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Old Snook free1/17/2024 Go ahead, shit on me, I don’t mind, I’m the Cool Girl. “Cool Girls never get angry they only smile in a chagrined, loving manner and let their men do whatever they want. But Brand rose to fame at a time when women often felt pressure to laugh off things they secretly found uncomfortable, in the name of seeming sophisticated and free of being the fantasy “cool girl” who, as the narrator of Gillian Flynn’s iconic 2012 novel Gone Girl famously puts it, loves football and beer and threesomes and never expects anything in return. It’s easy to wonder, viewing that footage now, why the women at that gig were laughing. But what if it wasn’t? What if the audience laughing eagerly along were really rewarding and normalising something we now call abuse, while behind them the mainstream TV and media industry he now makes a career out of railing against was enthusiastically doing the same? When comics talk about themselves on stage, often it’s an act. It was the way Dispatches spliced footage of Brand onstage – joking about his enthusiasm for rough sex, for blowjobs that left women choking and gasping and with mascara running down their faces – together with footage of a woman named only as Alice, describing how she allegedly experienced just that with Brand when she was only 16 and he a grown man of 31. The most haunting moment for me of last weekend’s joint investigation by Channel 4’s Dispatches programme, the Sunday Times and the Times wasn’t the admittedly horrific allegations of rape and sexual assault (which Brand denies, insisting that even at his wildest all the sex was consensual).
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