The latest battle in the War of The Sexes is over Aziz Ansari. Really.
In case you don't recognize the name, Aziz Ansari is a comedian and was on the hit TV show "Parks and Recreation". He played Tom Haverford, a stylish member of a mythical parks and recreation departement in Indiana. He was pretty funny on the show, although I can only take him in small doses.
Stop me if you had heard this before. He meets a woman at a party. They go to his place. Yadda, yadda.
Actually, if you want to read more about this encounter, you can find an article on Babe. Net about it. Until this week, I never heard of Babe.Net, but I assume the mission of Babe. Net is to keep everybody woke.
"Grace" (the young lady) describes meeting Mr. Ansari, going on the date, and then going back to his apartment in the fashionable Manhattan Tribeca neighborhood. You can almost hear the squeal when the writer notes Taylor Swift lives in the same apartment building.
From there, the article reads like a "Letter to Penthouse" gone wrong. The article goes into great detail about what Ansari and "Grace" did.
As a dude, I will say it was a lot for a first date. Things must have changed from the time when I was on prowl.
I won't go into great detail except to say at Wheeler High School in 1975 it would have been considered a Double Grand Slam Home Run where your team gets eight runs instead of four.
She said she gave him "verbal" and "non-verbal" cues to indicate she wasn't interested but he ignored them.
I hate to quote myself, but you cannot give cues "verbal" or "non-verbal" to a man especially when he has the itch. Here's what I wrote several weeks ago.
"You cannot say to a man, "go to the store and buy milk" thinking he will automatically know what brand to buy just because it has been magically appearing in the refrigerator for five years. No, you have to say, "Get the milk that has the picture of a cow wearing an apron" or he'll come back with almond milk or maybe a six-pack of Sprite."
If it is difficult to get a man to run an errand, correctly, try to imagine how difficult it is to get a man to understand that "you're not interested" when he is very interested. He understands "cues" like a dog understands Greek.
That's why Grandma slapped her gentleman callers. That's about the only cue a man with loving on his mind understands.
But instead of slapping Ansari, "Grace" kind of mealy-mouthed her way through the encounter.
When she left, she felt embarassed and humiliated because, ewwww, Tom Haverford.
I mean, on the chain of celebraties to date, comedians are not rock stars. Especially, wee ones like Ansari. But still, he was a celebrity and it is not news that celebrities use their celebrity to get what Grandpa used to call nookie.
"Grace" was ready to let the episode fade into her past as a simple twist of fate until she watched The Golden Globes. Ansari won an award and wore a "Times Up" button indicating his support "support for the fight against sexual assault and harassment". Although the Babe.Net article doesn't say, this is probably what drove "Grace" to tell her story.
"Grace" felt like Ansari was a cad. No argument from me.
However, this is where the story gets sort of funny.
The article notes Ansari is not some testosterone filled 18 year old but "a 34-year-old actor and comedian of global renown who’s probably done more thinking about the nuances of dating and sex in the digital age than practically anyone else."
I've done a lot of thinking about "the nuances of dating and sex", too. The difference being I did mine during the paleozoic era.
The article states his routines now focus "less on his own sexual disenfranchisement and more on pressing societal issues like racism and sexual assault, a move that’s earned him tons of praise." One magazine called him a "certified woke bae". That is the second highest praise a millennial can give to a person. (The highest praise: "totally certified woke bae")
A couple of things. Someone in the entertainment industry being hypocritical. Wow. Knock me down with a feather.
Two, even though Ansari has admitted the sex part of the encounter, it is still basically "He said-she said". I'm not sure how we are suppose to react to a knock-down dragged out account of the passion except to accept every word out of "Grace's"mouth and that Ansari should never work again or at the very least have his certification of wokeness revoked. Ansari should be happy he's not a college student or he would have been expelled.
Three, Ansari apparently humilated "Grace" so "Grace" decided to humilate Ansari with a detailed look at his boorish technique. The dude needs to read a couple of books, if you know what I mean.
Of course, there are those that say we need to have a "conversation" about women, men and sex. My causal observation that those who want to have a "conversation" actually want to have a "monologue" and guess who will be talking.
But maybe I'm just not woke enough.
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