Opinion: Alison Rapp did deserve to be fired from Nintendo

[Disclaimer: This is the opinion of the author]

Sweet vindication, let me bask in your deliciousness for just a moment! This article is going to be a bit crude.

After my recent, controversial opinion that Nintendo was right in firing Alison Rapp, I received some angry responses, was labeled a woman hater, and even received mild harassment online. Unfortunately I'm a white male, so Lifetime wouldn't buy the rights to my story and spin it into a work of fiction. That means I had to just endure the miniscule inconvenience of internet douche bags.

Then something glorious, yet sad, happened: Alison Rapp was outed as a call girl. That's right, after the rest of the media cast Rapp as a defenseless girl bullied out of a job by the big, turned on Nintendo, and even let Rapp herself start blasting the Big N, it turns out she was working a job that was not only inappropriate for a Nintendo PR rep, but illegal.

Why, it's almost like Nintendo was right to tastefully remain silent while trying to distance themselves from this dumpster fire.

Now don't get me wrong, I don't hate Alison Rapp, and I don't hate call girls. In fact, I'm for the legalization and regulation of voluntary prostitution. It's my firm belief that the act itself should not be a crime and regulation provides a revenue stream and protection for these women who are made vulnerable by stupid laws.

I don't give a fuck that Rapp's making $250 an hour as Maria Mint (her escort name), that's called smart. That's a nice house, a new car, and a retirement fund for a year of working less than part time. If I could make $250 an hour being a fellatiologist, I'd change my name to Mario Mint and go into business with her…

There's no real defending against that title she's been given by her harassers. Rapp painted Nintendo as a heartless corporation that was downgrading her role in the company and eventually firing her because of harassers, and not because she was doing something illegal. That clearly wasn't the case, and looking back it seems like a pretty brazen move on her part. What was Nintendo going to do, admit its former PR person was an illegal prostitute? Given the lengths the company has gone to protect its image at times, I'd be willing to bet they didn't want this to see the light of day at all.

How do you work in PR and not understand the definition of anonymous?

Totally anonymous, her detrators had to dig deep!

Still, this is going to be sad. I could feel the harassment coming as soon as I saw a Rapp supporter in disbelief on my twitter timeline. She's going to be inundated with sex related hate speech, even moreso than before, and only the most stout SJWs will stand by her through this. Harassment like we're about to see is never a good thing, in fact, it shouldn't happen at all.

At the end of the day, though, good guy Nintendo was more right than even I gave them credit for being, Alison Rapp was in the wrong considering her position in Nintendo, I don't mind prostitution, the harassment is going to be worse now, and no I'm not going to post her escort ads or website. I'm not here to facilitate your perversions, I just try to defend your right to be a legally acceptable pervert.

Now that I've got that out of my system, can we get an apology to Nintendo from the a**holes that lambasted them?