re: actor michael weatherly gets #meetoo'd

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I’ve been around a pretty wild group of people most of my life, and there isn’t one women in my life that would be ok with me joking that I was going to rape them. Now think about this situation where it’s just some dude she works with joking about raping her.

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That’s not how it went down. Context matters!

The script had that built in as a joke. Her character was confronting him outside of his stake-out van and he was supposed to say “would you like to step into my windowless white van” which was the script itself jokingly acknowledging how creepy everyone thinks those things are. Only, Weatherly, taking the joke up a notch, said the line as “would you like to step into my rape van.”

My own wife calls them rape vans and child molester vans. It’s a pretty common term.