Noor Noman: Whether it was “performance art” is beside the point. The fact that 'Beef' star David Choe described raping someone and remained unscathed speaks to a culture in which rape and sexual assault are normalized, even encouraged.
These responses — silencing in various forms — are completely in keeping with the rampant rape culture that allowed Choe’s career to flourish after he made such vile statements nearly a decade ago. Whether it was “performance art” is beside the point. The fact that Choe described raping someone in detail and remained unscathed for so long speaks to a culture in which rape and sexual assault are normalized, even encouraged. He was commissioned for a, which the art world protested to no avail .
At its root, this controversy foregrounds two major issues with the #MeToo movement. The first has to do with how we value survivors of sexual assault: In Choe’s story, the survivor of the assault was a Black woman who, as a massage therapist, is most likely from a lower socioeconomic class or at least possesses less clout than a world-famous artist/entertainer. “We are socialized to respond to the vulnerability of white women,” says activist Tarana Burke, founder of the #MeToo movement.
How else do we explain or understand the horrifying rape statistics? One in 5 people assigned female at birth experience attempted or complete rape, while over 80% report having experienced sexual harassment or assault, according to the. Rape and sexual assault are the natural conclusions of a culture in which sexual violence is normalized and glorified, from music to TV to podcasts to porn.
Even a fictional rape story is enacting its own form of violence, playing into and reinforcing values in which dominance is lauded and rape is one manifestation of this zero-sum construction of relations.
Understanding rape culture through this lens, it is all the more relevant that the survivor in Choe’s story is a Black woman. Dismayed fans of “Beef,” Wong and Yeun want answers about whether those involved with the show knew about this clip at the time of casting.. In disavowing Choe and his comments, they have an opportunity to subvert the status quo, of which rape culture is an enormous part.
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