Actor, comedian, and self proclaimed male feminist Aziz Ansari is the latest actor to face sexual assault allegations by a woman who claims the assault was “by far the worst experience with a man I’ve ever had.” Women’s lifestyle vertical Babe published an interview on late Saturday with a pseudonymous 23-year-old woman named “Grace,” who alleges that Ansari sexually assaulted her on their first and final date when she was 22. The publication was able to corroborate her claims by cross-referencing the phone number from which his text messages were sent to a public registry. Grace told the publication that after dinner the couple went back to his place when he immediately started groping her. The details of the encounter are graphic—escalating from aggressive kissing to oral sex, which she says she felt aggressively pressured into performing. Although she did not say “no,” Grace did not offer enthusiastic consent. Babe states:
The alleged victim says she used “verbal and non-verbal cues” to indicate her distress and lack of consent, and that she even turned stiff at one point to indicate her displeasure at his Ansari’s alleged advances. “I know I was physically giving off cues that I wasn’t interested,” said Grace. “I don’t think that was noticed at all, or if it was, it was ignored.” Following the uncomfortable foreplay situation, Grace says she went to wash up and collected herself. When she went back, he allegedly asked if she was okay. She told Babe that she was at first happy with his reaction to her call to slow things down, and then he asked her to just chill on the couch with him. She says the unexpected happened when she went to sit down with him and Ansari allegedly resumed pressuring Grace into having sexual intercourse with him—first making her perform oral sex again, and then bending her over in front of a mirror in a different part of the apartment to initiate coitus.
Grace says that while the TV played, Ansari once again made motions to be aggressive toward her, allegedly kissing her and sticking his fingers down her throat and moving to undo her pants. At this point, she says she turned away and being in a “different mindset,” she was able to ward off his aggressive advances.
At this point, Grace says she stood up and got her things and said she’d call herself an Uber. Ansari gave her a hug and allegedly went in for another aggressive kiss, which she pulled away from. “I cried the whole ride home. At that point I felt violated. That last hour was so out of my hand,” she said. A day after the encounter, Ansari texted Grace to tell her it was “fun meeting you last night,” but later apologized, claiming he “misread things in the moment.” |
Poster Comment:
What is with jamming your fingers into a woman's throat while trying to finger her? I'm not sure if even street hookers would put up with much of that.
Just another episode of Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous And Pathetically Creepy, I guess.
I don't have all that much sympathy for the "victim". She went to dinner with him and agreed to go back to his place. For what, coffee? Coffee doesn't mean just coffee. After he jammed fingers in various orifices, she then agreed to suck him a little more and to disrobe to stand bent over in front of a mirror with him behind her in some kind of sad dry-hump but then she decided that that made her feel un-nunlike? What was she expecting from agreeing to that?
OTOH, the pathetic and infantile behavior of these celebs does make the rest of us feel much better about our own sex lives.
Mashable:
| Aziz Ansari issued a statement Sunday night following an anonymous report from Babe 24 hours earlier, where a woman accused Ansari of sexual misconduct during a date the two went on in September.
In a statement to Mashable, Ansari essentially agreed with the woman's account of the evening, ending his note by stating that he "continue[s] to support the movement that is happening in our culture. It is necessary and long overdue." |