Short opinion: It's Kesha's own fault for waiting so long to try and get out of the contract based on sexual assault, and now she is suffering consequences for it.
This isn't just an issue with Kesha - it's a massive issue in society right now when it comes to women and sexual assault period. One example is is this young woman from Baylor Uni who waited too long to bring to light rape charges against another student. Because she waited so long, there was no evidence left to convict him - just like the case with Kesha.
Are they at fault for being raped/abused/assaulted? Of course not. But that is the only mindset over half the people get set on when it comes to someone who speaks up for the accused. Not because we don't think they did it, but because the victim waited too long to do anything about it. They let any and all evidence disappear, and there is a perfectly good reason why that evidence is needed. There is always the case of consensual sex, but for whatever reason either party wants to claim rape. How is anyone to tell if it was actually rape, or a friendship gone awry? Especially when there is no evidence at that point?
So what, we are just supposed to automatically believe allegations of rape because it's such a sensitive issue? Let's just go see how many lives we can ruin, careers we can ruin, by doing this.
It's not right. Rape isn't right, sexual assault isn't right - but you know what also isn't right? Waiting months, even years after an incident happens (or maybe didn't happen), and trying to have something done about it. It's not going to happen, and it damn well should not happen.
Instead of trying to argue that Kesha should be allowed out of the contract - which she shouldn't, because there is no longer any evidence of her claims - we should be focusing on the fucking gigantic issue everyone is glossing over.
And that issue is pushing and pushing even harder to have women who unfortunately have gone through abuse like this to not wait, to stop putting sex in such a negative light, stop making it into a sensitive thing that is shameful to talk about - that way it won't be so goddamned difficult to stand up and say "I was raped/abused/whatever" and do something about it.
Because hiding it for how long after the fact is doing no one justice. Women have a responsibility to step up for themselves and speak up, instead of hiding behind the soft/dainty shield society's stereotype on the female gender has created.
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