So it seems that in the past few weeks, feminism has really
come into the spotlight in terms of media coverage; Some good and some bad.
It is something especially close to my heart when she goes on to speak how men cannot talk freely about their feelings and emotions for fear of looking weak and 'feminine'; I lost a man I loved dearly because he felt that he could not be honest about his problems and had to take the burden on his shoulders alone and this is wrong, no human being should have to feel like that. I completely agree with the fact that being a feminist means that you 'hate men', it is being equal as Emma clearly states. I remember being at school and if you said you were a feminist, you were just a moaning and 'bitchy' woman. I remember whenever feminism was brought up people would sigh or laugh because they believed all feminists were extreme and that they were fighting a war against men; which isn't the case at all. I used to feel ashamed or embarrassed to call myself a feminist, but in recent years it has become apparent that the world needs more people who believe and fight for equality. This is why I admire Emma so much for what she is trying to help achieve and I hope that she does manage to make a change.
Now, onto the bad. As a lot of you will probably be aware
YouTuber Sam Pepper has recently been in the news a lot for a new video he put
up that encouraged sexual harassment in public.
If you haven’t seen it, what he does is go round pinching
young women’s bums and then passes it off as a hilarious ‘prank’. When I first
heard about this, I was honestly quite confused purely because
I didn’t think it was possible for anyone to actually be that ignorant and stupid. I then watched the video and read the comments that people were making and then I realised this was actually something
that had been posted on the internet for everyone to see. I was so mortified for these poor girls who had to be subjected to that; they were minding their business and then they suddenly have a stranger groping them completely off guard.
I didn’t think it was possible for anyone to actually be that ignorant and stupid. I then watched the video and read the comments that people were making and then I realised this was actually something
that had been posted on the internet for everyone to see. I was so mortified for these poor girls who had to be subjected to that; they were minding their business and then they suddenly have a stranger groping them completely off guard.
What gave him the right to think he could possibly get away
with doing this all for a YouTube video? These poor women then had to pretend that it
was moderately okay, when you could clearly see how distressed and
uncomfortable they were.
My heart really went out to these women because no one deserves to feel uncomfortable or backed into a corner because of
another person. It’s really very sad.
The plus of this though, is that so many other YouTubers and
bloggers, celebrities and social media users, EVERYONE called Sam Pepper out on
this. They all said how horrible and vile he had been and how far across the
line he had gone.
Unfortunately, there have been a small minority of people
that have found it funny and said he’s done nothing wrong and told everyone to ‘lighten
up’ because it was ‘just a prank’. Seriously, reevaluate your lives if you actually think for a second this
is okay in any way,
Because sexual harassment is not a joke, not at all. If you have ever been sexually
harassed which a lot of people have sadly experience, then you will know how degrading
and awful it makes you feel. I have personally experienced sexual harassment a
number of times and no matter the scale it is still upsetting and it is still
wrong.
So the fact that there are some people actually standing up
for what this boy did, is just unimaginable to me.
What shocked me more, is that not once did he write an
apology on any of his social media outlets. He just carried on as if the whole
world wasn't hating on him, which just made me think that the guy was more
tapped than I initially thought.
He then went on to try and recover it by posting two more
videos once the original video was removed (thank god!); the first was of bum
pinching again but this time on men, which was equally bad and terrible and
then a third video.
In the third video he explained that the videos were
actually a ‘social experiment’ and he wanted to see how people reacted and that
the people who were in the video were fully aware of the situation.
Now I’m sorry, but that is the biggest pile of rubbish I
have ever heard: Sam Pepper has made controversial videos in the past when he
has kissed strangers without their consent. Which is just as bad AND he did not
apologies.
The only difference this time is that this video has
seriously blown up in his face and he knows that it has, because the amount of
people who have turned on him has made him realize he has truly messed up this
time.
I think a lot of people are now divided on whether he is being
sincere and it was actually a social experiment or whether he was just being an
absolute idiot. I personally think it’s the second option.
Now though, more and more young girls are coming out and say that they have been sexually harassed and sexually assaulted by Sam Pepper. He is supposed to be a grown man, yet he feels that because he is 'famous' he has a right to grope girls as young as 15? No, it does not work like that. I really hope that he crawls under a rock and never comes back, and I hope these girls manage to recover and not lose their trust in the human race.
I'm so sorry this is such a length post and if you have read this all, well done you little trooper! Please leave your comments below as I'd love to know your thoughts and opinions on this! Thanks for reading!
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Above is a comment that I found very very interesting and true, because although Sam has tried to pass it off as a social experiment he has basically initiated to a small minority that it is okay for women to be treated like this. I personally hope he never gets close enough to another human being ever again to be able to do this.I'm so sorry this is such a length post and if you have read this all, well done you little trooper! Please leave your comments below as I'd love to know your thoughts and opinions on this! Thanks for reading!
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