Comment by ProjectArcturis
21 days ago
I take the opposite view - Adams was an awful troll for years, and he deserved cancellation long before he got it.
21 days ago
I take the opposite view - Adams was an awful troll for years, and he deserved cancellation long before he got it.
Long before the racism thing, I remember how grossed out I was by him complaining that he only got to have sex when his girlfriend wanted it, therefore his girlfriend, and women in general, were the "gatekeepers" of sex.
Completing failing to recognize that consent is a two person affair.
Sure sounds like Adams was consenting to sex and the person gatekeeping the sex and making the consent not a two person affair was his girlfriend, which is why Adams was complaining to begin with.
You're entitled to feel grossed out by this I suppose but your feelings have nothing to do with whether Adams was correct or reasonable or not.
The weird part is, calling women gatekeepers of sex. When it is also men who gatekeeps.
The gross part is, that this reminds of older times, when men had the legal right to have sex with their wife whenever they wanted (it is a quite new thing, that there can be rape in marriage, the current chancellor of germany famously opposed this legal change). In short, patriarcharical BS that women are objects owned by men and that this is the natural order.
> "Why are we only allowed to have sex when you want it?"
> "Um, no honey, we both have to want to have sex in order for us to have sex."
> "Exactly, so men are only allowed to have sex when women want it. Access to sex is strictly controlled by the woman."
Two fundamentally different ways of looking at the same thing. Why did he feel like it ought to be any other way?
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