Am I an alt-right monster for reading the Kotaku article and come away thinking that maybe lore is maybe kinda innocent here?
Like he gets into the shower with her, being the awkward weirdo he is, but backs off when she tells him to fuck off. Then a few months later, they’re in a relationship together until E3 2015?
I can't relate to thinking it's not a big deal.
Have a girlfriend/wife/sister/daughter?
What would your reaction be if you found out a dude decided to jump into a shower naked with her uninvited when she was so drunk she was puking?
Or likewise, what if you had a male friend you knew did that shit, would you stay friends with them?
I've unfriended dudes for less creepy shit personally, and in my opinion, people thinking this shit isn't a big deal is a fucked up part of society.
But she eventually got into a relationship with him shortly afterwards, by her own admission. So right off the bat, this goes from "Tyler tried to rape a drunk, sick girl in the shower" territory to potentially something as insignificant as "you wouldn't believe what this fool I'm considering for boyfriend material tried to do".
Relationships and human interactions are complicated. This is one reason why I have such distaste the whole intersectional feminism movement – it demonizes trivial or insignificant things that occur in every relationship.
I've tried to put the moves on my wife before when she wasn't in the mood for it. If she wanted, she could probably go out and tell the internet a story and make me sound like a creepy monster. Conversely, she's done things to me where I could spin up a tale about how she's a villainess who would emotionally abuse me, try to start up sexy time shenanigans when I wasn't in the mood, etc. But believe it or not, we have a happy, loving relationship. We just had our second child together last week.
You can't tell me you've never been in a relationship where you got mixed signals, or just did something stupid but otherwise harmless in the context of that relationship, yet if the other person wanted, they could make it sound like something far more terrible than it was.
Unless you're MessOfAnEgo – in which case, you've never even had a girlfriend, yet continue to dole out relationship advice.
Thats the other things about social justice shit – it makes you assume the absolute worst about everything. Yes, I would agree that it is
entirely possible that lore did something creepy and rapey that he knew was way out of bounds. But that she got into a relationship with him for a while after the incident in question happened makes me think that the real story is probably much grayer than it is black and white.
