wish literally any gay papers would talk about lil nas x cause every article is either written with contempt OR makes sweeping assumptions by only quoting the cops and blatantly lies about things they contradict in their own article. like how is there no coverage of support or efforts to keep an eye on his location?
shortest possible story is that he he got arrested and hospitalized after walking around outside at night, MAYBE having 'an episode', MAYBE he was drunk, maybe he was high, maybe he was just being loud, who knows. Dude was outside at night in boxers and cowboy boots and that's all he did to "invite" police interaction.
But cops claimed he assaulted them so he gets arrested. Then goes to the hospital. Then goes back into custody.
And then he's not heard of for a while, then days later says he's out and okay. But facing FELONY charges!
WHERE IS EVERYONE? Pinknews cunts? Them? OutMag? Hello??
I mean this without any hostility or patronization, but if you’re only looking on tumblr for people to be talking about this or for major news places to be reporting on it, you’re genuinely not looking far enough. This was the first thing I saw about it on the 22nd, so major queer outlets are and have been reporting on it.
Opinion: Mental illness in Black people is criminalized, and Lil Nas X being thrown to the ground and arrested is no laughing matter, Mey Ru
oh wow you guys got me, i guess the issue is over
oh WAIT
there are posts talking about why this is not a good article, which are now all unrebloggable from the OPs who posted the article, but like again, it's all speculation, wild leaps in assumption, and patronizing as all fuck, but I suppose being linked a patronizing article in patronizing reblogs is par for the course.
the above article assumes he had a mental health break, unconfirmed and also even if true, no more relevant than say, Brittany's break, but her shaving her head didn't have her face felony charges or demonization as "violent". the article then goes on to compare it to his publicity stunts, a cruel and disgusting piece of speculation from many bystanders, as it again places responsibility on him and pretends as if the violence he faced was some sort of "consequence" for a "bit".
They throw in a chunk at the end about risks Black men face in encounters with cops, but almost as a throwaway final thought and not the central theme of the situation.
Is he Unwell? Is it a Stunt? oh also here's times people were killed for something like what we think made the cops engage with him. and THEN still ties it back to his "stunts"
Lil Nas X went from a mental health emergency (we don't know that) to police custody to forced hospitalization. He's still in danger. The real victim in The Boy Who Cried Wolf (what???) isn't the townspeople; it's the boy who ends up being eaten by the wolf. (????) Here, the victim won't be the people who have worried about Lil Nas X in the past, only to realize he was promoting a new single; it will be Lil Nas X
Like what the fuck is THAT
The entire situation treats HIM like a pitiable incident at best when we know NOTHING about the situation because no one* is asking the right questions.
Only after corrections did Them counter their own initial drug speculation. PinkNews finally sort of covered it with one article quoting BBC quoting cops with a lot of weird phrasing such as "resulting in him being placed under arrested on suspicion of battery." How do you passive voice so hard that it sounds like nothing happened while also still presenting what the cops said as fact?
*Teen Vogue is one of the only papers that genuinely didn't take the cops' word for what happened and actually quote Lil Nas X's attorney and focuses on HIS experience with the situation.
"but if you’re only looking on tumblr for people to be talking about this or for major news places to be reporting on it, you’re genuinely not looking far enough"
Major news like BBC? ABC? NBC? CBS? AP? Reuters? Who are repeating cop lies and speculation and no gay papers are adequately refuting it? Like what I said??
Like way to share exactly the bullshit I'm talking about and presenting it like some sort of counter to anything I said. Even if the article wasn't ass, one paper, like Teen Vogue, being the only half-decent coverage that doesn't do cop work for them is a PROBLEM.
