How can people be so clueless as to sign off on things like this?
Does anything else really need to be said?
Maroons!
Iām not sure that they can. Unfortunately, they have plenty of less honorable reasons available, like knowing exactly what it is and thinking that everyone will find it as hilarious as they do.
(And, unfortunately, such a belief is only implausible because it relies on everyone: given the rather chilling percentage of āromantic comedyā that is basically founded on the premise that stalking is adorable if it is plucky enough and the protagonist is doing it, Iād be shocked if you couldnāt get āa heartwarming story of how The Holidays, Mistletoe, and an extra dose of cheer in the eggnog helped two friends drawn from Bloomingdaleās target demographic stop denying the chemistry between them and discover each other this holiday seasonā green-lighted as a surprisingly uncontroversial shlock romantic comedy. Even among people who have finally agree that it can be ārape-rapeā even without a scary stranger and a knife; itās not hard to find the notion that real date rape is something that requires blacking out and a frat or football team; not a more general matter of covert chemical dis-inhibition. āStranger dangerā dies hard, as does willingness to tolerate all but the most overt uses of force. Respectable consensus has been nudged closer to including āanimalistic frat brosā as potential āstrangersā and ādrunk to unconsciousnessā as ārestrained or coercedā; but this seems to have been accomplished mostly by modification of the boundaries of existing categories, not by reevaluation of how we handle the concept of āautonomyā in the context of humans whose bounded rationality can be further compromised by a wide variety of means.)
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