With Comic Artist Ed Piskors death, has Me Too gone too far? How Me Too can change.
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- Опубліковано 26 лис 2024
- CW: Suicide, Sexual assault.
This weeks episode is gonna be heavy. Ed Piskor was a talented comic artist behind Hip Hop Family Tree, Red Room, X-Men Grand Design, and also Cartoonist Kayfabe. After one woman came forward regarding problematic and creepy direct messages to her while she was underage, and another came forward alleging he offered industry connections in exchange for sexual favors, Ed Piskor took his own life after posting a detailed online rebuttal/apology/explanation and suicide note.
I'm not here to take the side of accusers, or to excuse Ed's alleged behavior. What I am here to say is complex and nuanced, but the gist is this: Making someone so socially radioactive that they kill themselves isn't solving the problem of grooming, sexual assault, or sexual harassment. It's compounding injustice on injustice, and I think there's better paths through community support.
Maybe hear me out here, folks. If we want changed and better behavior, everyone involved has to be treated like a human being, even if they've done bad things.
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With Comic Artist Ed Piskors death, has Me Too gone too far? How Me Too can change.
I wonder if he sought therapy.
Therapy for what? He didn't hurt anyone.
Bro do you understand that be you using as many qualifiers as you have that me too and cancel culture has already gone too far. You’re so afraid of offending anyone that you’re preempting everything you say. And yeah, if you think that a few screenshots of messages out of context warrants action taken then YOU 👏🏻 ARE 👏🏻 PART 👏🏻 OF 👏🏻 THE 👏🏻 PROBLEM
I seem to have offended you and I deeply apologize.
I’m not concerned with having offended anyone here. I’m asking for every human being involved with things like this to be treated like humans. I get it, nuance is hard. Thanks for watching!
@@TheDOOMCASTyeah there was nuance and you didn’t get it. There’s one victim in all this and that’s Ed. If you looked into it at all, the 21 year old who claimed she was “groomed” even though it barely qualifies as bad flirting, then claimed that she has evidence that he did it to other young women. That was to make everything look worse than it was. Intimate that Ed has a history of abusing women to really get him. It’s been 2 months and surprise surprise, no one else except for a jilted ex said anything. Molly D wanted to blow something out of proportion to destroy a man’s life and instead of the adults in the room looking at the case and determining that what Ed did was stupid at best and made a one-time mistake and that everyone should move on, people blew things completely out of proportion because a woman made a baseless accusation and white knights such as yourself can’t help but reflexively defend m’lady. I don’t need to defend women I don’t know at all costs to feel better about myself. They’re grown, they can deal with it themselves. There is no need for a fantasy tribunal and no need for people like you to get involved at all. Let the cops and the lawyers do their jobs so sit down, shut up, stay in your lane and mind your damn business.
Very refreshing take on this! Everyone seems to blame the culture around ed's passing rather than Ed. What would it have been like if he had owned what had happened and shown what happens when you own mistakes and work past them.
He only lived for a week after the news broke out and I doubt he tried therapy! What an example he could have been for the people reading his books, his fans and the comic book community ! Now its just increased the dived between understanding and blame!
Seriously great vid
I dont know if your religous or not and I dont care, honestly, forgiveness is something I had to learn the hard way and it's nice to hear a solid perspective on this.❤
@@wetnoodlesdoodles agreed and I appreciate this. At the end of the day, with any friends I’ve lost to suicide I’ve had to learn to accept the decision was ultimately theirs and not something I could have prevented. That said being an ear, offering perspective and comfort for people who are suffering or hurt, even if that hurt is due to backlash from their own actions is still important. It’s nuanced and yes I do wonder if he’s come right out and owned it, would it be different? i don’t know. I’d really like to see a path back. It makes it harder with people who are sort of arrogantly unable to take responsibility like this latest thing with Dr Disrespect. But there needs to be some path to atonement through accepting responsibility for people who are willing because it would show other people who have made mistakes they can also change.
@@TheDOOMCAST I couldnt agree with you more. Opening a discussion as a pathway to move forward is so difficult. owning my mistakes and taking accountability continue to be the most challenging aspects of my life.
I deeply respected Ed and the work he had done with Jim and many other creators as well as strengthening the comics community as a whole. And thanks again for taking a new, often overlooked aspect of his passing. Instead of blaming everyone else! therapy is so overlooked these days. I encourage anyone going through stuff to hit up a therapist or counselor it really helps a helluva lot!
Thanks again for such an engaging discussion.