Chappell Roan is doubling down against the “predatory behavior” she’s been experiencing with some of her so-called fans.
via: Daily Mail
After posting about 'weird' fans in an angry TikTok video earlier this month, the artist released another firm statement about her boundaries on Instagram.
After uploading the six page statement, the 26-year-old explained that she turned off comments because 'this isn’t a group conversation.'
'I’m not afraid of the consequences for demanding respect,' the My Kink Is Karma hitmaker wrote.
The singer likened the experiences she's been going through to what 'every woman is feeling or has felt similar to what I’m experiencing.'
'This isn’t a new situation,' she expressed to her fans. 'Why is a girl expressing her fears and boundaries so infuriating?'
Following up on her TikTok statement in which she tried to explain the distress she had been feeling from fans who meet her outside of her concerts or scheduled events, the Good Luck, Babe! singer said, 'For the past 10 years I’ve been going non-stop to build my project and it’s come to the point that I need to draw lines and set boundaries.'
The singer explained, 'I’ve been in too many nonconsensual physical and social interactions and I just need to lay it out and remind you, women don’t owe you s**t.'
Chappell continued her explanation telling detractors, 'When I’m on stage, when I’m performing, when I’m in drag, when I’m at a work event, when I’m doing press…I am at work. Any other circumstance, am not in work mode. I am clocked out.'
'I don’t agree with the notion that I owe a mutual exchange of energy, time, or attention to people I do not know, do not trust, or who creep me out—just because they’re expressing admiration.'
The singer and songwriter, who performs in drag, pinpointed that she was 'specifically talking about predatory behavior (disguised as “superfan” behavior) that has become normalized because of the way women who are well-known have been treated in the past.'
'Please do not assume you know a lot about someone’s life, personality, and boundaries because you are familiar with them or their work online.'
The Hot to Go singer stated repeatedly that just because she had chosen a career that would put her in the public eye she did not have to accept 'creepy people, being touched, and being followed.'
She compared it to the sexist and dangerous trope of a woman deserving to be catcalled or harassed for wearing a 'short skirt.'
'It is not the woman’s duty to suck it up and take it; it is the harasser’s duty to be a decent person, leave her alone, and respect that she can wear whatever she wants and still deserve peace in this world.'
'I am scared and tired,' she said. 'I feel more love than I ever have in my life. I feel the most unsafe I have ever felt in my life.'
The artist, who was born Kayleigh Rose Amstutz, also asked fans not to call her by her given name.
Chappell closed by sharing, 'There is a part of myself that I save just for my project and all of you. There is a part of myself that is just for me, and I don’t want that taken away from me. Thank you for reading this. I appreciate your understanding and support.'
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