On the Cody Ko situation: 

Im seeing the at the whole internet is dog pilling on Brittany Broski for her poorly worded statement. As a victim myself, I completely understand and agree with the criticism, but I’m frustrated at the fact im not seeing a FRACTION of that heat dedicated to the other 90% of the commentary community that’s stayed silent. I haven’t seen this heat dedicated towards Kurtis, Drew, Danny, Noel Miller, or anyone else. Hell Noel Miller is still actively working with Cody Ko and I haven’t seen nearly as much criticism against him. But Brittany is the worst person alive for being one of the few who have said anything at all because of some (admittedly) terrible word choices? 

I just feel women get absolutely no grace and have to be perfect in every way or they get so much worse flak while men get praised for doing the bare minimum, and sometimes less than that.  

But maybe I’m a bit off base and I want to hear others thoughts on this situation. Am I missing something? 

Note: I know Brittany said some pretty disappointing statements when people asked her to talk about Palestine. But I’m speaking specifically to the Cody Ko situation. 


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I think people are particularly disappointed in her because she built a following on "speaking out" and "being a girls' girl" in very lib circles, so she built an audience that is now eating her up about her initial silence + terrible statement
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I mean there’s that, but I think it’s also because she’s collaborated with Cody a lot. I don’t even watch her and I know she’s been a big fan of his for longer than she’s been popular. 

In terms of proximity, she’s just much closer to him than Danny, Drew, Kurtis, etc. who collaborate with him once every few years.

That said, I don’t think any of these people should be catching flak for Cody’s actions, and I don’t know why so many people just assume they were aware of it and kept silent.
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You’re being up a good point about the consistency that she works with Cody. But yeah, I don’t get people assuming she or anyone else knew. I doubt Cody greets people saying “hi I’m Cody, I groomed a teenage girl when I was 25”. A lot of people didn’t know about these allegations until very recently.

I just find it weird the same group of people demanding everyone and their mom speak up on the situation are giving a pass to certain creators who have directly worked with him.
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