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French comic blasted over 'air sex' stunt
Online anger continued to build on Monday against a French comic who used visual perspective tricks to make a video of him having "air sex" with unsuspecting women in public.
A French comic may have intended his air sex video as a joke, but it's been widely rebuked online for glorifying "rape culture".
In the clip titled Free sex, which has racked up 3.3 million views in a matter of days, French comic Rémi Gaillard uses visual perspective pranks to make it look like he is having sex with unsuspecting women in public.
The reaction has been swift and firmly negative from many observers.
Writer Dom Bochel Guégan wrote on the website of French magazine Nouvel Observateur that the video is a trivialization of the sexual violence of which we have been or will be one day the victim of.
http://www.thelocal.fr/20140331/french-comic-draws-swift-rebuke-over-air-sex-clip
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)SidDithers
(44,228 posts)what a fuckin piece of shit.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4759858
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It's a joke. Overreaction.
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Sid
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)thanks sid. funny funny. and ya.
thanks
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)demeaning, degrading women.... then my post should be hidden. i did not read the reason for the alert. that says a hell of a lot more. that now it is expected i laugh, or at least, merely ignore, while the guys play and giggle?
no
11 Bravo
(23,922 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)Slightly clever as a site gag, but not uproariously hilarious.
When the women notice him, he slinks off.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)Brickbat
(19,339 posts)ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)I thought it was really disrespectful.
MuseRider
(34,060 posts)and I don't say that lightly. There are only a few people I reserve that comment for and this fits perfectly.
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)siligut
(12,272 posts)Seriously? They are bent over or whatever long enough for him to set up the camera and then do his bit? They all look similar too, I am betting the ones we see from behind have wigs on so they can be 'used' again.