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‘Mattress Girl’ Emma Sulkowicz Releases Crappy Porn Video With French Title

Posted on | June 5, 2015 | 145 Comments

“Ceci N’est Pas Un Viol” is French for “This Is Not a Rape” and if recent Columbia University graduate Emma Sulkowicz intended this eight-minute video as “art,” it’s very bad art. Sulkowicz claimed she was raped by fellow student Paul Nungesser, who was cleared of wrongdoing in subsequent investigations by the university and by New York City police. Sulkowicz then made herself famous by carrying a mattress around campus as a senior art project to publicize her (disproven) accusation; in April, Nungesser filed a lawsuit against Columbia (see “Emma Sulkowicz Is a Vindictive, Dishonest and Crazy Slut — Allegedly”).

Natasha Vargas-Cooper at the feminist blog Jezebel writes:

Artnet has confirmed that Emma Sulkowicz . . . is behind the website “Ceci N’est Pas Un Viol.” The site hosts an artist’s statement from Sulkowicz, who graduated from Columbia in May of this year, and a video she filmed with director Ted Lawson several months ago over the university’s winter break.
The eight-minute video features Sulkowicz and a man, his face blurred, engaging in what appears to be consensual sex that turns violent. The unidentified man open-palm slaps Sulkowicz, chokes her, removes the condom, then continues to have very rough sex with Sulkowicz, who whimpers and protests from pain.

Is that actually Emma in the video? I didn’t watch it myself, so I can’t say whether the unattractive blue-haired woman in the video is her or not. Either way, the site at which she posted the video is full of craziness:

Trigger Warning: The following text contains allusions to rape. Everything that takes place in the following video is consensual but may resemble rape. It is not a reenactment but may seem like one. If at any point you are triggered or upset, please proceed with caution and/or exit this website. However, I do not mean to be prescriptive, for many people find pleasure in feeling upset.
Ceci N’est Pas Un Viol is not about one night in August, 2012. It’s about your decisions, starting now. It’s only a reenactment if you disregard my words. It’s about you, not him.
Do not watch this video if your motives would upset me, my desires are unclear to you, or my nuances are indecipherable.
You might be wondering why I’ve made myself this vulnerable. Look—I want to change the world, and that begins with you, seeing yourself. If you watch this video without my consent, then I hope you reflect on your reasons for objectifying me and participating in my rape, for, in that case, you were the one who couldn’t resist the urge to make Ceci N’est Pas Un Viol about what you wanted to make it about: rape.
Please, don’t participate in my rape. Watch kindly.

As if this wasn’t crazy enough, Sulkowicz then appends “a few questions to help you reflect,” which include these:

  • How well do you think you know me? Have we ever met?
  • Do you think I’m the perfect victim or the world’s worst victim?
  • Do you refuse to see me as either a human being or a victim? If so, why? Is it to deny me agency and thus further victimize me? If so, what do you think of the fact that you owe your ability to do so to me, since I’m the one who took a risk and made myself vulnerable in the first place?
  • Do you hate me? If so, how does it feel to hate me?

Comments at the site range from crude to hilarious. This is not an art project. This is what we call “a cry for help.” Feminism often functions as a substitute for therapy, but not an effective substitute. Crazy women who become involved with feminism just keep getting crazier.

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Comments

145 Responses to “‘Mattress Girl’ Emma Sulkowicz Releases Crappy Porn Video With French Title”

  1. Matt_SE
    June 5th, 2015 @ 1:05 pm

    I think I heard that both her parents are psychologists…or psychiatrists…I can never keep those two straight.
    Anyway, you know what they say about those people.

  2. Matt_SE
    June 5th, 2015 @ 1:11 pm

    I’m still waiting for Senator Kirsten Gillibrand to embrace this new exhibit. I want someone to show her the porn, LIVE, and film her reaction.

  3. Guest
    June 5th, 2015 @ 1:33 pm

    This psycho is incredibly lazy, her art pieces are a mattress and extremely amateur porn, anyone could put these projects together in about 5 minutes. The video itself is trash. Terrible camera angles and a lackluster performance from the actors. A JC Penny would provide better fap material.

  4. Guest
    June 5th, 2015 @ 1:34 pm

    *JC Penny catalog

  5. Bob Belvedere
    June 5th, 2015 @ 1:38 pm

    I think he was from Germany, which might explain a lot.

  6. Art Deco
    June 5th, 2015 @ 2:11 pm

    “Sulkowicz” looks more Polish than Jewish to me. “Kerry”, her father’s name, looks oddly out of place with “Sulkowicz” (or, really, on any grown man).

  7. Art Deco
    June 5th, 2015 @ 2:17 pm

    Psychiatrists attend medical schools followed by residencies and fellowships.

    Psychologists may be academic or vocational in character. The former receive their education in arts and sciences faculties and follow subdisciplines which are all over the map, covering a territory which runs from just this side of sociology to just this side of neurology. The latter may be trained in arts-and-sciences faculties, education faculties, special-purpose faculties, or a mix of them (one for undergraduate, one for graduate work). Professional psychologists may be of the industrial / school variety and be employed in skills assessment and whatnot, the rehabilitation variety and work with stroke patients and whatnot, or the clinical / counseling variety and undertake talk therapies.

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  9. Matt_SE
    June 5th, 2015 @ 2:40 pm

    Yeah…I don’t care enough to remember that.
    Thanks though.

  10. Ben Franklin
    June 5th, 2015 @ 2:44 pm

    Is Columbia going to give her post-graduate credit for this?

  11. concern00
    June 5th, 2015 @ 3:47 pm

    Only a matter of time before the co-star gets accused of rape.

  12. Fail Burton
    June 5th, 2015 @ 4:13 pm

    Perhaps she didn’t have change for a nickel

  13. Jim R
    June 5th, 2015 @ 4:26 pm

    Good heavens.

    My very slight compensation is that at least some of the white kids who fall for this claptrap are in for a huge suprise when, in the future, they try to make out that they are “allies”… and are persecuted by the colored* kids who also bought into it.

    =====

    (*) Colored in this context is anybody not “white”.

  14. BozoerRebbe
    June 5th, 2015 @ 4:55 pm

    Does Emma realize that there are guys out there fapping to her video?

  15. Zohydro
    June 5th, 2015 @ 5:09 pm

    We could expect better from Yoko Ono!

  16. Daniel Freeman
    June 5th, 2015 @ 5:25 pm

    I think in that case the 5th Amendment would prevent them from forcing you to testify against yourself, so just don’t leave any evidence or witnesses and you should be safe from prosecution.

  17. Daniel Freeman
    June 5th, 2015 @ 5:32 pm

    Her father’s clientele is supposedly drawn mostly from the ranks of corporation executives. I think I know what that means.

    That his experience helping high-functioning sociopaths was not much use in dealing with a daughter with BPD?

    ETA: I’m joking, of course. I knew what you meant: he’s probably quite well-off.

  18. Lulu
    June 5th, 2015 @ 5:34 pm

    wow just wow — I would not leave her alone with pets or children she’s crossed to scary crazy

  19. Daniel Freeman
    June 5th, 2015 @ 5:44 pm

    For me, it’s a contest between morbid curiosity and my better judgment. So far reason is winning.

  20. Adobe_Walls
    June 5th, 2015 @ 6:10 pm

    Careful.

  21. Jim R
    June 5th, 2015 @ 6:32 pm

    Ditto.

  22. Adobe_Walls
    June 5th, 2015 @ 6:34 pm

    Indeed.

  23. Matt_SE
    June 5th, 2015 @ 6:36 pm

    I agree.
    The sex was not hot, and the production values were low. There wasn’t even a pizza guy!
    1/4 erect.

  24. ChandlersGhost
    June 5th, 2015 @ 6:38 pm

    I hate to blame the victim here, but Paul Nungesser stuck it in the cray.

  25. Daniel Freeman
    June 5th, 2015 @ 6:39 pm

    I use this memory trick: psychos can’t write prescriptions, so the other ones are M.D.s.

  26. theoldsargesays
    June 5th, 2015 @ 6:46 pm

    Of course they did, you should’ve seen her before.

  27. theoldsargesays
    June 5th, 2015 @ 6:56 pm

    Brave man- taking one for the team as it were.
    Me, I’m trying to kick the habit of just clicking away- I’ve found that I end up seeing too many things that I wish I hadn’t but now cannot be unseen.
    Gotta be especially careful around here. :-

  28. theoldsargesays
    June 5th, 2015 @ 6:57 pm

    Thanks for the trigger warning!

  29. Michael McNeil
    June 5th, 2015 @ 7:32 pm

    Lets just say they won’t be using this video as an inducer of happy endings at your local sperm bank.

  30. theoldsargesays
    June 5th, 2015 @ 7:39 pm

    THIS cannot be stressed enough. Its no longer a matter of but when this nation will ultimately cease to exist.
    Some European nations may outlast us but most will not.

  31. theoldsargesays
    June 5th, 2015 @ 7:42 pm

    What immediately came to my mind was will Emma Sulkowicz and Miriam Weeks be doing a lesbo movie together.
    (Sick I know, it’s kind of a Marine thing.)

  32. BozoerRebbe
    June 5th, 2015 @ 8:57 pm

    The phrase, “I wouldn’t fuck her with someone else’s dick” comes to mind.

  33. BozoerRebbe
    June 5th, 2015 @ 8:58 pm

    Or Emma and “Caitlyn” Jenner

  34. Jeanette Victoria
    June 5th, 2015 @ 10:34 pm

    I sing and I have a deep vocie it has dark undertones, that means some folks will not like my voice. I can’t imagine getting upset becuase someone prefer women who sing soprano over one who has a deep alto/contralto range.

  35. Prime Director
    June 5th, 2015 @ 10:59 pm

    Ceci N’est Pas Un Viol

    Is this an allusion to Magritte’s The Treachery of Images?

    “The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it’s just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture “This is a pipe”, I’d have been lying!

  36. Steve Skubinna
    June 5th, 2015 @ 11:27 pm

    So she and Lena Dunham come from the same incubator of stupidity?

  37. Steve Skubinna
    June 5th, 2015 @ 11:30 pm

    I expect that any university would be an incestuous muddle. Everyone’s vested in the prevailing idiocy, and even if they can spot if for what it is, it’s the only game in town and the track to tenure.

  38. Steve Skubinna
    June 5th, 2015 @ 11:35 pm

    A few years ago a co-worker told me about “Two Girls, One Cup” as an example of something NOT to watch. I took his advice to heart and have never seen it.

    This is in the same category. Besides, poor Emma did not do this for me, or for anyone other than herself. Narcissistic train wrecks are not an interest of mine.

    If I am lucky I will avoid any further exposure to this person until the inevitable news item of her body being found surrounded by empty pill bottles. And the journalistic retrospectives of her “complicated” life and artistic career..

  39. Steve Skubinna
    June 5th, 2015 @ 11:36 pm

    College is filled with such people.

  40. Steve Skubinna
    June 5th, 2015 @ 11:36 pm

    On the other hand, lugging that mattress around campus must have done wonders for her upper body strength.

    Maybe she could pass the US Army Ranger course. Or the Marine Infantry School.

  41. Steve Skubinna
    June 5th, 2015 @ 11:39 pm

    If you’re a woman with a deep voice it means you’re submitting to The Patriarchy.

  42. Steve Skubinna
    June 5th, 2015 @ 11:43 pm

    “Performance Art” is inherently lazy. It’s people with no talent doing everyday things and investing them with deep meaning. They do this by using words such as “challenge” and “invite” and flatter the audience into thinking they’re part of creating art.

    These are people who never figured out that Mom stuck your turkey drawing traced around your hand onto the fridge because she was your mom, not because you were an artistic genius.

  43. Steve Skubinna
    June 5th, 2015 @ 11:44 pm

    What? How about a package delivery driver, or a pool man, or a major appliance repairman?

    Does this woman not understand that there are standards to uphold?

  44. Steve Skubinna
    June 5th, 2015 @ 11:45 pm

    College aged male. Hormones. Plus German so probably not picking up on the cues that an American would.

  45. Steve Skubinna
    June 5th, 2015 @ 11:45 pm

    “And you pushing.”

  46. Steve Skubinna
    June 5th, 2015 @ 11:46 pm

    Ace at AOSHQ has a pretty funny throwaway line on this.

  47. Daniel Freeman
    June 6th, 2015 @ 12:22 am

    Hmm, where did that link go? Ah yes, here it is! “Everything is problematic”: My journey into the centre of a dark political world, and how I escaped

  48. Daniel Freeman
    June 6th, 2015 @ 12:26 am

    No, it means she’s subverting expectations! Genderqueer! Her man is implicitly bi!

    Or in a saner world, it just means that different people are different.

  49. Daniel Freeman
    June 6th, 2015 @ 12:32 am

    Of course it is. I was wondering who would be the first to bring it up. How dare she try to piggyback on something that was actually clever at the time.

  50. Daniel Freeman
    June 6th, 2015 @ 12:53 am

    Thanks for the tip. Interesting reading.