WWJD?
I know, I know, it's been a while. But why do a half dozen of you keep checking back here every day, anyway? I haven't taken a day off in nearly two months now and I'm still behind in schoolwork, and as issues in my personal life have taken a toll on my productivity I've found it simply impossible to justify spending any time playing around with this site. I came across something today, however, that I felt compelled to post here, if only for the few people who are still kicking around.Fifteen year old Ava Lowery of Alabama recently posted an extraordinary animation entitled "WWJD?" on her website, Peace Takes Courage. I came across it via coverage of her story in this article by Matt Rothschild of The Progressive. Just today Ava posted a new animation that is a collage of the death threats, rape threats, and other expletive-riddled (frequently misspelled) emails and phone calls and letters she has received since posting the WWJD piece. I encourage everyone to check out both of them while you wait for me to get through with school and get my act together with my own site. Peace.
posted by Isaac | 10:15 PM
4 Comments:
Thanks for the link to the animations
There's only one problem: Ava lied about those threats. The threats that she claims to have received in response to WWJD came not in the form of e-mails to her, but were posted on her own web forum at least 9 months before she produced WWJD.
I guess I don't understand the point. First of all, where are these posts from nine months ago that you're citing? A google search for Ava Lowery lied only turns up results about how the administration lied in the leadup to the war. "Ava Lowery lied" produces no results at all. So for starters you need to link to these old posts.
Taking for granted they exist, though, where did she actually say they were in response to the WWJD animation?
Finally, presuming both of the undocumented (and easily documented, if they were true) points you make are correct, who cares? Let's say you take the time to come up with the links to the forum and to quotes from her saying they were a response to WWJD. She received threats as well as graphic sexual and violent messages in response to the work she was doing at PeaceTakesCourage.com. Even if she erroneously suggested that these were a response to the WWJD piece, how does this change anything? What is the problem? Whether it was a response to this or other animations she's done, the point is exactly the same: that she's producing cool material and that the way people respond to it is to tell her they want to "jack off on her parents" and that they hope she is "raped while [her] corpse rots out in the sun."
In the end it's a fairly pathetic hair to be splitting, and like the threats themselves it is just another way of not responding to the message.
I get about 16 daily visitors to Before Dawn though I've only actually visited the blog myself a handful of times in the last month, I even forgot how to access the comment moderation :D I guess there will always be those strange and wonderful diehards :D
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