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    BawitabahAimée Lutkin
    4/30/16 2:42pm

    He said “we paid for you” and also didn’t respond to her “stop” and “no.” Maybe it sounds very radical fem but camera lens can be male gazey and with the non consent here this feels kind of rapey (no, that doesn’t undermine actual rape...this is a different degree but in my understanding there is a spectrum of violence.) I have no doubt that’s what schumer was conveying here - which is also why she’s taking this action.

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      Styles99Bawitabah
      4/30/16 2:54pm

      I agree this gay went too far, and is a ridiculous asshole... but camera lenses feel “male gazey” and “rapey”? To a woman who has done “scandalous” photoshoots for many magazines and being on camera is literally her livelihood? No thanks, for the rape pseudo-comparison.

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      NonServiam's GhostStyles99
      4/30/16 2:59pm

      OP said camera lenses can be male-gazey. This is a perfect application of OP’s statement. If going into someone’s face to shoot them against their will isn’t male-gazey-rapeish, I don’t know what is.

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    LibraryanneagainAimée Lutkin
    4/30/16 2:38pm

    Dude, you paid for a movie ticket/cable and received a movie/tv show. End of contract.

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      diamond-walled-pandemoniumLibraryanneagain
      4/30/16 2:49pm

      lol he’s her sound engineer. his name is Steve.

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      I made a pigeonratLibraryanneagain
      4/30/16 2:52pm

      I don’t understand that mindset at all. Are celebrities not allowed to be off the clock? If someone started harrassing me on my day off to put together some spreadsheets I might even become violent

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    MimiLaRueAimée Lutkin
    4/30/16 2:38pm

    Meh... I’m not even an Amy Schumer fan but let his life be destroyed *online*. “We paid for you” has to be the smarmiest phrase ever uttered while violating someone.

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      Tupiniquim - white cat with hands is all of usMimiLaRue
      4/30/16 2:45pm

      Plus I doubt he'd ever dare say the same thing to any male comedian.

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      MingauxTupiniquim - white cat with hands is all of us
      4/30/16 2:52pm

      I don’t know - I get the impression that he would act like an entitled dick to anyone, just to inflate his own ego. Probably the bane of all waiters in a 50 mile radius. An “Equal Opportunity Annoyer”, if you will.

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    GELLA - LLAPAimée Lutkin
    4/30/16 2:40pm

    no it’s America and we paid for you

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      Myra FlectionGELLA - LLAP
      4/30/16 2:55pm

      #teamPicard4evah

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      DianeBKGELLA - LLAP
      4/30/16 5:29pm

      no it’s America and we paid for you

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    AlannaofTrebondAimée Lutkin
    4/30/16 2:41pm

    Ever think about how it’s 2016 and we still can’t shake the belief that people are a commodity?

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      BoBannaAlannaofTrebond
      4/30/16 3:29pm

      In this context, I think Schumer being female and the aggressor being male are essential components of him treating her as a commodity. Male celebs are also subjected to invasive and unwanted attention, but this “I/we paid for you [so I can do anything I want to you even if you say ‘no’]” sounds like a john thinking he can be abusive to a sex worker.

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      DanceswithPeeps The Burner v2.1AlannaofTrebond
      4/30/16 3:30pm

      Women and POC are commodities.

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    KarynAimée Lutkin
    5/01/16 1:54am

    Y’know, shit like this makes me mad on so many levels, but the main one is this:

    I had the opportunity to be rather personally involved with someone who is in a relatively well-known band, and again later with a somewhat well known comedian. Seeing it from the celebrity side of things without BEING the celebrity gives one a unique perspective on the entitlement non-famous people feel toward famous people.

    Nothing, NOTHING makes me angrier than people who feel that they’ve “paid” for someone’s personal time by virtue of paying for their professional time. So what if you paid for concert tickets or movie tickets or magazines or whatever? That doesn’t entitle you to anything more than the concert, movie, or magazine. How would you like it if you were, say, an attorney, and people decided they were entitled to your time 24/7 just because they paid you for a few hours of your professional time?

    I once saw my favorite singer from my favorite band (not the above-referenced one) in the concierge level of a hotel in which I was staying. We were both having breakfast in the lobby. I’d idolized this guy for five years, and I wanted nothing more than to say hello... but he was with his daughter, who, at the time, was maybe ten years old. I was not about to interrupt a private moment with his kid, which probably didn’t happen often enough, to ask for a goddamn photo. I’d had enough “crazy fan” experiences with the guy in my band to even think about it.

    All this is to say nothing of how rapey this guy who essentially attacked Amy Schumer sounds, and how 100% disgusted I am with him for that alone.

    Sorry for the rant. This shit is just a sore spot for me.

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      seeemmteeKaryn
      5/01/16 12:10pm

      Good job making this all about you and what a great person you are!

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      brontebratKaryn
      5/01/16 1:30pm

      Thanks for this take. I often wonder what I would do if I saw my favorite band’s lead singer in public. On one hand it’s a once in a lifetime chance (you seem to have a job/life where you have contact with these types. I don’t). On the other, does he look like he just wants to sit there and eat his tacos? Is he with family/friends/wife/gf/kids? Would my respect for his work mean respect for leaving him alone? It would kill me to not be able to say what he means to me but yeah, I lean towards leaving him alone.

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    No1CurrAboutYourBonerAimée Lutkin
    4/30/16 2:44pm

    “We paid for you.”

    WHAT. THE. FUCK.

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      Rooo sez BISH PLZNo1CurrAboutYourBoner
      4/30/16 3:44pm

      /raise your hand if doubly mortified that it’s a man of color saying it to the rubia Amy — in front of his daughter, no less

      :-/

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      No1CurrAboutYourBonerRooo sez BISH PLZ
      4/30/16 4:21pm

      Spot on. Everything about this encounter is mortifying, and now you’ve pointed out a new layer of horror.

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    ThisIsMyThirdNameAimée Lutkin
    4/30/16 2:36pm

    I would like to dick punch that guy, then post a selfie with the same thumbs up pose.

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      DroopDrawersAbbeyAimée Lutkin
      4/30/16 3:02pm

      Hey what’s with Americans and the ol’ “this is America” line?

      Geez, shutup.

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        Akat101DroopDrawersAbbey
        4/30/16 3:18pm

        At least we aren’t kicking people into bottomless holes when we say it? Yet. :/

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        DroopDrawersAbbeyAkat101
        4/30/16 3:30pm

        I’m pretty sure you are. I don’t think I could bring myself to say “this is Canada” without giggling.

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      MartinisAreLovelyAimée Lutkin
      4/30/16 2:41pm

      no it’s America and we paid for you

      Was she on stage or in a press conference when you wanted to take her photo? No, just walking as a private citizen on the street, you say. She may be a celebrity, but she’s also a person. And paying for people was made very very illegal in the mid 1800s. So, uh, NO.

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        Slamdance CosmopolisMartinisAreLovely
        4/30/16 2:52pm

        Somewhat ironic that a POC in the American South doesn’t understand that...

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