Buffy ,'Showtime'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I'm sort of amazed that the reporter writing the story was surprised that the guy's attitude ("Look what I did [whether it's fictional or not] -- I AM SO COOL for forcing/tricking my way into this woman's room and bed -- and YOU SHOULD THINK I'M COOL, too!!!") is something new/unusual.
Because it struck me as, unfortunately, all too commonplace.
Aargh. Sadly, I can believe in men raping women like that. Naively, however, I can't properly believe in them thinking it's okay to talk (nay, brag) about it in front of strangers that way. Jesus.
The only video I want to see is some Chicago detective interrogating that asshole to get a rape conviction.
Depressing and disgusting, but not surprising.
I mean, I can see it to his friends, but to random people? That's the part that I just don't want to believe.
Cognitive dissonance.
In his head, he thinks he convinced her by charming her.
I very much want the follow-up story.
Something involving significant jail time, I hope.
I can't see video at work, so I'm just as happy I missed that bit.
Naively, however, I can't properly believe in them thinking it's okay to talk (nay, brag) about it in front of strangers that way. Jesus.
It's both cognitivie dissonance and the kind of behavior valorized by some of the bro-type comedies, I think. And stuff like those guys, the players, too, I think. Looking at women that way is pretty common in this culture: fungibility is a feature, not a bug.