Man, NPR just said nice things about her too

[benndragon]

Via bikergeek, Amanda Palmer (as in Dresden Dolls and Neil Gaiman's fiancee) has jumped the hipster shark (warning: photos of graphic real-life violence). (For those who are unfamiliar with the phenomenon being enacted here, see hipster racism)

Not convinced this isn't simply a Twit moment[1]? See an explanation of her response to people being distressed

Comments

[thornedillusion]

I had liked what little I'd seen of her prior to the Evelyn Evelyn jackery. I was sort of willing to give her the benefit of the doubt after that, until it became clear that she hadn't learned a thing about why people were so upset by her "art". The whole Lady Gaga thing made me ill and I tuned out before the offending comments started.

Wow... Just... Wow

[tober]

Yeah, so cthulhia linked to this as well... and I'm both disgusted and confused. Unlike some other people around here, I don't actually know Amanda Palmer. I've heard some of her music and mostly I don't like it that much... but a lot of it seems to suggest that Ms. Palmer is pretty damn sensitive when it comes to "women's issues" (I put that phrase in quotes because I don't really like it but I'm not sure what else to use that's succinct)... which is fine... but I point it out because... one would think that she would also be sensitive enough to realize that there are a few things (e.g.- the klan, Hitler, various other acts of genocide) that one really cannot use in "irony" and retain one's sensitivity cred. Or maybe she doesn't care about that cred. One or the other. So either she's not so smart or she's not so sensitive. Or Lady Gaga threw her into such a blind rage that all that stuff went out the window? That would be a lot of rage over Lady Gaga - someone who seems to me, at the very very worst, mostly harmless. Well, that

[siderea]

but a lot of it seems to suggest that Ms. Palmer is pretty damn sensitive when it comes to "women's issues" (I put that phrase in quotes because I don't really like it but I'm not sure what else to use that's succinct)... which is fine... but I point it out because... one would think that she would also be sensitive enough to realizeErm, I don't know how to put this without spreading nigh-baseless rumor... Ms. Palmer often sings, powerfully and articulately, about feelings and experiences shared by females sexually traumatized as girls and young women. I don't know if she has identified herself as a sexual assault victim; she sings in the first person about things which are characteristic of being one. Certainly many sexual assault victims resonate powerfully to her work and find it validating