Holy lord, I love Raffi. Sometimes, people who you like as a child turn out to be creeps. And sometimes, they turn out to be really great grown-ups (like Mr. Rogers, who was one of the loveliest humans ever). Right now, children’s singer-songwriter Raffi is taking to Twitter to lament the awfulness of Canadian teenager Rehtaeh Parsons’s recent suicide, and rape culture and slutshaming in general, specifically calling out men to address their own issues and adults to fix some of the systemic fuckups that lead to these tragedies.
“rape culture”? what has society become—who tolerates such hideous violence& insult to human dignity? MEN, Youth—SPEAK OUT!!
— Raffi Cavoukian (@Raffi_RC) April 12, 2013