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AMERICAN ACTOR JASON Momoa has apologised for a rape joke that he made in 2011, in which he said that he liked his job because it allowed him to “rape beautiful women” on screen.
The Game of Thrones star has been coming under fire recently for the comments he made at a Comic-Con Q&A session.
When talking about the show, which features numerous rape scenes, the actor said:
“But as far as sci-fi and fantasy, I love that genre because there are so many things you can do, like rip someone’s tongue out of their throat and get away with it and rape beautiful women.”
Other Game of Thrones who were sitting alongside him on stage, including Lena Headey (who plays Cersei) and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (who portrays Jaime Lannister) drop their heads in their hands or looked embarrassed.
After coming under fire for the comments, which have resurfaced 6 years after they were made in the wake of the Weinstein sexual assault scandal, Momoa apologised for his comments today.
“I awoke in Australia to the justified reactions by many people to a distasteful joke I made years ago in Hall H for which I am sorry,” he said in an Instagram post.
I am still severely disappointed in myself at the insensitivity of my remarks that day. I know my sincerest apology now won’t take away those hurtful words.
“Rape and sexual harassment can reach anyone and I have seen first hand its painful torment among members of my own family and friends.
I made a truly tasteless comment. it is unacceptable and I sincerely apologise with a heavy heart for the words I said.
“All apologies, Jason.”
But although some people seemed to accept the actor’s apology, others on Twitter pointed out the problematic way in which rape is portrayed in Game of Thrones itself:
They should be hung drawn and quartered for making me use that pesky messenger app!
Did you read the terms for having that messenger app.
Aw, you ok hun?
@Alan, after checking out your link I feel great having always declined facebook’s incessant offer of the messenger app. That is some scary schizz. I certainly would have blindly accepted the terms and conditions
Thx for posting that
How is it even legal what they are
Doing..deleted.
The way I see it, if people want me they can text me or call and I can pick up my Facebook message on the laptop
If you read t+c’s of the journal the app can view and delete contents on your sd card. Why?
Thanks for that link Alan, have just deleted it from my phone!
After looking at Alans’s link I thought what a load of old nonsense.
The author is clearly pretty clueless about app permissions on android.
Why don’t you check the permissions of any other messaging app you have on android, they all have pretty much the same.
This is just the standard android permissions written to be as scary as possible.
Check out google hangouts now standard on android, not only does it have all these permissions but it can access your location at any time and read and edit your calendar at any time Gasp!
Just more ant-facebook ain’t I cool hipster nonsense.
If you are worried about Facebook and your privacy
Do not be on Facebook
sticking your ass in the air
like you just don’t care
You fine sir,deserve a medal
Like
Facebook is worth about $200 billion all thanks to the data you give them. they profit from data on users.
Are people “liking” this as a joke?
watch “terms and conditions apply” on Netflix. It will open your eyes.
seen it, recommend everyone sees it, though it confirmed what i’ve always known. planned obsolescence docu is another interesting one.
In those T&Cs posted by the Huffington post, what is meant by a malicious app may do this without your permission? Is it talking about the messenger app or what?
No it’s not talking about the facebook app.
They are standard permissions that any app can ask for.
If you install some dodgy app from somewhere and it asks for those permissions it can do dodgy things and record audio and video all the time.
The facebook app asks to record audio and take pictures so it can support its voice message and picture and video sending abilities.
Also, android users check this out….. Open google (assuming your signed in) click account > account history > places you’ve been.
You can select each date and it will show you exactly where you were etc. Why….? well each time you enable location for maps apps etc…. in the settings menu > Location > On… you will see the message below flash up. Agree or disagree….. always disagree.
Location Consent !
Allow googles location service to collect anonymous location data. Some data may be stored on your device. Collection may occur even when no apps are running.
these people are delusional if they think they’re gonna get any $ of that sociopath Zuckerberg
You’d think Facebook would have registered fbclaim.com along with 20,000 intelligible variations for just such an occasion.
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