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https://www.theatlantic.com/entertai...ansari/550541/Was Grace frozen, terrified, stuck? No. She tells us that she wanted something from Ansari and she was trying to figure out how to get it. She wanted affection, kindness, attention. Perhaps she hoped to maybe even become the famous man’s girlfriend. He wasn’t interested. What she felt afterward—rejected yet another time, by yet another man—was regret. And what she and the writer who told her story created was 3,000 words of revenge porn. The clinical detail in which the story is told is intended not to validate her account as much as it is to hurt and humiliate Ansari. Together, the two women may have destroyed Ansari’s career, which is now the punishment for every kind of male sexual misconduct, from the grotesque to the disappointing.
Twenty-four hours ago—this is the speed at which we are now operating—Aziz Ansari was a man whom many people admired and whose work, although very well paid, also performed a social good. He was the first exposure many young Americans had to a Muslim man who was aspirational, funny, immersed in the same culture that they are. Now he has been—in a professional sense—assassinated, on the basis of one woman’s anonymous account. Many of the college-educated white women who so vocally support this movement are entirely on her side. The feminist writer and speaker Jessica Valenti tweeted, “A lot of men will read that post about Aziz Ansari and see an everyday, reasonable sexual interaction. But part of what women are saying right now is that what the culture considers ‘normal’ sexual encounters are not working for us, and oftentimes harmful.”
I thought it would take a little longer for the hit squad of privileged young white women to open fire on brown-skinned men. I had assumed that, on the basis of intersectionality and all that, they’d stay laser focused on college-educated white men for another few months. But we’re at warp speed now, and the revolution—in many ways so good and so important—is starting to sweep up all sorts of people into its conflagration: the monstrous, the cruel, and the simply unlucky. Apparently there is a whole country full of young women who don’t know how to call a cab, and who have spent a lot of time picking out pretty outfits for dates they hoped would be nights to remember. They’re angry and temporarily powerful and last night they destroyed a man who didn’t deserve it.
Aziz Ansari, rapist.
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ugh, like the takedown of Franken, anonymously assassinating AA is disappointing.
but, women have a point, "no means no"
Will other women now accuse AA?
Will Master of None be cancelled? ratings plunge?
Will people boycott butt-grabbing G H W Bush's funeral?
LOL, greasy. , if it means more unfunny people off TV, then I guess it's a win.
Never heard of him
Ok. I’ve seen him on a TV show or something.
parcs and rec
master of none
That’s the one
Rhymes with disease I’m sorry?
He was funny as the an hesis of the Indian Stereotype.
That was funny?
This. I’ve never found the guy funny, he got popular because millenials think it makes them look tolerant to find an extremely whitewashed Muslim guy funny.
He's Muslim
He's non-white
The way he's funny is though high energy and mannerisms, more slap stickish ala Jim Carrey and it almost seems like he's aware of that so tried really hard to be something he isn't good at being and it shows. It's painfully obvious he tries really hard to be a "smart" comedian, but he just comes off...just bland and unfunny.
The most I enjoyed him was in that movie with that ugly jew kid from ZombieLand where they have to rob a bank because Danny McBride, playing the same character he always plays, is forcing them to. It was because he was basically Arab Kevin Hart.
And non-funny.
Arab Kevin Hart at best, just no where near as bankable. Or funny.
Who was the plump Indian chick in The Office?
Same thing.
The Office....there’s a TV show I never understood the humor in.
And Indian.
Tee hee, Boots is stupid.
So, you also hate Parks and Rec?
Only seen 1 or 2 episodes and wasn’t a fan. I find Amy Pohler or however you spell it painfully unfunny.
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