Shia LaBeouf talks about rape while doing performance art piece

He allowed the crowd to say and do anything. Nothing was stopping him from stopping the woman if he felt she crossed the line. Nothing was stopping him from shutting down the event but he kept going. He could have talked to his girlfriend and he refused. It's like a guy at Folsom willingly putting himself on a sling, having sex then saying he was raped much later.

Wildcard--I agree with you. And yet, I know from experience sometimes when things like that start happening you do just freeze up. So... That said. Ugh, I shouldn't even make this statement, but I don't buy it. This is the same guy who apparently had no idea he was at a broadway play when he saw Cabaret but thought he was at an actual cabaret (I've been drunk and high off my ass before--I've never been that delusional.)

I guess I watched the Kimmel interview with a different point of view. You are right, though, he did seem to think the audience was part of the act.

This was posted on my FB wall:

"I have no trouble believing he was raped. I don't think he should have had to take safety precautions. What I do have trouble buying is why a person who is not being physically overpowered (meaning held down, held at knife or gun point, or threatened with harm unless one complies) would allow the rape to happen in the name of their art. Rape by definition is being forced either through physical or emotional intimidation. I can understand being committed to one's performance art to this degree, but then is it rape? If part if the point of your art is to show what humans can/will do in these situations, than the physical or emotional abuse levied is part of that art.

Saying later that it is rape changes it from an organic product of that artistic piece to an outside act - and if that is how one views it, then the assault should not have been accepted. From his own account, it appears that Labouef sat passive as he was stripped and raped.

One cannot claim that the events that occur cannot be interfered with in the name of art, while at the same time saying that actions taken against him or her and not defended against (in other words accepted) were rape.

He was not incapacitated. Do artists not also have a responsibility to defend the integrity of their work? It's either part if the art or it's not, but by not defending himself and later calling it rape, he cheapens both his art and the true intimidation of rape."

He's a pathetic piece of SH*T.

For us to even discuss this as rape is an insult to every woman who has ever been raped.

How long until he stages his public suicide? Even that would be an insult to suicide victims.

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Did he say how he was penetrated? I'd like to be able to picture it.

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he was forced to penetrate her.

OH that poor woman- she'll never feel clean again.

Was it Bill Cosby who raped him?

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For us to even discuss this as rape is an insult to every woman who has ever been raped.

Or man. But, yes.

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