been telling everyone else how to live their lives does something, then it seems worse, because she the one who set the standards for what's allowed and what's not.

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