Weekly news for week starting 19th of September
by Adam Picton.
Now my first weekly news, isn’t really a news story. There
are many news stories about it, but I’d prefer to just go the source of it all.
This video stirred up a lot of controversy when it first hit
light sometime around last year. And while I know it’s satire, I wished it was
real. It’d be magical to have people this stupid on earth. The woman in the
video’s stage name is Cassidy Boon, and she is a journalist. She writes most of
her articles as the character Cassidy Boon and stirs up controversy for
attention. This is the most famous occurrence of this but it is certainly not
the only one. After some further research on her, I also found out she’s
written about Vegemite being racist, men can’t be raped and how Harley Quinn is
too sexy in Suicide Squad. But back to the topic at hand.
To summarize, the story is just Cassidy Boon saying
she nearly drowned and a man saved her, pulled her out of the water and
resuscitated her. But she is now trying to sue him for rape. Obviously this is
not real because Cassidy Boon is a character but I imagine that somewhere,
there must be somebody who would think this way. Somebody must be crazy enough
to honestly believe #saverape is a serious thing. Just watch the video for
context. This got me thinking about other controversial people who do it for
attention. Katie Hopkins is very much the same thing but on a larger scale and
who knows if her opinions are really hers or not. I personally don’t mind it
and while I think Katie Hopkins is a complete and utter (removed in post
because I remembered this was homework), I also think people take most
controversial writers too seriously. And some people even enjoy reading stuff
like this. It’s like a great movie villain that you really hate, but you love
to hate them. In conclusion, if people really want this kind of stuff to stop,
then all they really need to do is not feed it, but they do because the people
love drama and controversy and that’s never going to change.
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