The comedian reportedly told a New York City audience that he waited to talk about the allegations in order to process it and figure out what he wanted to say.
Patrick You are innocent until proven guilty. That is what the legal system is based upon. Nobody should ever be in a position to prove their innocence. That is a dangerous thing you have said, that all women should be believed. Women should be heard and acknowledged, but to be believed is something different.
Dalipep Dalipep No that's not what Punjab Muslim teaches. In fact Punjabis are the most respected community in India. But does your religion teaches racism?
@@Anonymous-gh6xf Punjab Muslim is respected? I was away taught by my religious shaman that Punjab Islam is the religion of mud. The religion of shit. You can confirm?
He did something wrong in the sense that he seems to have been kind of a douche. But it's Aziz, so I'm guessing the woman already knew he was kind of a douche. Other than that - he had no employer power over her, he was not physically assaulting or restraining her, he did not force her to do anything. She could have stood up for herself more or left, and just didn't. Her claim of being a victim seems to be based in the idea that women are powerless by default, and go into these situations as designated victims - and women should find this idea far more offensive than Ansari's behaviour.
@Ralph Seeing as Aziz said that she texted him afterwards saying that she was uncomfortable, and claims to have taken it to heart, I'd says Aziz and I are on the same page in this. But I'm sure the hole you're talking out of is good too.
@@L1Run Complete BS. She used her subjective feelings to try and burn his career down. Years later now we know how to combat this tactic. #JusticeForJohnny
He was just born the "wrong" color/race! If Aziz were white, do you think that bitch would have come forward with such accusations for that awkward date? Doubt it!
He likes to make you think that way about him by playing that character in master of none. But in real life hes just another freak who uses his fame to choke teenage girls
I think the "Me Too" movement has gotten out of hand. And before y'all lose it, I'm a woman and a survivor of sexual assault - and some of you are using "the movement" to either get revenge on a guy or get attention. This demeans REAL assault survivors. JS
As someone who has also been on the receiving end of false harasment allegations I understand what he might have gone through. Because you're a man no one tends to believe that you could be innocent, almost like reverse sexism.
From what I heard a date(woman) Aziz was with was uncomfortable but it was hardly a "rape" or violent crime. I would agree that in 2020s era, be open & honest with any woman prior to acting rash or feeling you can be 😘.
It's funny how this is still framed that Aziz was a perpetrator instead of a victim. Think about the message all men walk away from here. Every interaction between people is technically sexual misconduct and the judge and jury of that trial is the person claiming it. No amount of self reflection nor behavioral modifications on Aziz's part could have protected him or protects him from these consequences now or in the future. Based on the continuing conversation I think the Japanese culture has it right. Since personal relationships are too fraught with risk and messy consequences perhaps only paid for services should be considered. Perhaps that's what we need, since it is making the Japanese culture disappear, perhaps it will finally kill the supposedly patriarchal rape culture of the West as well.
Very true, but in the same way, I think it’s a positive message he’s sending, some men & women can be disrespectful or pushy, it’s good that we think about the impact it could have on someone. I do command him for being this honorable about it because she and the journalist make me very very very angry, I wished that there was bigger consequences for fake sexual assault charges, even though it could go overboard, it’s tricky. Reading the comments here, we can see that he’s still perceived as a rapist by some because they didn’t bother reading the story, they took it at face value, this is so frustrating to see.
I also feel like as a male comedian you're most definitely looked at even more under a magnifying glass. But also as a comedian people do not always take content the way you deliver it, or the way it was intended. Not talking about it would have made him look more misogynistic. Not going to lie though, I wasn't super happy that they threw Louis c.k. in there. But that's another discussion...
Aziz needs to stand up for himself at this point. Either he's being fake and giving a fake apology to avoid confrontation or he's actually genuinely scared and feels like he did something wrong. He didn't
I think Ansari is a very smart and sensitive man and he took the time to think this whole thing through. I admire his honesty and self reflection, not many men that the time to look through themselves and learn from their experiences. He didn't abuse anyone but he went through a deep analysis of himself anyway showing what a great man he is. To apologize and be ready to discuss this in public is brave and intelligent. He's a very talented man and I hope he will go on with his career.
Olammide, Georgia has a point on this to a certain extent. Ansari didn't abuse or sexually assault this woman, but the woman was uncomfortable and she thought the nonverbal clues were a hint. However, everyone doesn't get every nonverbal clue that is shown. I don't believe the woman should have exposed Ansari to the world, but it can also educate men to take a deeper analysis of sexual nonverbal clues when a woman is uncomfortable. This is just my two cents on this topic.
@@Cobbido I mean, it sounds like he desperately needed to learn how bad he was at sex. Dude should be embarrassed at how inept he is. The move she described as 'the claw'? It's something you'd see in bad porn, which is probably where he got it from.
When Aziz was thrown in with Weinstein, Spacey & CK.... I thought that was absolutely ridiculous!! He had an awkward DATE!! But, he’s such a sweet guy, he felt the need to take a year & reflect. I don’t think he needed to, but it wasn’t my call. I’m just happy to see him back on stage! Now let’s get the series going too! Love Aziz! 👏
Lois didn't do anything wrong either, he asked before he did anything. Some of the people he asked felt weird about being asked to begin with and made that public but he did not do anything.
I'm a 52 year old white male. I've had "awkward" dates too 🤔 but other "encounters" that ended in hot sex! 🔥 the big point is be 💯 sure the girl feels or acts the same. If she's drunk or off balance, don't be a cad, creep.
I feel bad for Aziz. He clearly did nothing wrong and was raked over hot coals for a year by a woman that came on to him and then just changed her mind without giving him any sort of tangible way to know. Men's entire careers are now at the whim of a woman's feelings. He couldn't even step up and and say she was full of shit because even defending himself assertively is forbidden now as shaming the "victim".
It's even stupid to talk about that irrelevant shit like a crime has happened but Aziz is an unsecure try hard gentleman and white knight who thinks he's automatically wrong when a woman cries about the most stupid bullshit. A brainwashed comedian who is scared of his career and who has no self respect when it comes to women, especially toxic women. He's the male product of the modern third wave feminism so it's not even surprising that he apologized for something that wasn't even his fault.
Don’t drag all women this one. I hate guys that automatically put women on the same level cause of the actions of one. From the get go this woman was sketchy, she went after him on an event where she went with a date and that right there tells you the type of woman she was.
No where in this report does it say "false allegation" which is what it was. That woman and the reporter and the blerb she wrote for were lambasted for this. Many women said she was not assaulted and her experience with Ansari and the me too movement are not the same
Yes it was embarrassing for him that that whole story came out, but it was not a misconduct. What the accuser did was more similar to leaking a sex tape. She basically humiliated him because he wasn't living up to her expectations, and then she pretended to be a victim of something she could have easily walked away from.
If the date is going badly, then you leave....don't go to a more private place and definitely don't go home with the person after. That's just dating 101.
She sounds like she's choking on tears with every word no matter what the topic of conversation is. Her messed up voice is probably a ratings stunt for the show.
Had it been a man of no stature, importance, or fame with what was alleged nothing would have happened at all. That's one good thing about being at the bottom.
Sensitive men who do have empathy as Aziz obviously does, need to be schooled on women who are screwed up and then blame it on everyone else. He did nothing wrong, SHE did!!!
Happen to me and I’m fearful my career is going to end before it even starts. I’m struggling to be optimistic and move forward :/ I’ve been forgiven too but I don’t want to be labeled something that I’m not especially when I’m against that kind of behavior and those people. I’m fearful of intimate settings with women now
I think (sometimes I do think - it's stronger than me) that perhaps that's what happens when a man has his back against a wall of sexual misconduct allegations : the guy might take the time to think about what happened and even question his own assumptions or the guy might clam up and add insult to injury by turning his material racier.
Disgusting. You can see the shake down happening here live on television. "Oh I hope now he can integrate this into his material and tell his other male friends about how to make other people(women) and making sure they are comfortable in that moment." They want control nothing else just control.
"What will be clearly encouraging, is if he finds a way to integrate this into his material and show that he has grown from this experience." Clearly this woman has not watched Ansarie's series "Master of None" in which there were several exapmples of him taking a strong stand against sexual misconduct and general creepiness. (Prior to this incident).
This is all BS!! So tired of men acting like they don’t know when they cross the line and with women that don’t say it in the moment but will say it to the media. Maybe both people should talk about their do’s and don’ts so both know the reality of the situation and stop assuming. This doesn’t apply to all sexual misconduct situations but in this type of situation. I’m so tired of these bs answers and press releases just to ensure they have a job or to receive pity.
There is NOTHING for him to feel guilty about... The woman just acted improperly making a sincere man look horrible... She was the perpetrator of the emotional assault on his person.... Look at how bad his confidence was shaken in himself, all cause she expected him to what? Read her mind...
Louis CK didn’t cave into these #MeToo nightmare people. I wish Asia didn’t. Can’t blame him though . Ha! They brought up Louie after I wrote this. Of course. 😶
Alright nothing can be known for sure but after reading the entire story, I dont see any issues with Aziz... She complains about not choosing the wine at the restaurant (Im sorry are you paying? No? Didnt think so. Oh no he didnt let you choose the place too? He must own you. And guys are supposed to make decisions on dates because we know girls dont make simple decisions) then she complains that they left before finishing the bottle? Lol so she was made she didnt get to drink more..but which they did when she consented to going to his apartment. They were making out..not him 'aggressively' kissing her..it takes two ppl to make out or fuck.. maybe he was just idk attracted to her and thought he was being passionate. Like seriously some ppl are passionate almost like in the movies and some ppl are timid gentle kissers who will not move their hands towards you or cant multi-task. Ive had gf's who put my hands on their breasts and tell me to grab their asses more while kissing but guess what I fucking learned what she liked and how to multitask. And Ive had gfs who dont know anything about sex and are quite shy gentle kissers so I adjusted because I couldnt be as passionate as with others. And she lets him eat her pussy out after having the 'brave courage' to say she doesnt want him to fuck her..she says he gestured for her to return the oral-favour which is a reasonable assumption like maybe he was gesturing because she didnt seem like she knew wtf she was doing. And the "fingers down the throat" thing seemed odd like you cannot put your fingers down someones throat, only inside their mouth but that just sounds a bit unbelievable anyway..but here is an idea, if a guy does something you dont like (maybe kissing your neck or too much tongue or fingering the wrong way, Idk how about fucking tell him!) Who puts fingers inside someones mouth? The whole story could be disected further but there doesnt seem like much of an issue yet alone enough evidence of this so called 'worset date ever.'
I don't understand how the confident independent devil turn into soft little mute creature that need special skills to understand because they can't express a simple no! WTF!
I'm very upset that comedy is being intercepted and politicized. I go to a comedy show to laugh, make jokes. Now comedians will be scared to make jokes on controversial topics
It's worrying that an unsubstantiated allegation is taken as fact nowadays!! This poor man's life is now destroyed just because some c*** felt uncomfortable! maybe she held a grudge because he brushed her off at first! Allegation : "a claim or assertion that someone has done something illegal or wrong, typically one made WITHOUT PROOF. " (oxford dictionary)
This Louis CK line separatef from the build-up of the joke is also really cheap, especially when it's "leaked audio" - of course every joke doesn't work (this one did obv, the crowd was laughing), he was testing it in front of a smaller crowd.
But they did. They believed everything the woman said to the police. And it is from that statement to the police that people decide that he did not do anything wrong. The woman did not say no. She just gave "non verbal ques", which could mean anything from "you're doing it wrong" to "I am a twitchy person during sex" to "I don't want to do it". She even performed oral sex during the encounter and he returned the favor. How could anyone possibly know she did not want to do it? She was later traumatized by the incident but that is not rape because sex that you regret afterwards is not rape. This is an unfortunate misunderstanding and for whatever reason she was afraid to say no. And he is being blamed basically because he could not read the woman's mind, because that is the only way he could know she did not really want to do it.
How about we stop expecting sex to be treated as a need to be freely gratified, and also a sacred act only ever to be given with permissions verbally expressly second by second. Pick one. You can’t have it both ways.
Aziz is a sweet guy and it comes through in all of his work. I don't understand why the woman involved had to go so public with her feelings, since he seems like an approachable person; her reaction seems over the top. However, given that she did accuse him publicly and nearly tank his career, his response showed maturity and genuine concern for others. I like the guy.
The thing with Louis is THATS ALWAYS BEEN HIS COMEDY!!! Yeah maybe he should of addressed his allegations. But the parkland bit taking it out of content makes him seem like a horrible person. Reporting that in that manner is in poor taste.
78% of #rapevictimsareliars Statistically speaking. Everyone knows it. It’s her fault for agreeing. She wanted to do it. She’s not dumb. She’s to blame for as well. We are all to blame for. Stop being pathetic we all know.
