Emma Sulkowicz reenacts "rape" as "performance art"

KamiNekoSama · 2015-06-07T02:36:32+00:00

I just hope the senator and the Clinton who proclaimed her a hero will publicly retract their statements. I will hold my breath.

EvolvingRedneck · 2015-06-07T02:54:32+00:00

This is what she intends to build an art career on? Then again, what else is she going to do. Any HR department will see her as a nightmare.

Capitalsman · 2015-06-07T01:29:56+00:00

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McFeely_Smackup · 2015-06-07T02:59:10+00:00

“‘Ceci N’est Pas Un Viol’ is not about one night in August, 2012” – the night Sulkowicz says she was raped by a fellow Columbia student.

She instead explains: “It’s about your decisions, starting now. It’s only a reenactment if you disregard my words. It’s about you, not him.”

Oh, that is... she knows exactly what she's doing! She's protecting herself from being sued - as she clearly states it's not about that night and clearly says that the piece is making a statement about the viewer and how the motives of the viewer.

And that this isn't a re-enactment of anything but the "rape" the viewer performs if they watch this for their own gratification.

In other words - she's covering her bases. She makes sure to never actually claim this is what happened and even says that it's not what happened, knowing full well that people will assume she is saying this is what happened anyway.

That way she knows that it will be viewed and reported as if it's her claim about what happened that night, without actually claiming this is what happened that night. So she's committing liable without being exposed to a law suit.

Even the title here is that she "reenacts the "rape"", although she clearly claims it's not a reenactment and it's not about the night of the rape.

She knows exactly what she's doing.

Fuck her.

yendorion · 2015-06-07T05:38:02+00:00

She basically made a porn & uploaded it.

servicestud · 2015-06-07T11:02:53+00:00

As has been noted elsewhere: She is literally whoring for attention now.

funnyfaceking · 2015-06-07T07:13:23+00:00

If I have an experience that is mildly similar to the rape that happened to me, I often can't calm down for an hour or more. Sometimes it triggers panic attacks that happen for as long as six days. This person has so much contempt for real victims, I cannot even speak. Someone who repeats the same stories over and over again is a liar. I almost said skilled liar, but nobody is letting this one get away with it.

olioster · 2015-06-07T02:29:04+00:00

Ugh, kids these days. In my day, art was a painting of a pretty lady!

Jesus_marley · 2015-06-07T05:20:14+00:00

Emma Sulkowicz reenacts "rape" as "performance art"

It needs to have actually happened before it can be "re-enacted".

9outof10experts · 2015-06-07T12:29:09+00:00

As someone who has been raped (like, really), I would love to shove that mattress right down her lying throat. I wish feminists would drop their rape culture and come out and publicly say they will accept people into their little club without having to make up a rape story to fit in. It is further assault to people whose experiences are real. Lies like hers don't hurt the average men they so blindly hate - they hurt the women they're pretending to be, as well as every male who has to live with real trauma from real assaults.

wiseprogressivethink · 2015-06-07T05:52:24+00:00

From (alleged) tragedy to comedy. That was fast.

R-M-Pitt · 2015-06-07T11:07:19+00:00

This is a porno, not "performance art".

Secondly, I thought depicting rape in porn was illegal?

Omnipraetor · 2015-06-07T02:49:51+00:00

It's fascinating to observe how tenacious she is. She refuses to admit defeat, ever.

Unenjoyed · 2015-06-07T15:18:20+00:00

That woman needs professional help.

Chef_Lebowski · 2015-06-07T06:42:39+00:00

Art? This is about as artful as that twat on Instagram who posted a picture of her blood-stained pants to show people her period.

But these two examples aren't the bad thing here. It's actually the amount of attention they're getting from the media and then social media, ten fold. Now, every little girl and women who think they're feminists will repost this with some side comment like "wow, what a brave woman!" without even watching the video or reading the article, I'll bet. Believe me, I have a college friend SJW who considers herself a feminist. She has a boyfriend too and I'm surprised how he puts up with her bullshit. Maybe cause she's hot? Who knows why he tolerates her, but she's your stereotypical feminist and SJW. I used to be friends with her too till I found out what a shitty person she really is. But back to my point.

This has the power to reach all the gullible people who will eat this shit up, as long as it represents their sex. You know how feminism constantly tries to preach about equality for all? That's complete and utter bullshit. They are using that as a cover to hide the fact that they're only benefitting their own gender. Homosexual men and women are fair game, but when it comes to men, it's just like that Game of Thrones season 4 tagline: All Men Must Die.

How do people in political power not see that if feminists and SJW's get their way, this could become a reality. And not like Nazi Germany bad, but if they did rise to power, imagine all the initiatives they would try to push on the male population. From infertility to castration.

I know how much this shit sounds like it belongs on /r/redpill and /r/conspiratard, but women like this one in the article are all contributing to an agenda of some sort. So FUCK feminism and fuck their shitty ideals. This is why more and more MRA's are popping up, a direct cause of their shitty effect on society. I mean shit, here's another brilliant feminist who wants to reduce the population. http://www.vice.com/read/is-reducing-the-male-population-by-90-percent-the-solution-to-all-our-problems

And isn't the rule of thumb that any ideal that ends with "ism" a bad thing or will end up bad?

WitBeer · 2015-06-07T06:12:54+00:00

Why am I not surprised that someone with 2 psychiatrist parents is batshit insane. I hope she gets sued and bankrupted.

pm-me-yo-booty · 2015-06-07T13:48:01+00:00

This isn't a rape, no! This is a tribuuuuute.

Bluebird_North · 2015-06-07T02:35:33+00:00

Am I the only one who sees Feminists and the religious right as allies in a sex negative agenda?

jimmybrite · 2015-06-07T05:23:56+00:00

This is crazy, I mean who the fuck would bang her after all that?

SoWoWMate · 2015-06-07T12:42:06+00:00

Oh lord, day by day feminists look more andmore like a bunch of mentaly unstable weirdos.

AssEatingSlasher · 2015-06-07T14:26:29+00:00

Even if she had been raped I'd be losing sympathy at this point.

Victims shouldn't make victimization into their only "quality." Pretending to be a victim, and acting like this, says something about the way she views real victims, as just that. Not people who have been victimized, but just plain victims.

Shit, am I making sense?

2015-06-07T08:42:47+00:00

She takes it up the arse like a champ to be fair.

Imnotmrabut · 2015-06-07T10:24:19+00:00

I do think the title may be more accurate if it read, "Emma Sulkowicz reenacts "Performance Art" as "Rape".".

2015-06-07T15:29:07+00:00

Jesus, she's an idiot.

Kart0ffel · 2015-06-07T15:35:54+00:00

Stop giving her attention and she'll go away.

I'm sick of hearing about her and her stupid shit in my news feed every other day.

Frittern · 2015-06-07T16:32:20+00:00

It seems to me this young women is Ill and suffering from something like Histrionic personality disorder. It's a very hard disorder to treat and her future will be paved with volatile hardships.

Think of Histrionic PD like a pathological addiction to drama it eventually burns out the relationships with family and friends, the relationships that help you stay grounded in reality. Once all the anchors to reality are cut people suffering from this can fall into a full on delusional state.

thalos3D · 2015-06-07T18:19:53+00:00

Chick has mental health issues.

truthandjustice8762 · 2015-06-07T18:41:01+00:00

what a psycho lol

ShortDevil101 · 2015-06-07T18:57:35+00:00

What a psycho

Lamb3ntSpartan · 2015-06-07T12:37:46+00:00

was the video removed?

machocamacho88 · 2015-06-07T13:43:24+00:00

So she has the energy to put out a very bad sex tape, but not the energy to bring a serial rapist to justice. Seems legit.

whatsazipper · 2015-06-07T14:46:46+00:00

She has a jaded view of reality

higherprimate718 · 2015-06-07T15:45:03+00:00

why cant I find this on r/ news?

2015-06-07T20:57:38+00:00

Reminder that she refused to actually bring the man to trial because she said it would be too emotionally tragic to her to have to recount the incident. Yet literally reenacting her alleged rape is perfectly fine.

She's completely full of shit. I don't know if she's doing it for attention or if she thinks there's gonna be money in it, but without a doubt she's a liar.

Stephen1985 · 2015-06-08T00:50:19+00:00

I got to the blowjob and im done, WTF is going on.

dangerousopinions · 2015-06-08T06:26:20+00:00

So she just actually did, voluntarily, the actual thing she claims she was violated by. This is fucking absurd. And of course the typical "nobody reacts to trauma the way you expect them to" explanation. Like as if. Yes, that's true, but I think we can say safely that almost nobody who was actually victimized would voluntarily reenact the traumatic event, especially a rape reenactment with actual penetration.

Also, I really hate when art is just gross porn. I have no problem with porn, but you can't be like "no it's just art, not porn" when it by definition is porn and porn is an artform as much as any other anyway. Like if you suck a dick, it wasn't just an acting gig because you claim it so.

soratenia · 2015-06-08T06:49:12+00:00

Best thing to happen for Nungesser in his libel case against Columbia. The court will wonder why the university authorities didn`t realize from the very beginning that Emma is a raving mad nut case, better be placed into a mental ward.

Kobainsghost1 · 2015-06-07T06:27:50+00:00

Lamest Porno Ever Bruh...No cumshot or nothin

dkyguy1995 · 2015-06-07T13:31:06+00:00

What's the original story in all of this?

geniice · 2015-06-08T01:54:58+00:00

I don't get it. Still it comes with some text so lets see if that helps.

" Ceci N'est Pas Un Viol is not about one night in August, 2012. It's about your decisions, starting now. It's only a reenactment if you disregard my words. It's about you, not him.

Do not watch this video if your motives would upset me, my desires are unclear to you, or my nuances are indecipherable. "

Yeah I'm pretty sure I don't get it so fair enough.

"You might be wondering why I've made myself this vulnerable. Look—I want to change the world, and that begins with you, seeing yourself."

I already own a mirror and frankly I suspect you overestimate your abilities as an artist.

" If you watch this video without my consent, then I hope you reflect on your reasons for objectifying me and participating in my rape, for, in that case, you were the one who couldn't resist the urge to make Ceci N'est Pas Un Viol about what you wanted to make it about: rape.

Please, don't participate in my rape. Watch kindly. "

No we've already established that I souldn't watch it.

"Here are a few questions to help you reflect.

Searching: Are you searching for proof? Proof of what?"

Well pretty much everything. But really its best to leave that kind of question to the physicists (the problem with asking the chemists and biologists is that at this point they could tell you how much it would cost to get an answer).

"Are you searching for ways to either hurt or help me?"

Not really.

"What are you looking for?"

You first.

"Desiring:

Do you desire pleasure?"

Human beings generaly do

"Do you desire revulsion? Is this to counteract your unconscious enjoyment?"

Nah thats what liveleak is for

"Me:

How well do you think you know me? Have we ever met? Do you think I'm the perfect victim or the world's worst victim?"

I'm not sure there is an objective scale on these things. I mean technicaly going by bodycount the world's worst victim would have been stalin if someone did indeed poison him.

"Do you refuse to see me as either a human being or a victim? If so, why? Is it to deny me agency and thus further victimize me? If so, what do you think of the fact that you owe your ability to do so to me, since I'm the one who took a risk and made myself vulnerable in the first place?"

Are you trying to claim that people need to make themselves vulnerable for third parties to dehumanise them? There is a lot of historical evidence that suggests otherwise. 30 years war for example or the ongoing syrian civil war.

"Do you hate me? If so, how does it feel to hate me?"

You annoy me. There is a worthwhile debate to be had about consent (assent vs consent for example) and sexual behaviour at universities and you are getting in the way.

soratenia · 2015-06-08T05:46:10+00:00

Instead of a mattress she should carry a sign with "BEWARE - CRAZY" on it.

Sour_Badger · 2015-06-07T11:42:37+00:00

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ramot1 · 2015-06-07T05:04:41+00:00

My question about the video is: Why did they blur out the male face? I know that in some areas, publishing a video requires the legal consent of all who have faces displayed. Is that the case here? Or there may be so many viewers that didn't notice that this is a reenactment of an incident which may or may not have occurred, that such facial disclosure may actually create a likelihood of a physical attack on him?

spacedogg · 2015-06-07T05:00:53+00:00

Again, cunt.

soratenia · 2015-06-07T21:32:04+00:00

My God! I just saw her video clip. Emma is as mad as a march hare and a danger for evryone, including herself. Apart from being stark raven nuts she is fat and ugly as well.

imbored48375 · 2015-06-07T04:08:30+00:00

I actually know the guy (Columbia Class of '15 here) and am pretty positive he did it. I've had friends who have had run ins with him. He is not a good dude, and Emma is a lovely person.

wisty · 2015-06-07T08:49:38+00:00

Can people stop going after her? Please?

It's pointless. Even if you assume she's completely at fault (we just don't know), most people seem to be judging it even harsher than people on this sub.

Instead, let's remember a minute that she's the victim of enablers in the media. They pumped her and dumped her.

It's the media (and possibly academia) who savvy observers should be going after. Things didn't get to this point in a vacuum.

Title	Emma Sulkowicz reenacts "rape" as "performance art"
Author	Call_Me_Squiggle
Upvotes	537
Comments	212
Date	June 7, 2015 12:57 AM UTC (11 years ago)
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