Raven-Symonè Issues Statement Adding Clarity to Her 'Coming Out' Tweet

zaterdag 3 augustus 2013

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by Amy Boshnack 6 hours ago

 Every actor and actress that comes out in support support of gay marriage is a superstar in my opinion. The more the merrier. Let's get the word out that everyone should be treated equal. And so when Raven-Symonè tweeted that she can finally get married now -- many, many people cheered. Not just because she was helping to champion the cause of gay marriage -- but because she no longer felt the need to hide the fact she is gay. But wait ... maybe she was just doing what a lot of people have done before her ...  refusing to even entertain the idea of marriage until there was marriage equality for everyone.

Maybe she was officially coming out in her Tweet ... or maybe she was simply giving a shout out in support. Well, she's answered that question for us now ...

In an official statement, through her rep, Raven made things clear:

I am very happy that gay marriage is opening up around the country and is being accepted ... I was excited to hear today that more states legalized gay marriage. I, however am not currently getting married, but it is great to know I can now, should I wish to.

Man that must have been liberating. It's a terrible thing that still, today, people feel the need to hide who they really are because of fear of criticism or backlash from people they love -- and worse -- public outrage from ignorant people who don't understand the word acceptance.

It could not have been easy growing up as publicly as Raven grew up. She started out on The Cosby Show at age 3 for goodness sake! But she is 27 now ... and she should be proud of who she is!

Do you see a day in this country when there will be marriage equality for everyone?

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is as New York as you can get but somehow manages to hide that thick accent. Her work in TV news and print magazines didn't break her so, thankfully, now she's known as the "sugar" that makes The Stir just right. You can also catch her on The Daily Stir.

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Ariel Castro's Repugnant Victim-Blaming Statement Makes Us Glad He’ll Go Away Forever (VIDEO)

donderdag 1 augustus 2013

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by Kiri Blakeley 4 hours ago

Ariel Castro was sentenced to life in prison today. He was allowed to make a statement and it showed how deranged and sociopathic he is. In a rambling speech that focused mostly on himself, he made excuses for everything he did, refused all responsibility, and even made outrageous claims that the house where he tortured his victims was "normal" and "harmonious."

Castro has invented some kind of sick fantasy world in which the three women he kidnapped, Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight, may have been unable to leave his house, but were otherwise fine and content.

"I'm a good person," he told the judge. "I'm not a violent person. There was a lot of harmony in that house."

He went on to say that sex with the victims was mostly consensual and that they asked him for sex. "As God as my witness, I never tortured these victims, I never beat them," he claimed, despite reams of evidence to the contrary.

Earlier in the day, Castro's defense attorney pointed out that Amanda Berry had described sex with Castro that resulted in the birth of her daughter, Jocelyn, was "consensual." An expert ascribes this to Stockholm Syndrome, in which the kidnapped party eventually becomes so helpless and infantalized that the kidnapper is seen as the "parent."

Earlier testimony said that the women were bound with chains, forced to wear motorcycle helmets when raped, and were often starved, left in severe heat or cold, and otherwise tortured. Castro had the house rigged with a system of alarms that would go off if any of them tried to escape. He also had a gun and often showed it to them to "control" them as he admitted to police.

In his statement, Castro blamed his "sexual addiction" for his kidnapping of the women -- saying he couldn't control himself any more than an alcoholic could control drinking. He also blamed his "stressful" job as a bus driver. He even blamed the FBI for not questioning him sooner.

In his continued blaming of the victims, he said, "These girls were not virgins and had been with multiple partners before me. I did not prey on these women."

He said that since the women "looked" okay, and pointed to recent video of Amanda Berry "partying," then it was proof that they enjoyed being in the house and were not traumatized.

The depths of narcissism on display were truly astounding. As the judge reprimanded him: "You say there was harmony in that house, but I don't think one other person in America would agree with you."

Castro did apologize to the victims and even thanked them for some bizarre reason; however, it was clear from everything he said that this calculatingly cruel individual thinks he did nothing wrong.

He'll have a lot of time in prison to reconsider it.

Does this speech surprise you?

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