Awesome movie, too.

I knew what that was going to link to before I even clicked on it - legit one of my top ten movies.

Yeah, and plenty of people criticized Hollywood then too. And the criticism wasn’t dismissed as anti-male sexism.

The Long Kiss Goodnight was awesome and underrated.

Also, the story itself wasn’t all that impressive. It was pedestrian at best. Certainly not worthy of all the hype.

Her disparaging remarks about his body were interesting.

Shouldn’t this stuff be OBVIOUS? If something is NOT OK to do, why are others defending it as perfectly OK to do?

I guess people who have been in abusive relationships with women just know what to look for while others give those women a pass to continue to behave in shitty, abusive ways.

Yeah man was that a boring story. The author doesn’t give us any reason to care about either of the people and nothing interesting or compelling happens at all. The only thing it has going for it is that it caught a cultural wave and went viral.

the great, viral New Yorker story about a college student who has a disgusting (but terrifyingly ordinary) sexual episode with an entitled misogynist that’s just a long request to be reblogged with YASSS QUEEN gifs

THis to me is one of the biggest problems with reactions to the story7. No one defends the shitty things that the guy did, but people like you keep justifying, or even normalizing the creepy, entitled, body-shaming, bahavoir that she had. The people in that story are equally horrible and seem likely to be abusive.

More like a short story about two shitty and emotionally abusive human beings that probably deserve each other at the end if only to keep their creepy asses out of the rest of the dating pool.

i dont see the problem. shes over 18. are we mandating age gaps be less than a certain amount now?

“Guess you missed the part at the end where he stalks her and calls her a whore huh?”

NO ONE comes off looking good in that story. She waxes poetic about his mundane movie taste, how awkward and unattractive he is, his awful performance, and most importantly, lies about her age- by omission of course, and so does he.

I read the story, but didn’t know it went viral. I had your exact reaction to it and was annoyed I wasted my time reading it.

I agree. Not much misogynistic about the encounter...it was just lame, as many such encounters are.

“Looking back, maybe naming it Outside The Lines was a little too on the nose.”

PC run totally amok.

I feel like this is maybe one of those things were Europeans don’t have the self awareness like Americans do that blackface is wildly inappropriate today. I’m not excusing it, but clearly no one was around to tell him why this might not be the greatest idea. Don’t they still have a holiday/celebration in the…