I kind of spoiled the punchline to this one with the title, but really, I heard that recently and it was one of the dumbest things I've ever heard in my life. I was watching Breaking Bad with some friends of mine - a series I've watched through a couple of times already, but I keep introducing it to people and watching it again because it's so good - and we got to that scene in season 2 (I think) where Walter very nearly rapes his wife. The entire point of the scene is to show how much darker and more willful Walt has become since starting his whole meth operation. Cue dumbass guy I know:
Dumbass: Wow, what a bitch.
Me: (not fully comprehending) Uhh, what?
Dumbass: He wants to have sex with his wife and she just pushes him away. What a bitch.
Other Friend: Well, it's understandable that she doesn't want to have sex with him now. Look at what he's done.
Dumbass: But they're married. She can have sex with him anytime she wants, and so can he. That's, like, the entire point of marriage.
Me: Are you serious? It doesn't matter if you're married or not - if one partner doesn't want to have sex, then forcing it on them is rape. It's still non-consensual.
Dumbass: Marriage means giving consent for life!
At this point, I was so awestruck that I was basically speechless. So, being the smoothest motherfucker on earth, I just got up and left without saying anything >_> I don't even know what you do say to that. It's so wrong in so many ways, that to address them all would probably require me to think like him, which I don't think I can distort my mind enough to do.
Dumbass: Wow, what a bitch.
Me: (not fully comprehending) Uhh, what?
Dumbass: He wants to have sex with his wife and she just pushes him away. What a bitch.
Other Friend: Well, it's understandable that she doesn't want to have sex with him now. Look at what he's done.
Dumbass: But they're married. She can have sex with him anytime she wants, and so can he. That's, like, the entire point of marriage.
Me: Are you serious? It doesn't matter if you're married or not - if one partner doesn't want to have sex, then forcing it on them is rape. It's still non-consensual.
Dumbass: Marriage means giving consent for life!
At this point, I was so awestruck that I was basically speechless. So, being the smoothest motherfucker on earth, I just got up and left without saying anything >_> I don't even know what you do say to that. It's so wrong in so many ways, that to address them all would probably require me to think like him, which I don't think I can distort my mind enough to do.
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