| re: Twitter blasts Spacey's combo 'apology'/coming-out statement | |
| Last Edit: gcarl44 09:06 pm EDT 11/01/17 | |
| Posted by: gcarl44 09:01 pm EDT 11/01/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Twitter blasts Spacey's combo 'apology'/coming-out statement - JereNYC 02:50 pm EDT 10/30/17 | |
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| First of all, I am not defending Spacey. Nor am I attacking Rapp. I don't think that all the facts are in, and I don't think we can know what really happened, nor should we assume to know and rush to judgement. If Spacey actually did something with intent, then he certainly can be labeled a pedophile. Here is what we do know: "From Rapp's description of the party, it certainly seems that neither Spacey nor any of the guests made any attempt to engage him in socializing and no one even missed him when he spent the entire party alone in Spacey's bedroom watching TV." He was there as a minor, unsupervised. Why? However, I would ask some questions. If Rapp was not enjoying himself because no one was paying any atttention to him, why did he not leave. Why did he choose to go into Spacey's bedroom to "watch TV" until all the guests had gone? When I was 14 and gay (longer than 30 years ago), I sought out older men (older than Spacey was then), and I am sure that Rapp, at the age of 14 and being in the theater, was more sophisticated about this world than I was at that age. If Spacey specifically invited him, why would he ignore him during the party? Is it even remotely possible that Spacey invited a group of people, and Rapp was in that group? Is it even further remotely possible that Spacey "laid down on him" because he was drunk and passed out? I have not seen any information anywhere that tells us what happened next, except that Rapp was able to get away. Why now? In the Weinstein cases, I certainly understand why they kept silent. But once Rapp was a grown man (30 years later) why didn't he do something? He would not have been afraid of reprisals that would have affected his career. He certainly had opportunities to at least confront his "attacker", if not go public. It will be interesting to see who else comes forward, but right now, as VILE as Spacey might have been, let us not rush to judgement. I do, however agree, that Spacey's coming out statement being made a part of his apology was, at the very least ill advised, and placed an entirely different tone on the matter. It made it sound more like an excuse than an apology. That is horrific. |
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