Yeah, he discusses it. To paraphrase, he suggests he's learnt from it. That women and men deem consent differently dependent on circumstances. It's not heavy, he intertwines it really well within his act and treats it as much as a 'look at what a dick I am' moment rather than a serious cathartic episode which, as someone tuning into watch a comedy hour, I was grateful for personally. I'm sure others would disagree and expect/want more of an outpouring of soul-searching but that's not present here.
I don’t mean to / want to adjudicate what happened, but “men and women see consent differently” seems like a wild misinterpretation of the situation (and really sidesteps the fact that he blacklisted people to silence them), but oh well. Just to be clear, I don’t condemn anyone for wanting to watch the special; I do find it super weird that CK, who I really admired for his sense of self-examination and seeming willingness to change his perspective based on empathy, is pretty much letting us decide whether what
we feel about what happened affects whether we support him.
On a weirdly related note, has anyone else been keeping up with this season of RuPaul’s Drag Race? Early in the season, one of the contestants, Sherry Pie, was outed for having catfished several men previously to having competed on the show. The show started airing a disclaimer, saying that they condemned this behavior, but that they’d be airing the season as is, though Sherry would be disqualified from participating in the finale, which is yet to be aired.
The ensuing season has been BIZARRE; every episode after #3 or so has obviously edited out Sherry, including episodes where she wins the challenge. I respect that the producers were in a bad spot, but the editing has really hamstrung the narrative of the season, since Sherry clearly is a frontrunner, and they’re removing every testimonial, interaction, and even her catwalk appearance in the most recent episode. This has even been to the detriment of
other contestants’ narratives; if the editors are pulling
every bit of Sherry out, that means even if Jan or Heidi may be saying something to Sherry, or Sherry responds to them, that interaction is being lifted out. So say someone’s arc involved befriending or fighting Sherry, that means that arc is butchered and removed. It’s a very weird season. I imagine at this point, it’s GiGi’s to win.
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