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Justin Roiland used his ‘Rick and Morty’ fame to pursue young fans, text messages show
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not gonna lie, after reading the article, there's not a lot there. I understand that people can be put in positions where they feel like they "have" to say yes, but they literally don't? I think this is more of a case like Louie C.K. These guys are likely autistic and lacking the ability to really clue in on social cues. Guys that have always been unattractive and lacking in attention from women, suddenly has all the attention of women! So they do dumb stuff, that they should have learned not to do when they were young, but again, nerds gonna nerd, and nerds have not always been celebrated like they are today. I think he just going through a slutty phase because he finally can. from his texts he doesn't come off as a predator, but as a person who's so used to being told "no," that he doesn't know what to do with himself or how to act once they started saying "yes."
You tell me you say that the guy who literally waited for women in their dressingroom naked and started to masterbute as they walked in was just "lacking the ability to really clue in on social cues".
I don't know anymore with these apologists like you. Are you trolling or really this misguided?
If I remember correctly he asked them first and wasn't just in their room naked. They just felt they couldn't say no because he was in a position of power.
Although I think this is a little different because it involves children who may think they know what they are doing but don't fully understand yet. So a little different
Can you cite where CK was accused of that? I'm not saying it didn't happen, but most of what I saw indicted he asked but the woment felt like they had to say yes.
I thought he invited the women to his room, and never tried to force them to show up or stay. I'm not trying to defend Louis, the most charitable thing you can say is that it was creepy and weird AF. But If there is more to it, this is the first I'm hearing of it.
What JDW wrote is what he was accused of. I don't know what else you read that didn't mention those direct allegations.
That doesn't excuse the underage thing.
My wife is autistic, that's not how autism works. You may be bad at reading social ques, but that doesn't mean you don't understand rejection, or that you don't understand that you shouldn't be prowling for underaged women. Most of the times its just not picking up inflections of voice, or they don't know if theyre reading people's facial expressions correctly.
Kinda sounds like youre equivocating powerful old dudes grooming kids to boys will be boys.......
The simple fact that he's talking to several 16 year old about sex is predatory in and of it's self.
Maybe its because I'm closer to his age than most people on here, but the thought of chatting up anyone close to 16 years old is fucking gross. I have nothing in common with a sixteen year old girl, he has nothing in common with a sixteen year old girl.
He just a gross asshole, and anyone who defends him because you like the same shitty played out subculture........ is also a gross asshole.
If I did what I did as a kid now I would find myself an asshole
You're joking... right?