"Mattress Girl"

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Last edited Thu Dec 7, 2017, 01:14 PM - Edit history (1)

As i understand it Emma Sulkowicz, Mattress Girl, is a young woman who was a victim of campus sexual assault and felt she didn't get a fair hearing. She carries a mattress around campus to publicize her plight. I was on another board and a right wing poster thought it was the most ridiculous thing in the world. I answered that I might have chosen another way of protest but I empathize with her plight.

Sexual harassment/sexual abuse is no joke.


#metoo

[NCTraveler]

1. This was discussed at length here.

I think it was a couple of years ago. If I remember correctly, it was connected to her thesis.

[niyad]

2. the WOMAN (NOT "girl") was a victim of campus assault and the administration did nothing.

her protest was not ridiculous, it was meant to bring attention to the horrific problem of campus sexual assault. but, leave it to the assholes reichwingers to dismiss her.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

3. Dismiss her ? They mocked her.

I'm a guy but if someone sexually abused/assaulted me and got away with it I would be apoplectic .

BTW, wasn't there a similar case at Stanford where the rapist got a slap on the wrist.

[niyad]

6. yes. the perp, brock turner, was given 6 months (not the 14 years the prosecution

asked for), and he only served three of those six months. he is now asking that his conviction be overturned.

[snooper2]

4. multiple investigations did not conclude she was assaulted, but she did launch her "art" career

Have you seen her latest?

Now her "art" involves getting into a bikini, tied to a wooden post upside down and whipped with a belt. She even lets the audience join in and make the ropes as tight as possible...

you can learn more about her most recent "art" here LOL


Emma Sulkowicz Explains Her Provocative New Bondage-Based Performance Art

Emma Sulkowicz's next project will be an art sex dungeon.

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/emma-sulkowicz-ship-is-sinking-976988

[Lee-Lee]

5. She has a name- Emma Sulkowicz

Her case was a complicated one, but in the end she didn’t choose to pursue charges via the legal system, the prosecutors didn’t thing she gave a strong enough case to take to trial, and the campus proceedings didn’t rule the way she wanted.

So she decided to respond in her own way, with the performance art piece.

She also did a second performance art piece that was a totally re-enactment of the rape. I’m mean a full on sexual encounter on video that was consensual be re-enacted the rape. It’s a powerful tool to use to show the lines of consent and how consent can be withdrawn if you are in a setting teaching it where you can show and explicit video of that nature.