Jeremy Soule accused of rape

As with all allegations these days...



Honestly, I think this tidbit is far more interesting:

Who's gonna believe Zoe Quinn's rape allegations, of all people?

 

Well, there we go. Both Soule and Holowka have now lost their current job based on nothing more than unsubstantiated allegations made by questionable individuals. This is the "brave new world" that we live in, where a couple of blue checkmarks on Twitter can ruin your career, maybe your whole life, without a shred of evidence of any wrongdoing.

 

Yeah, in some of the recent cases, the accused have taken legal action and got some form of compensation. Unfortunately, even if one is later proved innocent, the damage is done and a lot of people hold no remorse because of the whole "believe rape victims" mentality, which is basically just a regression to the old draconian "guilty until proven innocent" principle. It doesn't even matter if the accuser is a pathological liar and an all-around pathetic excuse for a human being (like Zoe Quinn), as long as it's a woman and she's accusing a man (especially if he's white), all reason immediately flies out the window.

 

Well, this just turned even more morbid. After all the shit he's been through in the past week or so, Alec Holowka gave in to his depression and took his own life.

If you needed any more reason to hate Twitter and the culture we live in, there you have it.

 

Internet culture in general, it's not like it's limited to Twitter alone.

Baseless accusations, from someone fairly well known to sleep with men for personal gain many times before, and the guy loses his job and takes his life. Nice. Another high point in Twitter / Tumblr / whatever.

 

Oh look, a known liar proven to be lying. Who woulda thunk it?

https://www.thepostmillennial.com/exclusive-zoe-quinns-allegations-are-falling-apart/

The real tragedy is that this whole incident is likely to be forgotten in a few months and Quinn is going to continue leeching money from gullible folks simply on account of having the right set of genitals. Where's some good ol' social justice when you actually need it, eh?

 

Holy shit, not only is this woman not taking any responsibility for her actions, she re-activated her Twitter account to proclaim that she's the victim in all of this because people are demanding even the smallest shred of evidence for her allegations. And, of course, she couldn't wait to tell everyone that she got hired by DC to make a comic book for them now that she's got plenty of attention from this whole tragic saga. I honestly didn't think I could despise someone as much as I do her.

Haven't heard any news on the Soule case though, other than the fact that he denied the allegations, but he would do that regardless of his actual guilt.

 

I believe I saw a message from someone, expressing his/her support for Quinn because it had to be hard on her when Holowka killed himself after her accusations, and donating some money to her. People really only see what they want to see.

And for Quinn, apparently she can only see herself as blameless, anything that happens to her, or around her, is apparently someone else's fault. Another of those fairly common traits, though the extremes she seems to take it to, almost makes me think that she's somewhat of a sociopath.

 

The allegations have already been put into question by her own posts at the time of the alleged crime. Not to mention there hasn't been a single person who could corroborate her story. But the accused is dead now and dead men tell no tales. Yet, in spite of everything, even knowing her past, DC offered her a job, so she'll probably get off scot-free and people will take Alec's suicide as an admission of guilt.

Also, while men accused of rape did historically have a good chance to fight the allegations in court, let's not also forget that male rape or abuse victims had and still do have it much worse. In some cases, because of how rape is legally defined, they can't even bring rape charges against a woman. Rape cases are a shitshow in court either way, but inciting a witch hunt without even trying to go through official channels first makes you the bad guy, I don't care how bad you had it. That's just anarchy and has no place in the modern society.