Demi Lovato's Funniest Prank was Sexually Assaulting a Man

Oooo she pulled the ole "I know what abuse is" excuse. Telling people to have compassion for her when she clearly has none for her victim. Despite being a victim of it herself, she lacks the empathy to even consider it from the other persons perspective. She can't even take two seconds to imagine how she would have felt if her abuser had gone on twitter claiming it was a prank. Then when people got upset that abuser just claimed those upset would be offended by anything. She claims people should have compassion for her making a single mistake but she never even apologised for it. She clearly doesn't see it as a mistake. Which is evident in her responses where she downplays it, insults those that were upset by it and basically claims it was fine because she has been abused and has mental heath issues. She keeps trying to being up "her story" like it gives her a magical free pass for one sexual assualt.

Being the victim of sexual abuse does not mean you get off lighter when you do it or take actions that knowingly lead to it happening to someone else. If anything it makes it worse, she of all people she should know what she did was not ok. Fuck she even used the words "without his permission", if there was a text book case, it would include the words "without their permission". Being a victim of a traumatic experience isn't a free pass to enacting that traumatic experience on another.

As for the whole male angle of it, I usually don't like to get into that debate (here from r/all) but I have noticed that out of the sites that have picked it up very few are admonishing her for it. They are just reporting some people on twitter are upset, so there seems to be a double standard unfortunately, though it hasn't had time to fully develop yet. I suspect her next move will be to get Max to go on record claiming he thought it was funny, which even if he was genuinely ok with it would be completely irrelevant. It would basically just mean she got lucky.