Seriously society, this is what you think is entertaining?

Michelle wrote a little while back about Tucker Max, whom I had never heard of before and honestly wish I could still say I hadn't. However, now that I have I gotta say...really?? What the fuck have we as a society come to that we promote and gobble up the various types of absurdity that he does all for his 15 minutes of fame? If you haven't heard about him I think it's worthwhile to be aware of what today's youth/teenagers/adults find funny. Below is an excerpt from a blog (The Sexist) for the Washington City Paper followed by Michelle's response:

"Of course, “where consent lies and doesn’t lie” is a consistent issue in [Tucker] Max’s work. Max’s stories succeed on orchestrating sexual conquests that are increasingly outrageous, drunk, dubiously legal, painful, objectifying, and embarrassing to his sex partners. In order to continue to one-up himself, Max intentionally pushes the line of consent—getting drunker, getting her drunker, leaving his sex partners to fend for themselves—naked—on the street, hiding his friend with an undisclosed video camera in his closet while they’re doing it. It’s not hard to think of the ultimate scenario these increasingly absurd sexcapades are inching toward—it’s, like, rape, dude."

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I don’t think Tucker Max is a rapist, to get that right out there. But I do think that sex can still be legally and technically consensual, and still be degrading, disrespectful, and harmful. The fact that Tucker Max has made fucking drunk girls with low self-esteem and then calling them whores and bitches afterwards, and is ADMIRED by men and women all over the fucking place, is really sickening.

I think that a less polarizing article would have been, “It’s not rape but why does that make it okay?” Because the glorification of someone who says that you shouldn’t feel bad for humiliating and degrading your sex partners because they’re probably just whores (but you fucking everyone in sight is not the same thing, because they have low self-esteem and low intellect and you’re just doing what men are biologically programmed to do) is just bad for everybody. It encourages the kind of male behaviour that leads to rape (for men, trying to fuck drunk girls who you are thinking of as unworthy of your respect or care; for women, thinking that you deserve to be treated like shit by men), and it celebrates the idea that sex should be about your ego and your reputation rather than the mutual enjoyment of both partners.

So, to sum up, he’s a disgusting human being promoting disgusting, horrifying beliefs, and people think he’s great because “at least he’s honest about it”, as if being a hateful, nasty piece of shit is both natural and unavoidable for people. Ignore the argument in the article and read the comments if you want to be really disturbed by the fans’ protests in this sociopathic frat boy’s defense.