Not really surprising
NOVEMBER 12–The viral video claiming to show a series of men plotting to take advantage of a drunk Los Angeles woman was staged by the clip’s creators, who fed lines to the purported predators, dupes who thought they were appearing in a student film, The Smoking Gun has learned.
The video, “Drunk Girl In Public,” is described as a “social experiment” by creator Stephen Zhang, 20, who apparently sought to ride the coattails of the 35 milllion-view Hollaback! video showing a woman being peppered with catcalls as she walked across New York City.
Zhang’s video, shot on Hollywood Boulevard, has been viewed nearly 4.5 million times since it was uploaded to YouTube on November 8.
The clip stars actress Jennifer Box, 24, who teeters on high heels while drinking from a paper bag. The clip portrays the tipsy Box as prey being stalked by the men she encounters. […]
According to two sources familiar with the clip’s production, the men in the video were approached on the street to take part in a “comedic, hidden camera” video. One source, who said he declined an invitation to be in the video, told TSG that he was told the production was a “student video.” He added that the film crew did not ask for participants to sign releases or any other “paperwork.”
While it appears that Zhang is in it for the publicity rather than politics, his hoax did play to the Blame Men crowd …
Guys, find your humanity. Girl fakes she's drunk in Hollywood, draws lizards and creeps. VIDEO http://t.co/iieBkCbGik pic.twitter.com/pGVTZpDyCO
— Jill Stewart (@jillstewart) November 12, 2014
Boys commenting on the 'drunk girl' video "they're trying to make males look bad!" like lol, we don't try at all. You do it all yourselves.
— Fawn Mead (@xFAWNx) November 12, 2014
“I hate the knee-jerk reaction that this is outright staged. I don’t think it is. […] So, to me, fine, say that the majority of men are not predatory assholes who will try to take advantage of drunk women at the first opportunity, because that is true. But don’t say that this isn’t a predictable and realistic reaction for some men.
> Girl fakes she’s drunk< pregnant, abused, et al. go away little girl and your
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Those sailors in Istanbul weren’t acting.
Not too sure about the crowd either.
well infidels luz tuz. all hail the
proggtardedallan crowdLet’s zero in on the last comment for a second:
So. What implications, if any, do we find here for slut walks and night taking-backs?
Or is it too much to ask for consistency from a feminista?
There’s been a lot of bad news out of California lately.
Here’s -a faint glimmer of hope.
Ernst
I’ll take that glimmer … as it appears at least 10K felons are eligible under the new Prop 47 to be let loose from State Prison/County Prison/County Jail
Fake but accurate again?
They should do that video as a man and see how fast he gets beaten, robbed, hassled by the cops, tased, thrown in the tank and forced into emergency psyc.
Darleen, pretty awesome, isn’t it? All of those prisoners in State prisons shoved back down to county (AB109?) and now those same prisoners will be set free. As a deputy told me, people don’t get sent to State prison for minor drug infractions. Generally.
When we were about 21, a friend had a party at his house. An underage girl about 16 was drunk and making passes at a 19 yo friend. She ended up stripping naked and crawling into a bed. The 19 y.o. friend was a straight up good Christian kid and called for help. We eventually got some girls at the party to get her dressed and we carried her out to a friends car to drive her home.
#notallmen
Sci-fi nerds know stupid when they see it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DCDYSJwwE4
On Halloween I went shopping late to King Soopers (a large Denver grocery as most readers here know). A young clerk opened an aisle just for me (asshole who shops late has full cart and cannot do the self check). I didn’t want him to be cross so I bagged my own items and as it was costume holiday chatted it up by asking the tall handsome young dude, “Do you have any kids.”
A simple yes or no would do, I did not expect the flood tide that followed. I did not intend to provoke. “No.” He stated flatly with anger. (at me? for making him open an aisle). Haven’t found the right girl. All I ever meet are women who take advantage of me. Treat me nice at first, use me for fun, to go places, use me for money for backup, for resolution of their bills, transportation, take my things, verbally abuse me, call me all kind of names, accuse me of ridiculous things, blame me for all that is wrong in their lives then dump me.” Somewhat shocked at his being so candid with a stranger, he continues. “One after another. They act so entitled like I’m here merely to fulfill their expectations. That’s all I ever get.” I’m thinking, wow, I did not intend to open the floodgates like this. All this must have been recent. He goes on, my trolly was quite full, “One girl after another. It’s like I’m a psycho-magnet or something. I do not seek out particularly beautiful women, but that is the pattern. It’s all I’ve experienced. I simply cannot find a nice girl to marry.”
I suddenly realized the frustration of my younger brother in California who experienced a similar thing. My brother is quite a good catch. Good looking fellow, excellent job, well paid, well-rounded, charming personality, and I mean charming. Much more endearing than myself. When we are together, no matter what, everybody, and I mean everybody gravitates to him and ignores me. Even gay men in San Francisco were all over the guy and I’m like, what am I, chopped liver? Jeeze. His girlfriend gave him an espresso machine and I asked him in front of her, “Is this what you had in mind?” She bought him a cheap ass model while he had already expressed to me he had his eye on a super dooper high end machine. On return to Denver I asked him how things were going and he told me the girl I met and he had broken up.
Oops.
It suddenly makes sense why he went to eastern Europe over a period of a few trips to find a wife for himself in Ukraine. I thought that was odd. The sort of desperate thing that fat balding losers do, so I thought, and that does not describe my brother. Now he has a gorgeous young wife (with a deplorable accent) who adores him, is thrilled to be American and already has blessed him with two beautiful entertaining active boys.
This concludes my two anecdotes relating to sexual relations in America.
But that is somewhat depressing. To cheer you, would you like to see an anim wot I dun celebrating the landing of Phoebe on Rosetta stone comet?
Ich bin eine big fan of king sopors, myself.
That grocery clerk sounds like he has a lot in common with the woman here:
Seems to me that both sexes are becoming overly confused because they’re conflating roll in the hay folks with marriage material folks. (Sure, there’s occasionally some overlap, especially if you meet young.)
The super tatted up dude without a job was a loser? Well, that’s surprising. The crazy, drunk chick stole your wallet? Wow, who could have seen that coming.
If you’re not willing to be awkward and at least half sober for four or five dates in a row and ask about what they do for a living or where their folks live, then shut the fuck up already. This isn’t a big mystery.
The sad fact of life isn’t that so many of us are lonely. The sad fact of life is that most of us are living within a mile of a perfectly good mate.