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News Comedian Russell Brand charged with rape

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0457d02e9go
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u/DO_NOT_AGREE_WITH_U 18h ago

The number of women celebrities who assaulted Justin Bieber is honestly impressive.

Don't get me wrong, it's disgusting as well.

But Jesus Christ, you can't help but be amazed at how flagrantly women can sexually assault men and receive zero punishment. Live on national television, even, and they will have droves of unhinged people defend them for it.

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u/AtraposJM 15h ago

By the sounds of it, men too. Really gross how he was treated when he was young. His mom really sold him off to the wolves.

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u/UnitedRooster4020 15h ago

Drunk middle aged women are way more often a menace than anyone wants to admit. These celebs get buzzed at events just like some hen party and take all kinds of liberties with other people. Any wedding staff or bartender will tell you male staff gets assaulted all the time by handsy women that are young and obnoxious entitled or aging and desperate to feel attractive again in the worst way.

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u/HaterMD 13h ago

Nothing worse than a bachelorette party in a gay bar.

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u/ColdstreamCapple 10h ago

In the city I live in one bar actually closed down because it delved into non stop bachelorette parties and drove all the gay people out

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u/Top_Equipment809 15h ago

When I was 16 I had a job in a local hotel that also held conferences, I was asked to come in and serve drinks at a nurses conference, once the actual conference was done they had a band play and drinks etc. I was delivering trays of drinks all night, as they got drunk over the course of the evening, every inch of my body was grabbed, my crotch repeatedly, I was propositioned constantly and at the end of the night when they were clearing out, a woman in her 30s ish shoved me against a wall and stuck her tongue in my mouth. It was a real eye opener, the behaviour was absolutely out of control. I worked a few more of those, but as I got older I became better at getting them to back off. The behaviour was the same at every one.

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u/Ninesect 14h ago

Where might one find these local hotels which hold such conferences? You know, for research purposes.

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u/my-coffee-needs-me 13h ago

Don't be an ass. SA against men and boys is not taken nearly as seriously as it should be.

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u/Ninesect 12h ago edited 5h ago

How is it SA if I'm consenting?

edit: lol no one wants to explain, just downvote. No wonder you all live on reddit.

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u/BeastLansing26 13h ago

Sounds like hell.

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u/sabrenation81 14h ago

The inevitable end result of the gross double standard society has toward underage male stars.

30 or 40-year-old men lust over a teenage actress or pop star and society (rightly) recoils in horror and calls them predators.

30 or 40-year-old women lust over a teenage boy and society talks bout how lucky that kid is to have women old enough to be his mother drooling over him.

Then we wonder why they so often grow up to be maladjusted, drug addicted ticking time bombs.

Bieber's case seems to be especially bad because he had worthless parents who treated him like a winning lottery ticket rather than their child. Even that isn't exactly unique in show business, though.

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u/MetalingusMikeII 16h ago

I feel sorry for him.

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u/Mean_Direction_8280 16h ago

If you haven't heard it, you should listen to "celebrity" by Brad Paisley. It pokes fun at the ridiculous things celebrities do, just because they think they can get away with it. Brad even plays the part of an American idol contestant, with William Shatner playing Simon Cowell.

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u/Helmic 10h ago edited 5h ago

Patriarchy is not just about keeping women subservient but also pushing men into a very rigid gender role where it's understood they categorically cannot be sexually assaulted by women, even when other power dynamics (like age in this case) put the woman in a position of power relative to their victim. It is why when women do this sort of thing, there is usually something like a big age gap or a huge disparity in position (prison guard vs inmate). Men also abuse positions of power, but they can more often go after women closer in status.

And so we have this culture where men cannot really admit to not wanting a sexual advance from a woman lest they be seen as less of a man, it is violating your gender role to not be always open to sex or sexual attention from at least a conventionally attractive woman. And it is very often the same shitty PUA divkheads that enforce this idea, that will give guys shit for rejecting an advance from someone like that (at least up until they figure they can twist it to be justification for their own misogy).

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u/freddy_guy 14h ago

Yes, it's totally women that get away with it. Male rapists certainly don't get elected president of the United States or anything like that.

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u/DO_NOT_AGREE_WITH_U 14h ago

When exactly have you seen a man sexually assault a woman on national television and not getting punished?

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u/OK_Fox_4505 13h ago

Off the top of my head: Ariana Grande was groped during Aretha Franklin's funeral

Jim Carey forcibly kissed Alicia Silverstone at the MTV Movie Awards. He was in his 30s and she was 19

Adrian Brody forcibly kissed Halle Berry at the Oscars

Mel B was groped by Louis Walsh during a tv interview

As far as I can tell, none of these men have faced any real consequences

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u/therealSHOTGUNWILLIE 6h ago

Yeah showbiz ain't what most people think it is. Glamorized porn industry

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u/DemolitionMan64 11h ago

It's cool that this is a big conversation on this thread about a male celebrity raping someone.

Fuckin women.