rant · moment 9 of 27
Natalie Palamides' 'Nate' and Confusion Over Consent Gray Areas
from #229 - Blankets and Bug Chasers | The Tim Dillon Show · #229
4 min
Tim discusses the one-woman show Nate about toxic masculinity and consent, expressing bafflement at the idea that having sex with someone passed out or on the floor could be a 'gray area,' and riffs on people demanding he apologize for not having been raped or gotten COVID.
- Tim watched Natalie Palamides' Netflix special 'Nate,' a one-woman show about consent and toxic masculinity.
- Every straight man Tim knows is weeping openly, but he questions where the toxic masculinity actually is—women are tougher now.
- In the show, a character finds a mannequin on the floor and doesn't know what to do with it—Tim's confused about what gray area exists here.
- Who looks at someone passed out on the floor and thinks there's ambiguity about what to do.
- There are gray areas in consent, but also black-and-white ones: don't rape people.
- The show has a cult-like moment where the audience chants 'ask' in call-and-response.
- Tim's position: if someone is too drunk to have sex, don't have sex with them; if they're passed out, give them a blanket, not sex.
- Tim expects people to get angry and claim he doesn't understand the rape epidemic, but his logic remains unchanged.
- Tim apologizes for never being raped and not being dead from COVID—people want him to apologize just for being alive.
- When people tell you to be careful and watch out, it's a coded way of calling you ugly; if people are warning you about your appearance, you look like shit.
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