riffraff
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Interesting reaction Roy's Square. One of Rob's "charms" has been that people have a strong visceral reaction to how he presents himself and how far he has pushed the limits of acceptable behaviour. He can talk any kind of off-color, degrading, misogyny and for the most part we just shrug it off. What's that? "Boys will be boys"? The reports by Twohey and Filion of how he talked about Renata was OK to sell books? And a lot of people here have somehow concluded that its OK to trash her on the basis of Rob's shocking hateful, aggressive, bullying (very possibly) lies. Or maybe they're Rob's fantasies.
That stuff reminds me of Ghomeshi's dismissing his "hate-fuck" proclivities, and denying his verbal and probably physical assaults as minor "personal preferences". Same thing for the 'debate' about men verbally assaulting female journos on air, then defending their behavior as "funny".
Sadly men's sexual fantasies in a world that provides them with ample opportunities to act on them is not shocking. I pulled up the link and read the comments, including the writer's responses. Dreams are the unconscious mind's attempts to resolve issues and conflicts. And the post was under the site's Pissing Contest section (hint, hint). This was not a "fantasy" the writer ever intended to act on, but based on the kind of male hostility many women have to deal with from bosses, neighbours, associates, and strangers in the street, I didn't read it as a fantasy, but rather, possibly a nightmare, quite possibly based on real life situations she may have experienced and was trying to resolve in her dreams by putting herself in the reverse role of being the initiator? And the buzz upon waking was the sense of empowerment she took from it.
Obviously some women find Rob "attractive" in ways I can't understand. But he seems to be most attractive to a certain male demographic who instinctively relate to his dumb schmuck "loser-ness" as "empowering" to themselves.
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