....Each time an idol falls, we also lose a sense that justice, criminal or social, is a possibility – that there are true consequences for grave mistakes. Perhaps 2014 was not a year of fallen idols. It was a year when we began to see behind many people’s masks.
It was a year of a fallen ideal: that of justice for all. It was a year of accepting the truth that everyone is a little bit more racist than we are comfortable believing. It was a year of accepting that powerful men can be far more dangerous than the men they play on television. It was a year of facing the truth that the people we admire, our idols, are not heroes; they are human and it is our responsibility to see them as such.
To read the rest of this mighty essay by Roxane Gay, go to: http://www.theguardian.com/com...4-celebrity-scandals
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