My coworker was telling me how well Jerry Maguire stands up today and I forced myself to remember the major beats of that piece of shit:
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Big company bad and evil; small start up good and pure.
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Being principled always pays off in the end.
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Everyone can make it if they try hard, believe in themselves, and believe in each other.
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We can have perfect interpersonal relations if we just learn to balance work and life appropriately, and it’s up to us to accept that challenge.
Fuck this movie. More importantly fuck people who like this movie. Jerry would have turned out just like his old firm buddies (even if the major plot points largely stay the same). Everyone in this movie is actively trying to exploit each other in the beginning. And even though it’s totally inconsequential to how bad these people are in their shitty lives, if you ask me the most unbelievable part is when Jerry and Bridget Jones get back together at the end.
Not buying it.
Tell me about the shitty liberal movies that are renting space in your head.
that’s not what i meant, jackass. i meant you could spy on somebody in an undetectable way and that finding where that’s harmful to the victim (or “victim”, i guess) is a lot harder than with noticed surveillance.
i think it’s wrong and it’s definitely against the norms of any society i’d want to live in but I struggle to articulate why from first principles.
The problem with your whole thing is comparing a sex crime to a minor theft from a corporation.
no, the comparison is between the logic. not the crimes. it doesn’t need to be creepshots it could be a non-sexual spying.
my bodily autonomy has nothing to do with somebody in the high-rise six blocks away having a telescope that could see into my window or a government satellite seeing into an open-top beach shower.
undetectable crimes need a different explanation for how they cause harm
