{"id":5760,"date":"2013-09-09T12:42:52","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T12:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.transversalmedia.eu\/outrage-fatigue-and-tabloid-culture\/"},"modified":"2013-09-09T12:42:52","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T12:42:52","slug":"outrage-fatigue-and-tabloid-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theresearchpapers.org\/archive\/outrage-fatigue-and-tabloid-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Outrage fatigue and tabloid culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So now, people are talking about \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.feministe.us\/blog\/archives\/2013\/09\/07\/reluctantly-wading-into-the-hsewer-again-for-the-record\/\">HS fatigue<\/a>\u201d. \u201c<em>Tired of talking about this guy\u201d, \u201coh gosh, are we still talking about this?\u201d, \u201cman, I wish we could just move on<\/em>\u201d. It\u2019s a litany of faux exhaustion and boredom. \u201c<em>Can\u2019t you see I am saturated of this media ennui? Can you please entertain me with something else? Can we please find the next topic to be outraged with?<\/em>\u201d. Because, of course, the audience is bored and what are these women still ranting about? Didn\u2019t they get enough attention already?! I get it. I am exhausted as well. Only, I am exhausted for a slightly different reason. I am exhausted from talking about racist misogyny and erasure. I am exhausted of this ahistorical approach to outrage and the news cycle. I am exhausted waiting. And waiting. And waiting. Feminist accountability has become my own personal Godot wherein I sit here and wait for it to happen and it comes in a slow dripping motion, if at all.<\/p>\n<p>Because while \u201cthe audience\u201d experiences this outrage fatigue, I still wait for Jessica Coen to say something, anything about this whole situation, including the part where she is the Editor in Chief of a site aimed at young women; not unlike the young women the man she paid to write was sleeping with and abusing his position of authority over.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Because while \u201cthe audience\u201d collectively rolls its eyes and wishes for a new scandal to break so that they can be upset and moved and shaken, I am still waiting for words from at least, two paid xoJane employees who systematically attacked any dissent over this abuser. While they remain silent on the topic, one of them, <a href=\"http:\/\/web.stagram.com\/p\/540070946561033103_208634575\">Emily McCombs posts \u201cfunny\u201d stuff like this on her Instagram<\/a>, mocking the very same behavior she was supporting a mere 8 weeks ago. No word on Mandy Stadtmiller\u2019s attacks on anyone who so much as voiced disapproval of this man\u2019s behavior or ideology. Not a peep from Jane Pratt who actually has these two editors on her payroll, enabling this abuser on behalf of her \u201cbrand\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Because while \u201cthe audience\u201d wishes for tabloid gossip on someone new, we still haven&rsquo;t heard a single apology from Clarisse Thorn who inflicted her repulsive rhetoric on us defending this man, subsequently got linked and quoted as an authority on his posts on Jezebel as reward to her loyalty and landed a series of international speaking gigs as an \u201cexpert\u201d. Yet, she hasn\u2019t so much as typed a single sentence acknowledging not merely her approval of his behavior, but her active role in the abuse he unleashed on so many.<\/p>\n<p>Because while \u201cthe audience\u201d would like a quicker turn over of newsworthy topics, Amanda Marcotte has clearly stated she has nothing to say about this, and that she is triggered by the demands that she acknowledges the role she played in silencing some women facilitating the modus operandi and cooperating with the abuser in question.<\/p>\n<p>So, while I understand the fatigue, what I am waiting for has absolutely nothing to do with the news cycle or the tabloid culture we are forced to endure in lieu of feminist critique. I wish for long term acknowledgement, not twitter outrage and the further development of a pathetic man\u2019s meltdown. I wish for historic accuracy and archival memories so that when this happens again (and it will), we know where we all stood and on behalf of what we stood. I am not here to entertain anyone and without speaking on behalf of anyone else, I\u2019d suspect that neither are the other women involved in this situation. I, too, have a deep and numbing fatigue. It comes from bearing the marks of a racist and misogynist structure that enabled this man to act on its behalf. I don\u2019t give half a damn about the man in question. He is a stain in my radar. However, I cannot (and will not) stop using this sample case as a metonymy for all the other issues we should not stop talking about. I fear that \u201cHS fatigue\u201d is now a stand in for \u201ctalking about racist misogyny fatigue\u201d and I simply won\u2019t have that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So now, people are talking about \u201cHS fatigue\u201d. \u201cTired of talking about this guy\u201d, \u201coh gosh, are we still talking about this?\u201d, \u201cman, I wish we could just move on\u201d. It\u2019s a litany of faux exhaustion and boredom. \u201cCan\u2019t you see I am saturated of this media ennui? 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