Comments on: An onstage meltdown

By: not a sorry girl | SorryWatch

not a sorry girl | SorryWatch — Mon, 30 Dec 2013 20:52:28 +0000

[…] — black and white, feminist and as-yet-unenlightened. We don’t hold out much hope that Michelle Shocked will come around, but we still think we can get somewhere with you, and we can’t let go, and […]

By: mergatroid95

mergatroid95 — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:25:25 +0000

In reply to Erik. maybe you take a page from the mantra to "hate the sin, love the sinner"? :) and by extension that wonderful album.

By: snarly

snarly — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 01:48:33 +0000

Well, Erik, I’m a Jew and I listen to Wagner.

(I updated the post to reflect the SPIN interview Gavin pointed us to.)

By: Erik

Erik — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 22:33:29 +0000

How can I unlearn about this whole thing so I can go back to loving “Short Sharp Shocked”?

By: tanita

tanita — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 22:23:12 +0000

In reply to snarly.

(Gosh, thanks!!)
I, too, would have loved to see evidence of this woman trying to carry her warrior-feminist-advocacy message into the Evangelical arena!

I do think this is about straddling conflicting worlds – and failing. :unhappy sigh:

By: snarly

snarly — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:55:29 +0000

Thanks, all, for this convo. It’s really hard to have a foot in two worlds…especially when you’re clearly a fragile person already.

Tanita, I especially appreciate your “book.” (You guys, Tanita is an actual superb novelist I hope to meet in actual person one day.)

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:56:52 +0000

Wow, David. Thanks so much for that. She really is completely melting down.

By: David Gans

David Gans — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:28:59 +0000

Here is the audio. https://soundcloud.com/therealtofuandwhiskey/michelle-shocked-2nd-yoshis

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:16:33 +0000

I’m very curious if there are any documented cases of Shocked “upholding her punk rock values in the most evangelical enclaves.”

As someone with a seminary education in a liberal Christian tradition, my most forgiving perspective is that she was trying (however poorly) to be prophetic in the biblical sense. The fact that she chose San Francisco to give people views of another way of thinking is not lost on me, but I strongly doubt that she has equally shocked her Evangelical comrades with a counter point of view.

By: Gavin

Gavin — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:07:32 +0000

See also her unhinged Spin interview. I think in the past Shocked has tried to balance her evangelical Christianity with her leftist-warrior identity, with varying degrees of success. I didn't find the apology satisfactory either, but the more I read about this, the more I worry, honestly, that she's not mentally well. To me, this doesn't look like somebody expressing her belief system; it looks like somebody having a breakdown.