In what some are calling a misogyny-driven overreaction, netizens are calling for the public decapitation of Lisa Young, an American singer-songwriter who rose to prominence earlier this year, for having called a group of photographers “weird.”
A video, released last weekend on TMZ, featured a distressed Young telling ten photographers gathered by her residence, “Why are you in front of my house? You guys are so f**king weird.”
“Ungrateful b**ch,” one netizen wrote. “She deserves to be violently murdered in a grainy video that gets disseminated across the dark web.”
“The photographers are just doing their job,” another netizen commented. “I think Lisa should be forced on her knees and decapitated with a samurai sword in front of a popcorn-chewing audience for what she has done. Her head should clunk against the floor with the thud of a book being closed in a silent library.”
Another stated, “If Lisa isn’t punished for what she’s done to the paparazzi, I’m going to kill myself.”
In a public apology, Young said, “While I am sorry for the hostility of my language, I do feel that I am entitled to my own privacy, and I hope that people can respect that more in the future.”
Since then, a petition for the public decapitation of Young has garnered 10 million signatures. In light of the overwhelming outcry, we at the Campus Times decided to ask for some legal insight from Misha Jonisch, JD. “Yeah, once you’re famous, you release your right to privacy,” he stated. “Like, it would be totally okay to peek through someone’s bathroom stall and secretly put cameras in their house if they’re famous.”
When asked for his thoughts on the possibility of misogyny motivating calls for the public decapitation of Young, Jonisch said, “It’s just human knowledge that if women want to be treated with basic respect, they should stay out of the public sphere. Mind you, there’s a lot of male public figures that get critiqued too, for example, Benito Mussolini.”
The Supreme Court has decided that, should the petition get 5 million more signatures, the execution of Young shall take place in Times Square in Manhattan, NY.
