He's motioning to the audience as if asking them, 'Should I do it?' And they're cheering him on. |
It's like a forced strip show while the audience is cheering him on. Then he makes her bark like a dog. It's a form of sexual sadism, and this is on mainstream TV. |
Social change is a messy process. We need more men with the guts to stand up and say abusive behavior is abusive behavior, and it's not right, and it doesn't make me less of a man to point that out. |
That puts intense pressure on the victim to withdraw from the case. For a lot of victims, this is not worth it. |
The whole thing is so predictable. This is a form of sexism that is so mainstream that people don't even blink their eyes when they learn the Duke lacrosse team hired a stripper. In a perfect world, that would not be sexist. But this is a world where one in four college women are sexually assaulted and women can't walk on campus at night because of the threat of violence from men. |
Visually, they are ratcheting up what it takes to be menacing. Would young guys today be intimidated by Bogey with his little .38? I doubt it. |