If he had considered apologizing to the victim, irrespective of whether he had meant it, she might still be alive. Apologies don’t exist as simply a measure of an individual’s deep regret or shame. They perform a social function by acknowledging wrongdoing and thereby promoting healing. It would absolutely be better…

why are you assuming he felt any sympathy for the character. for all we know they high fived over writing in a rape scene and getting away with it, and gloated over it. maybe they even thought it was hot. he’s obviously fond of rape.

Cool. Let’s add more, then.

He clearly thinks Celestin was wrongly convicted. I can wrap my head around “I was exonerated so I didn’t rape her!” You’d have to engage in some serious mental gymnastics to ever sleep at night otherwise, especially if your victim died by suicide later.

Which makes this statement all the more horrifying: “I was falsely accused… I went to court… I was vindicated,” Parker tells Anderson Cooper.

Honestly that’s one of the things that stands out to me the most as a huge red flag- he clearly has a pathological need to “control the story” even when bringing it up over and over and over again is clearly not doing him any favors. It certainly puts one in mind of the victim’s claims that Parker stalked and…

Clearly a sincere sentiment given the ‘give no fucks’ bread it was sandwiched between.

That’s absolutely true. But it’s the direct connection that gets me. Writing a scene that is, by all accounts, extremely powerful and brings you into the perspective of the woman raped and makes you feel her anguish, when he himself did that.

Hey, where did the ‘profound sorrow’ go?

I still can’t quite wrap my mind around the fact that two men who raped a woman then got together years later to write a scene where a woman is raped and traumatized, specifically crafted to evoke extreme sympathy and fury in both viewers and the main character himself.

He has a Trump-like inability to admit wrongdoing even when the evidence strongly indicates he’s guilty.

But Parker himself didn’t say stop so, by his own logic, not only should the journalist kept going, he should have invited two other journalists into the room to keep asking the same question.