Sorry about that, I just got really tired of the whole thing since, other than your very civil and respectful debates, which opened my eyes to a lot of facts and possible scenarios, every other note or reblog I’ve gotten since this case started has been angry trash-talkers. (excluding ones from friends, of course)
And while the analysis of this case had advanced and things were reconsidered, the others just continue to send hateful responses to outdated posts, with all of their ignorant assumptions and blind, “if one person is wrong the other must be a hero” attitude.
A flaw of tumblr’s reblog-based structure, I guess. New posts go completely unnoticed under the weight of the most heated ones. I suspect the hate-mail will continue coming in until they all forget about this incident entirely (and going by tumblr’s short attention span when it comes to social justice, I’m guessing it will be.. 6/20)
Anyways, my final conclusion on the quadcopter assault case is that I concede that Andrea Mears is an awful person who deserves the misdemeanor assault charge and is in need of the anger management they will surely sentence her with in addition to her fine, BUT I still think it’s really sketchy how big of a deal Austin Haughwout made over it and I still think he was trying to garner attention and pity-donations for personal gain. (We’ll see if he actually refunds the indiegogo money as he claims to intend to)
In addition, I also choose to not like the guy simply because of the great majority of the people who have supported him so fervently, both here on tumblr and on youtube. Rape-Apologists, MRAs, people proudly declaring violent intent towards not just Andrea but ALL women, and malicious bullies who deem it their mission to harass both the person who is already going to be punished for what she did, and anyone who dares question their beloved white-boy hero.
If I was Austin, I’d feel sick just knowing people like that made up the majority of my supporters…. then again, their comments aren’t the ones he’s chosen to remove from his youtube videos, so take that as you will.