I was reading up on a controversy concerning The Korean Englishman (Josh from Jolly) in October of 2020. This was during the pandemic and he planned a birthday party for his wife in Seoul (she’s Korean) and videotaped it. The Korean police did not take kindly to it and arrested them. There were other issues with the wife as well. The charges were eventually dropped in April, but many Koreans were done with them. The feeling I got from the things I read was that they had welcomed him into their country with open arms, and this was how he acted? No.
I did not go too deep because, frankly, whatever. But I was looking up something else related to Jolly, and this came up. There was a Reddit thread in which the OP bleated about forgiveness and second chances and cancel culture. My dude. Jolly is doing just fine. Korean Englishman is doing fine as well (I just checked). The latter is still around and getting 3+ million views per video. Josh’s apology video got over 4.5 million views. They are just fine. They will be just fine. So they got that second chance.
But. Even if they did not get the second chance, that’s capitalism, bay-bee. When people talk about the free market deciding (granted, that is mostly Americans and they need to shut their traps), this is exactly what they mean. If there had been enough people disgusted by what happened who turned off the channel that it caused the channel to be shut down, well, that would be the market deciding. When Americans bleat about free market, they never think about if it goes in the direction they would prefer it didn’t.
When marriage equality was an issue in America–and I hate that it was up for a vote in the first place–there was a gay bar in…I want to say Tucson, but really, it could have been anywhere that stopped allowing bachelorette parties in the bar while the debate raged on. They said, “We love our straight sisters, but if we can’t marry, you can’t drink here.” I applauded their decision and I hope that more places start doing this in response to religious freedom. Won’t bake a cake for a gay couple? Fine. Then gay bakeries don’t have to bake them for straight people. Also, as Margaret Cho said in one of her bits about gay men who worked in the wedding industry, “If we can’t get married, you can’t get married.”
It’s the same when Roe v. Wade was overturned. I was advocating a full Lysistrata for those who could afford to do it without putting themselves in harm’s way. Honestly, I’ve gone a long time without sex and I’m in peri-menopause. I’m not in any hurry to have PIV sex as long as I can conceivably, well, conceive. It’s just not that important to me, and I love PIV sex. But I love even more not having children. MN still has legal abortion, but I’m still mad over Roe v. Wade being overturned. Furious.