Emile Ratelband and Guido den Aantrekker jump in the gap for the discredited Johan Derksen. They are one of the few media celebrities to express their support for the SBS star.
The revelation of Johan Derksen that he penetrated a woman with a candle – a day later he suddenly claimed that he put the candle between her legs, but according to critics that is damage control – arouses disgust from left to right. Arjen Lubach, for example, now speaks of Rape Inside and Robert Jensen finds him ‘disgusting’.
Emile and Guido
There are very few media celebrities who support Johan publicly. One of them is Emile Ratelband. “Johan Derksen penetrated unconscious woman with candle,” he tweeted. “Johan, applause for your honesty AND you are absolutely right: those were different, ‘better’ times!! Today weak minds and therefore touchy.”
Story boss Guido den Aantrekker is also in camp Johan. “Dear wokers: you don’t HAVE to watch Today Inside. Go watch Heel Holland Bakt. Or Farmer Seeks Woman. Or any other hypercorrect program. What kind of weird masochism is this?” he says angrily.
He concludes: “Types like Marcia Luyten, who self-satisfiedly decide for us what we can and cannot see. Woke, today’s fascism.”
Helen van Royen
Heleen van Royen thinks we shouldn’t take it too seriously. She says about the victim: “I hope she can still laugh about it then and now. It’s like The Hangover. Waking up after a wild night: binge drinking with soccer players, taking them home and puking all over them, and then being lost. And how did that candle get there?”
Susan Smit stunned: “Are you going to downplay this?”
Heleen: “The people involved will undoubtedly all have had their own experience of this wild evening. We were not there. I do miss some relativity, yes. We are not talking about a double murder, although it now seems that way.”
Susan: “The woman couldn’t experience it, because she was unconscious! That’s all you need to know.”
“Jesus, Helen!”
Heleen: “No, we should know how she felt when she woke up from her daze. Would like to ask her. Chances are her hangover was so big that the candle barely interested her.”
Sylvana Simons then: “Jesus Heleen. It’s not fiction, huh. Damn it. (…) The point of your tweet is that you downplay his story to something funny. His story (that’s all we have) is neither funny nor fiction a la The Hangover. It legitimizes abuse in real life because ‘haha’.”
Heleen: “It can also just be a silly ‘cunt joke’. You throw up on us, we give you a candle. Bye!”
Two versions
Johan’s two versions of the candle story: