User blog:GizmotheMogwai17/An Apology

In wake of all the recent sexual harassment scandals, I would like to apologize for a comment I made last year that may have come across as a bit insensitive and unintentionally offensive. Although the comment has since been deleted, anyone with access to Wayback Machine could be looking at it right now as we speak. But anyway, last Fall on the page of the Josh character I posted a comment where I said that I'm never going to think of his episodes the same way anymore and even went as far as to compare him to Bill Cosby. I feel awful about the Cosby part of that statement because it may have seemed that I was belittling the importance of the issue of sexual harassment. Although Josh said and did some things I don't approve of, comparing him to someone like Bill Cosby is VERY insensitive to all of the people who have actually been sexual assaulted in real life. Claiming that simply being lazy and rude like Josh was is a bad as sexual harassment is downright awful and I'm sorry if it came across as though I was downplaying the seriousness of the horrible act of sexual harassment by comparing it to something that in retrospect, isn't near as despicable. I'm not in any way condoning the things said by the User in question but things like murder and rape are much higher on the evilness scale than the things he had done. I did not mean that in the least and simply meant that the whole "art vs. artist" debate was affecting me in concerns to Josh at the time because honestly, it was. That debate doesn't only apply to sexual harassment. Plenty of people had an "art vs. artist" crisis when the Dixie Chicks made a rude comment after 9/11 or when Paula Dean dropped the N-bomb or when John Lennon claimed that the Beatles were "bigger than Jesus" back in the 1960s. Although the "art vs. artist" debate has become mainly associated with harassment due to the #MeToo movement, I did not intend the comment to be the least bit insensitive and strongly apologize if anyone took it that way. I am one percent against all of those evil people who sexually abuse people to get their own way. It is an issue that makes me sad and I truly feel for any victims of such horror. Keep in mind that I was just referring to the whole "art vs. artist" debate in regards to any and all controversy as a whole (as opposed to just rape) and would never intentionally mock such a horrible thing.