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SensitiveBeef on Netflix
I was going to watch it, but then I read the male leads OWN WORDS from a podcast where he describes raping a masseuse. He says now “it wasn’t real” and “he was just pushing the line on being shocking” or whatever other lame reason. There was never a criminal complaint - I can’t help but feel this is potentially an immigrant woman who wouldn’t have filed a complaint and would not have heard about a random podcast. But I don’t think I can watch it now.
ETA he’s not the lead (Steven Yeun) but he’s a secondary character and the show has used a lot of his art.
It's dangerous and it's super self-destructive. I'm at a place and there's potential for a lawsuit . . . and she has given me no signs that she's into me or that this is appropriate behavior. In my head I go, Do you care if I jerk off right now? and it sounds so creepy in my head that I go, I can't say that out loud . . . So I go back to the chill method of you never ask first, you just do it, get in trouble and then pay the price later.
Not one word -- not even a single thought -- about how this might have affected her. He's just concerned about how "self-destructive" it is and how it could lead to a lawsuit (awwww) and how he's just gonna "get in trouble" and deal later (except what trouble? I see no evidence that he ever suffered for it and probably won't now, either).
He gives not one shit about the consequences she's facing. She's an NPC to him -- just an object that's standing between him and what he wants. This vile, horrible, awful, evil rapist.
And his cohost immediately calls him a rapist and he deflects but doesn’t say it was just a story or fantasy - it takes another month for him to say that! The way it’s described - I don’t think it’s just a story.
He's not the lead.
Sorry! You’re correct - Steven Yeun is the lead male, this actor plays a secondary character and they use a lot of his art as bumpers. I’ll update my post.
Please note this is quite graphic https://www.salon.com/2023/04/13/beef-controversy-david-choe/
Even if I believed that it hadn't actually happened, he is still an asshole. Good guys don't make up.stories about raping a woman for "shock value".
That was way worse than I was expecting and what I was expecting was bad enough. That poor woman. I hope she sues him into oblivion now that he's publicly admitted it. Sick and depraved.
The one silver lining to this story is that he was dumb enough to brag about this on a podcast. So the victim already has a confession
This is actually a podcast released in 2014!! I am a bit shocked he can get hired after admitting this.
I'm not :(
I'm not :(
Yeah. The only shocking thing is if he actually faces any consequences at all
I started watching it, but everyone was so unhappy and angry and unprincipled, I couldn't enjoy it.
Oh thats awful I was planning to start that tonight. I thought you meant Steven Yeun who seems like a good guy and is an excellent actor. However don't think I can watch this show now, it should fail and netflix should know why.
Wow. That was worse than I expected but it's compounded by his attitude of "I'm the real victim here." What a tool.
Also shocking--Salon is still around?
Glad I saw this before watching the movie and supporting it with my time and attention.
This story just really illustrates how men delude themselves into thinking that they are 'good guys'. He straight up describes raping a massage therapist and yet still claims he's not a rapist and it sucks that he's being called one.
WTF is wrong with men?
Even on the podcast itself, someone explicitly tells him "you raped her."
And apparently Bobby Lee was supposed to be in a new episodes of the show who ALSO has a "I raped a girl, ha ha just kidding" story he once told on a podcast.
It infuriates me so much that men, particularly male comedians, freak out about "false allegations", but then have the hubris to go on a podcast they KNOW is getting released to the public and will tell a full on story detailing the assault, then expect people to buy the line that it was "just a joke."
He also says “She's definitely not into it, but she's not stopping it either.” after she’s moved away from him twice and told him no at least once immediately after that sentence verbally.