Thursday, March 15, 2018

Benjamin Glaze gets Katie Perry cooties

This is stupid.

I saw it half a dozen times, so apparently it's a thing with right wing blogs. They're eager to point out the (hypocrisy, is it?) of an older woman kissing a young unwilling guy contrasted with #metoo.

Pound me too.

It's not just right-wing blogs. When you search YouTube [Katie Perry] all you get is this. If you want her song videos, you have to ask specifically. I didn't recognize her as last call night crawler glam dominatrix street whore. We know her under a different hair color and length, different costuming and different stage behavior.

Because of this, commenters call Benjamin gay. How rude. The guy wanted his first kiss to be real, not ghoulish make-up slathered and goth costumed insincere on stage as performance with bugs flying all around. Maybe that part was imagined.

10 comments:

Amartel said...

This falls under the category of making them live up to their own playbook which they're just sadly incapable of doing. Note that suddenly "gay" is an approved insult when used in reference to a non-narrative supporting position, in this case: I would prefer not to be mauled for publicity by a nuisance leftist one and a half hit wonder gadfly famous for kissing people but who has long since outlived her 15 minutes like some sort of botoxed, spackled, spangled, mrs bojangled zombie. Thanks just the same.

ricpic said...

Katie Perry is an "older woman?!"

Amartel said...

33 years older.

Methadras said...

I would not kick Katie Perry to the curb.

Chip Ahoy said...

Yeah, older than the teenager.

I just now recalled something funny that's similar. I was 21 and dating a woman older than myself by a few years. And those few years made a big difference. I was guessing her age to be 25 and I thought that was neat-o mosquito.

*boy voice* I was so m-a-c-h-u-u-u-u-r.

Scene II.

A group of deaf friends met another deaf guy on his lunch, which was like 1:00a.m. since he worked nights. We converged at Reece's Coffee House tucked into the street level of Brooks Tower on Curtis St. between FRB and Performance Arts Center. An ace location but a cheap shoddy coffeehouse that served large burritos. We're all sitting around two tables pushed together. This was familiar territory for Jeff and me but not for everyone else. Jeff and I worked together at one time and that was a convenient place to get out of the building for lunch. Jeff and I sat at opposite ends of the two tables pushed together. I am the only hearing person there. Jeff introduced me to that girlfriend I had at the time. The person sitting next to him was asking about her and that piqued my interest in their conversation. I eavesdropped. I saw Jeff misstate her age. I broke in, "Jeff, you said the wrong number. She's 25." I was actually assuming that. That was her age I casually deduced by available evidence. "Jeff said, "Oh no. She forgot her purse in a restaurant one time and asked me to go back and get it, so I did, but I also opened it and looked at her I.D. in her wallet and it showed a date that calculated to her being *increased emphasis* 36 years." He returned to her grinning with her purse held high in triumph. He totally scored. This woman did NOT look or behave her age. She was one of those, whatcha call it, twinkie-leopards, or whatever. The whole table erupted in excited revelation. (We didn't last.)

And looking back on it, the whole thing gives me the creeps. What was she doing with us boys anyway? I feel used.

I wonder, does that place even still exist? *opens Google Earth* Apparently not. Looks like a manicure place now.

Leland said...

I don't disagree with Armartel, but this really is stupid. No one will discuss this as it should be, which is in a professional setting of an interview for a job on TV show or anywhere else; should there even be a discussion that includes whether you have been kissed. That was the error from the get go. But boring job interviews make for bad television.

This show is entirely about TV ratings. Talking about kissing and other stuff is interesting. Seeing a first kiss on TV is interesting to many. An attractive and well financed woman giving a young boy his first kiss is extremely interesting. And so nobody thought any thing of it until after the fact.

Do I care? Not really, and I say this because I didn't watch the show at all, nor have been interested enough to read much about it or see even the clipped clip. I understand what is wrong with a woman in her position (and age) kissing an job applicant (and at his age), but without watching anything, I don't think she meant to scar the boy for life. And while I respect the boy's fundamental beliefs; he is a knave. If he kept that attitude as he intended, it would likely scar him more than her awakening. If you disagree; I suggest checking out Jordan Peterson's book and his discussion of Sleeping Beauty.

What I care about is the prudes on both sides. The #MeToo's and the religious fundamentalism that even a kiss is as sacred and important as sexual penetration. I'm not opposed to the notion of people keeping hands, feet, and lips to themselves unless otherwise given permission to touch, but generally permission was given for touch; and a kiss on the lips versus a cheek is not rape in my book. It is sad that we have so many in modern society who would call it so. Those people I don't like.

For now though, I'm with Armartel that Katy Perry can live the dream of dealing with a simple encounter being overblown. Men have a right to be believed too. So I believe him, and what she did was beyond the consent given. Also, I do not think anyone would have let Simon Cowell get away with doing something like that (a contestant did kiss him once, but she made all the moves).

Amartel said...

Right. Obviously, it IS stupid. Which lends perspective to the vast majority of the scoldy lefty complaints - ew, that peasant LOOKED at me, etc. etc.
If that's how we're going to play, then fine: Let the kid make his complaint.

Amartel said...

Also, Katy Perry ain't all that. Scrape off all that spackle and remove the foundation garments and she's pretty ordinary/ordinary pretty. And her songs are annoying.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Katy has a crap voice. She has to use one of those machines to get any voice traction.

chickelit said...

The point isn't whether Katy Perry is hot or not or whether it's stupid that a "boy" was holding out for a more meaningful first kiss. The point is the utter hypocrisy of reversed sex roles. Any man who did that to a younger woman would be excommunicated from entertainment. That it the equality reality that liberals must be forced to live in, if only to make them miserable.