Oh! I did some digging (aka I read his twitter). According to him, he just messaged anyone and everyone with a similar last name to hers on FB, asking for her contact information.

wait, he thinks he’s a fucking HERO for harassing and scaring the shit out of his date?

WHY DOES HE HAVE 19 OF HER FAMILY MEMBERS’ PHONE NUMBERS BUT DOESN’T KNOW HER ADDRESS?!?!

He’s got a giant sympathetic cesspool of MRAs sitting right there with him. This girl is in for a whole World of doxxing and harassment. I hope she’s got plans for changing her entire life, starting with her name and address, in order to escape the inevitable dogpile of nutcases who want to act out their own…

I’m appalled by all the comments calling her equally shitty. Did nobody notice WHY she was texting at that precise moment? IT WAS HER SAFETY CALL, PEOPLE. “My friend needs me right away” is one of the most classic ways to get out of a date that’s getting weird or scary. Why is nobody paying attention to this fact! The…

I’m sure this creepy manchild did plenty to make her feel unsafe. The “my friend needs me asap!” is a classic excuse to get out of a shitty date, and I highly doubt she pulled it simply because he asked her to stop texting.

He could always just call a cab. Or an Uber. Or Lyft. Or a friend. Or he could call his mother like the snotty child he’s behaving like. After all, he did make his date so uncomfortable that she left, and that’s his own damn fault. And now he’s fucking suing her for “damages.” No sympathy here.

“We can look back at it now and see he’s a wacko but at the time he was just asking her to stop texting. I don’t see how him asking her to stop texting made her “unsafe”.”

I think it’s a unfair to call it a jerk move. I also hate it when people have their screens on in the theatre, but you know what else I hate? Harassment. When it happens, especially in the context of a date, you often feel unsure of yourself. Like, is this really happening? Is he being creepy? Is this a creepy thing…

“I have a feeling this wasn’t going well before they even got to the movie theater.”

Two things I would like to say to Brandon:

Gaslight all you want.

Wait, he’s 40? From the article and his behavior, I thought he was college-aged. But 40? That’s a whole other layer of stupid and dangerous.

This is the world we live in now.

He asked for her to leave, and she did. It’s clear he was giving some bad vibes anyway.

YUP. I read her description of events on the AV Club writeup, and all I could think was, ‘Girl, RUN’:

If you were a woman on a date with a clearly unstable man, you would honestly concern yourself with how that man makes his way home? Moreso than your own personal safety?

This is so obviously a control ploy to punish her for walking out on him. The $17 just happens to be the only leverage/excuse he has to hit up everyone she knows and publicly disparage her.

What the fuck did I just read? I clicked over to the article to attempt to better understand that and just ended up way more perplexed. This guy is a complete wack job.

Fuck this guy.