i would try & keep my comment short: somethings are just obvious, she was just trying to explain something without malice.
but after this particular example, no wonder she feels so uncomfortable when people following and making up stories ’bout her life.
i guess we all enjoy 2 read ’bout celebs coz it makes us feel like we “know” them, but seriously, this girl is an amazing actress, bringing back hope that there ARE young actors who can make a difference and be appreciated throught their work.
#I_Support_Kristen_Stewart

Kristen did not mean any harm to any of the rape victims or the people who work at any crisis center.Thats not how she rolls.But I guess she will continue to be scrutinized for every word she utters because of stupid people.No one takes into account her nerves at being put on the spot at any given minute of any given day.No shes not perfect shes just a girl who happens to be a very good actress…also beautiful and she has a very kind boyfriend as well.

I absolutely do not think she intended any malice. However, she really does need to take a breath and to relate to the public and the industry in a healthier way. I agree that the papz are insane and what they do should be considered harrassment and be made illegal. If a non-celebrity were treated that way, they could call the police! But this is her lot and she is damaging her public persona with the negativity.

Over-reaction much?… “shouldn’t be immediately interpreted as callousness toward real victims.”… Absolutely agree… I mean, I think we all say things like that and just fail with our choice of words… it’s called living: you fail and have to stand back up…

The difference here is that there’s so much people listening to each word she says and see each movement she makes… both to be analyzed to the tiniest detail, to make it fit some kind of expectations (whether positive or negative)… So, I agree that the part of her that is a public persona should worry about what comes out of her mouth as it’ll have a great impact on the public, and on people from the buzz she moves on… As most of her fans are under or around 20, it’s probably something to consider when you try to express things like what she wanted to…
The part of her that is not a public persona can feel raped when taken a picture of, if she wants… if that’s how she feels, whatever… it’s her life…

And now I’m afraid she will be EXTREMELY cautious with each word she uses… which means no spontaneity in her interviews… and that’s a shame… :(
Hope she can be spontaneous again when not in the spotlight as she seems to be since this Twilight thing started…

Thanks GC… :)

oh god, it’s true!
Gossip Cop you’re clearly in favor of Kristen no matter what she does.

That is just wrong…if someone else made those remarks other than her…you all would be given them hell

I’m going to keep this short. I have nothing against Kristen Stewart, but as a victim of rape, I was upset by her choice of words. Being raped is like having every bit of dignity and control and self-respect you have being stolen from you in a single, violent act. I understand and appreciate her apology, but I just don’t see how you could compare having your picture taken to being held down and forcibly made to do thing most people could never imagine. It’s like having your soul ripped from your body. I understand completely that there was no malice intended on her part, I just wish she would have thought a bit more before speaking. I harbour no ill-will toward her, and wish her the best. Oh, and to whomever was the first to comment on this subject, I feel the need to tell you that you are an absolute moron.

She did not need to apologize. Kristen Stewart is an excellent actress.. She did nothing wrong. Word words words. I never would have interpreted Ms. Stewart’s comments as they have been. Ever hear of “out of context?” – For all the critics — get a life. She used a strong word symbolically. She is very well read. She knows what she means to say. Too bad that free speech isn’t as free as we would hope.
However, I respect her for her sincere and direct apology. She didn’t make any excuses for herself. The apology was to the point and complete.

I am posting what I wrote to “RAINN” the Rape, Abuse & Incest victims advocate group because I find what their behavior towards Kristen Stewart to be absolutely outrageous!! I don’t understand why people think when the paparazzi is “sexually assaulting” Kristen VERBALLY, that this is ok. She is constantly being “raped” by the words they use. For anyone to say differently is sick.

This RAINN group NEEDS TO APOLOGIZE TO KRISTEN AND NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND! SHE’S A VICTIM!

Here’s what I wrote NOTE: Use of words in a sexual nature is verbal sexual abuse; I needed to make that statement more clearer than I did to RAINN:

@RAINN01 I’m tweeting you because of your “acceptance” of Kristen’s apology today. Huh? What? Really? Did I read your tweet correctly?

Your acronym means “Rape, Abuse, and Incest”. Here’s the scenario:

- A 17/18 year old female is standing at a gas station pumping gas into her car. She is surrounded by at least 15 strange men jamming cameras in her face while filming her and taking her picture while saying vile things out of their mouths to her.

- A 18/19 year old female coming out of a restaurant surrounded by at least 15 or so men & woman jamming cameras in her face taking her picture and filming her as she tries to run and board a cab, she is verbally harassed and called a “bitch” amongst other things.

- A 18/19 year old female runs out of a cab and is chased into her hotel by a strange man carrying a camera who proceeds to film her as she tries to hide behind another individual clearly upset and the man continues to film her until the door closes.

- A 20 year old female traveled 12 or more hours to another country. In an attempt to relax, she goes onto her hotel room’s balcony. She’s subsequently greeted with a large group of unknown men with cameras with long lenses pointed at her room where she showers, changes her clothes, sleeps, walks around nude…cameras…cameras being held by men taking her picture in the privacy of her room’s balcony.

- A 20 year old girl chased by numerous of unknown strange men thru the streets of this country screaming some of the most vile things at her while taking her picture and filming her.

- A 20 year old girl returning home walking from the plane to the car surrounded by strange men screaming vile things at her after she just completed a promotion tour…mind you she wasn’t working at the time.

- A 19 year old female is coming out of her trailer on the film set. A photo is taken of her with her pants unbuttoned. This picture was placed on a country’s national gossip magazine claiming she’s PREGNANT! A 19-year old un-wedded girl’s picture being broadcast around the world claiming that she’s pregnant. *shakes head in shock*

- An 18 year old female being secretly filmed in a hotel parking lot along with her mother speaking to a friend. The girl doesn’t even know that she’s being filmed by strange men hiding somewhere near by until the video and pictures were posted on the internet.

- An 18 year old female is standing on the balcony of her friend’s hotel room having pictures taken of her while pictures are being taken of her friend actually through the window of the hotel room. There were more intrusive pictures taken of them having lunch etc… at the hotel.

THERE ARE MORE EXAMPLES BUT I THINK YOU GET THE POINT.

At the age of 17, 18, 19 and 20 this female can be seen in pictures and film running, ducking attempting to hide from hordes of strange men screaming vile things at her. She is so scared that she is afraid to drive her car because strange men are chasing her and are assaulting her verbally and assaulting her space denying her privacy.

This same female has continuously made every attempt to avoid any place where these hordes of men hang out but yet they find her and attack her at every chance they get. She’s not seeking them out in any way.

What I find offensive by you wanting an apology is the fact that you failed to protect- speak out against those who are assaulting this female. A female who feels “raped” by the process. “Raped” and “used” by “the system” just to make money off of her image and her private life which she goes to tremendous lengths to protect in any way she can.

YOU FAILED TO PROTECT AND DEFEND PUBLICLY A YOUNG LADY WHO’S BEING ASSAULTED. What? Verbal assaults don’t count. Being harassed and having vile things screamed at you doesn’t warrant your protection?

Oh, I see, it just because they haven’t committed a “sexual” act it is ok for these men to assault in other ways. I see. As long as men verbally assault you it’s ok. Not to mention pointing cameras into your hotel room and chase you into hotels and restaurants and surround your car while you’re driving it’s all good.

AS a female I am embarrassed and insulted by your organization. How dare you think it’s ok
for a men to “rape” a female in a non-sexual manner physically but have at her verbally and while you’re at it, film it in the process.

HOW DARE YOU EVEN CONSIDER YOURSELF A PROTECTOR OF WOMEN WHO HAVE BEEN “ABUSED” BY THEIR ASSAULTER?!!!

KRISTEN IS BEING ABUSED!! A-B-U-S-E-D!!! ABUSED!

Kristen = The Abused….Paparazzi = Assaulter

“Abused” as defined by dictionary.com:

- to treat in a harmful, injurious, or offensive way;

- to speak insultingly, harshly, and unjustly to or about; revile; malign;

- harshly or coarsely insulting language;

- bad or improper treatment; maltreatment

I have to say this but WTF are you thinking to asked a female, Kristen, to apologize using the word “rape” when in essence anyone with half of a brain knows she wasn’t saying she was sexually assaulted but being “raped” by the paparazzi…Her privacy is being “raped”.

Understand definitions. A “place” can be “raped”. For example, when Michael Crichton wrote in “Jurassic Park”: “Discovery is always the rape of the natural world. Always.” http://tinyurl.com/29g7mr5

Did you protest him? Did you protest his use of the word “rape”? How can a world be “raped”? How can a world be “sexually assaulted?” If you did protest him, you’d be wrong.

Dictionary.com defines “rape”: to plunder (a place); despoil.

This is what Crichton was discussing. However, Kristen was stating her feelings, I believe under this portion of the definition:

“to seize, take, or carry off by force.”

The paparazzi takes her pictures by force; by placing her under seizure by surrounding her and then verbally abusing her in the process.

KRISTEN HAS NO REASON TO APOLOGIZE!! She’s RIGHT!! She’s being “raped” not in the sexual nature but by the actions of the paparazzi.

Kristen is cerebral. She was expressing angst with the paparazzi in an intellectual manner but not to insult or hurt or trying to place herself as an actual “rape victim” but as a victim of a “rape of her privacy”. Of her self-being.

Kristen is hurting inside. She’s calling out for help and all you did to her today was have her being “raped” over and over again by the press.

You should be defending her. Protecting her. Sticking up for her and telling the paparazzi to stop what they’re doing. Stop surrounding her and verbally assaulting her. And yes, they are physically assaulting her at times as well by pushing and shoving into her body guards trying to get a stupid picture.

What you did today to another female who is hurting is unforgivable. This young woman is trying to do the right thing by not going places where the paparazzi are known to be. But when she has to do her job as an actress and go out in public for meetings, appearances, filming etc…that’s the only time they can find her.

Kristen is not trying to be FAMOUS. She’s trying to be an actress. And yes, the paparazzi are raping her. Everyday…

YOU OWE HER AN APOLOGY! Her, as well as me and every other female you are supposed to be defending and protecting from abuse…and not just sexual abuse either.

The hypocrisy is palpable. Your acronym means Rape, ABUSE, and Incest. My best friend was not only physically ABUSED by her ex-husband but verbally ABUSED by him as well. Apparently, it’s ok for stranger to verbally abuse Kristen.

What you did to Kristen today was worse than what any paparazzi has done to her. You failed to protect her. You failed to defend her. You failed to recognized a female who is hurting, who is reaching out for help…SO the words may not be the best way of expressing herself although I think I pretty much debunked that theory, however, you FAILED to defend her. You FAILED to protect her. YOU FAILED.

Dancer1, I agree. Well said. I was very upset when I learned that RAINN was going after her.

@ Dancer 1: Anybody that takes the time and write this much bullshit on a comment blogger is about as crazy as the idiot that compared rape to being photographed by the papps.