The Kevin Spacey "Apology"

We live in a world in which Buzzfeed has breaking news.

It is possible to release a statement in which you do everything wrong? If so, I think this is it.  If you haven't read the Kevin Spacey what he calls an apology, take a minute to read it over on NPR.

Things he did right: said something nice about Anthony Rapp (who is amazing even if he was with the bad guys in Twister). Maybe that was right? Or does that make it more creepy?

Things he did wrong: everything else.

1. Late night Twitter. Did he go to the Cheetoh in Chief School of Tweeting?! Twitter apologies at midnight probably aren't the best way to get your message across. It makes it look haphazard and disingenuous. Also not the top venue for actual apologies.

2. Doesn't take any blame. He stated it like he was reading the story for the first time with the rest of us. If he had a serious problem with alcohol, he might not remember what he did. That doesn't mean that he isn't accountable for it. "What would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior"and "But if I did behave then as he describes" are gross deflection.

3. Apologies for Anthony Rapp's feelings. This is a trademark of bad apologies. I'm no stranger to bad apologies - honestly, I'm an expert. He's sorry Anthony feels that way. Kevin is doing a "mistakes were made." He's sorry for the feelings but not sorry for the sexual advance on a 14 year old?

You know it, Gregory.

4. Coming out in your public apology. Dude, way to softball this to the anti-gay crowd. You "choose" to live as a gay man. Really? You couldn't think of any other way to phrase that? Maybe not Tweeting at midnight would have helped. And in your apology for a sexual advance on a 14 year old? How many times have people said that gay men are pedophiles? RHETORICAL!

5. Erasing bisexual identity. This is nowhere near as bad as the rest of the things he said in this "apology," but it does come into account. Inside and outside of the LGBT community people say that bisexuals don't exist. That we're greedy or it's a layover on the train to GayTown. While there is no reason on Earth, Heaven, or Hell for him to use his apology for this to come out, he did so by making it seem like there was a choice between straight or gay. Again, not that this should have been the same Tweet, but not using the word "choose" would have been a great start.

Is there a way for Kevin Spacey to come back from this? The public lets celebrities get away with this all the time (Big Ben anyone?). Trying to distract from the sexual advance with a coming out story didn't work quite the way I think he planned it. We are all still paying attention to the first paragraph.

We live in a world where people are being held accountable. Let's see what Kevin does next.