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Originally Posted by Dominic
Solid article, imo. As a non-American my only addition would be that I think the whole culture of men "hunting" women, which then leads to confusion in males in situations like that, seems to be more of an American thing - or at least compared to Scandinavia. When I read about this whole Aziz incident, I basically had two thoughts: 1) Alright, this is not even in remotely in the same category as Weinstein, etc (I felt this way about Louis CK too, although to a lesser extent), and 2) Still, WTF how can he possibly act like that, that is absurd. But then I remembered that it actually *is* pretty normal for American males to pursue women/sex way beyond the point where they've already made it clear they aren't into it.
I also think it makes this more interesting that Aziz is like 5 feet 3 or something and is generally about the least threatening presence you can imagine. There's a realistic chance he's actually shorter than that girl. I'm not saying that it should matter, but just imagining the situation I think it'd be significantly more terrible for the girl if Aziz was a huge muscly dude who she has no control over.
IDK, it's definitely really ****ty behaviour by him, and if he was a Finnish celebrity he'd have been burned at stake. Given everything I think the amount of bad press he's received should be enough of a punishment if you ask me, and I don't think his career should really suffer from this aside from the fact that he probably won't putting himself out there for a while. Anyone putting him in the same category as these actual predators is an idiot, and your point about doing that messing up with the whole #metoo movement is extremely valid.
I think this does make the chances of MoN s3 ever happening quite a lot slimmer, though, as I suspect relationships/dating isn't something Aziz is going to be wanting to tackle in the near future in his art, and Netflix possibly wouldn't want to produce it either. But I don't think Aziz's career longer-term should really suffer from this much beyond that.