Because he was likely dead instantaneously from the Force lightning before the fall even happened. Whereas explosions are definitely survivable and you don’t die immediately in space like some people mistakenly think (it would actually be long enough to suck).

Because he had been zapped with Force lighting by a more powerful Force user.

Umm No. Men should learn/listen to non-verbal cues.

“well, no means no, plus you have to physically leave the space for them to respect that, otherwise I think it’s just awkward sex.”

She didn’t say no until the very end, though. At which point he stopped trying. And, yes, he was pressuring her into sex the whole time, not coercing her into sex. People seem to not realize that coercion involves force or threats.

This is how you make young white women look like infants. She was 23 years old. She had graduated from college, could legally vote, legally get married, join the military, drink alcohol, marry someone 50 years older than her. She is an adult. This reminds of me when media refers to Don Jr., Kushner and Ivanka as…

Why is Jezebel obligated to have a “take” on every sexual assault story in the news. That’s how you get lazy articles that add nothing to the conversation.

She also expressed her feelings to him the next day. He heard her out and apologized. I see no reason to doubt the sincerity of his apology. His statement on the matter affirms that he took her words to heart.

But I thought 23 was #adulting? So if you date anyone who is older and/or has more money, it’s automatically a power imbalance weighted against the woman?

What power imbalance? She isn’t in his industry, he has no control over her. If she had left on her own accord after dinner, nothing bad would happen to her.

Looking into the story as well, I thought the same thing, but didn’t want to be the first person to voice that thought. I’ll always give the benefit of the doubt, but the story made it come off like petty airing of dirt rather than actually pointing at predatory behavior.

This was a bad date. She had a horrible date with a clueless guy who thought he was being sexy and hot. She was made to feel uncomfortable, and it wasn’t right.

There was some sleaziness to his plays, but nothing that seemed outside the Tom Haverford playbook of overreaching. Certainly nothing that constitutes coercion.

The story reads to me like a groupie dissatisfied she was treated like a groupie.

Just here for the comments:

Next is that there really wasn’t any narrative point or purpose to the scene,

Yeah the bazillion volts he got from the Emperor right before the fall wouldn’t have fazed him one bit. Nope.

Wait, are we moving the goal posts from “How was she able to use the Force to save herself with no training?” to “Why didn’t she save the entire bridge crew with the Force single-handedly?”?

Luke pulled the lightsaber from the snow in ESB with zero training.

You seem to be misremembering the original trilogy. When Luke was in the Wampa cave he used the exact same force power (Force Pull) for the exact same self-serving reason, i.e. “i’m in danger and i don’t want to die.”