Media: women need to speak out against abuse!
Kesha: I was raped
Amber Heard: I was abused
Media: you’re both lying, gold digging whores
Media: women need to speak out against abuse!
Kesha: I was raped
Amber Heard: I was abused
Media: you’re both lying, gold digging whores
Media: We can’t understand why no one comes forward about being sexually assaulted!
11 Different women: I was sexually assaulted by that man
USA electorate: *Makes him President*
Every time Trump says that “nobody” has more respect for women than he does I can’t help but agree with him. He is right. The Greek hero, Odysseus, also known as Nobody to the cyclopes Polyphemus, who traveled through dangerous waters and struggled for ten years to return to his wife does indeed have more respect for woman than Trump does.
Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another; rather, it teaches us to abide with the fact that, in their own way, all things are true, and helps us, in the face of this terrifying knowledge, continually push ourselves in the direction of Open the Hell Up.
Lost is art. Art challenges you to answer the questions yourself.