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Kitty Pryde sounds off in defence of Danny Brown

by Tyler Munro

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Kitty Pryde is on tour with Danny Brown, which means she was there last Friday when a female crowd-member yanked his pants down and went to town. She’s seen the reaction since, too, with people deriding Danny Brown as a scumbag or applauding him as a hero. But one thing she hasn’t seen is the other side of the argument—that maybe Danny Brown was the one being taken advantage of. In response to it all, she’s written a long but incredibly well done post for Noisey on the incident, in which she defends her friend and peer with admirable veracity.

“I’m mad that a person thought it was okay to pull another person’s pants down during their performance in front of about 700 other people. I’m mad that a person thought it was a good idea to perform a sex act on another person without their consent,” she writes. “I’m mad that nobody made her leave. I’m mad that Danny had to actually wonder what he was supposed to do at that point.”

Kitty avoids going into too much detail because by her words she was “pretty drunk” when it happened, but her point is important nonetheless.

“[It] was not a thing that Danny facilitated—it was an actual sexual assault, and somehow nobody gives a fuck about that but me,” she says. “I’m prepared to kick a motherfucker in the teeth if he touches me at all, and I equip myself with giant boots for that reason. What is Danny supposed to do?” she continued, adding that he backed away instead of pushing her.

Read the whole thing here.