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When I saw this Katy Perry kiss on "American Idol," I said, "He should sue her."

I assume the contestants sign away their right to sue for various intrusions on their dignity, including sexual harassment, but I'd like to see them struggle to defend themselves. In a #MeToo world, this must be called sexual assault:



I'm glad to see the NYT covering this story and making it clear that the contestant Benjamin Glaze did not somehow, behind the scenes, agree in advance to be subjected to a scripted, faux-unwanted kiss. Glaze had never been kissed, but Perry invited him to give her a kiss on the cheek, and as he meekly complied, she rotated her head and gave him a smacking kiss on the lips:

”I was a tad bit uncomfortable,” Mr. Glaze said by phone this week, after the incident aired on the season premiere. His first kiss was a rite of passage he had been putting off with consideration. “I wanted to save it for my first relationship,” he said. “I wanted it to be special.”

“Would I have done it if she said, ‘Would you kiss me?’ No, I would have said no,” he said.

Well, she did ask him, but only, apparently, for a cheek kiss, which he, pressured, offered. He's using "kiss" there to mean a kiss on the lips — a sexy and not merely social kiss.

“I know a lot of guys would be like, ‘Heck yeah!’ But for me, I was raised in a conservative family and I was uncomfortable immediately. I wanted my first kiss to be special.”...

After he entered the studio, guitar slung over his shoulder and looking a bit star struck, he said he enjoyed his work as a cashier because it let him meet “cute girls.”

“Have you kissed a girl and liked it?” asked [judge Luke] Bryan, making a coy reference to Ms. Perry’s first hit single, “I Kissed A Girl.” Mr. Glaze said that he had not. “I have never been in a relationship and I can’t kiss a girl without being in a relationship.”

He clearly stated a principle that deserved respect and that, I would think, gives respect to women, the kind of respect #MeToo proponents would seem to want.

At that, Ms. Perry stood up. “Come here,” she said to Mr. Glaze. “Come here right now.”

But he does not have a relationship with Katy Perry, so she is ordering/tempting him to betray his own principle. She has power to make a decision he wants, so right before our eyes, we're seeing something like the Harvey Weinstein situation. If you don't like it, why don't you just leave? Glaze's response is something like the way many women reacted to Harvey: play along a little to humor him, and maintain your dignity by not giving too much:

Ms. Perry motioned for him to come over to the judges’ table and stuck her face toward him. “One on the cheek?” he said and she smiled. He quickly touched his face to her cheek. She asked for another kiss, complaining that he hadn’t even made the “smush sound.” As he moved toward her cheek again, Ms. Perry swung her face toward him and kissed him quickly on the lips. “Katy!” he yelled, as he stumbled backward. “You didn’t!” Ms. Perry raised her arms in victory.

Mr. Glaze then asked for a drink of water, delivered a lackluster audition and was kindly rejected by the judges.

Watch the video and compare the exultant Katy Perry is and the instigating Luke Bryan to Lionel Ritchie. Ritchie tries to buck up Glaze. "That's a major deal... You're first kiss was Katy Perry." That, of course, stomps on Glaze's principle: He wanted his first kiss to be someone he knew and cared about. Talking to the NYT, months after the incident (which was recorded in October), Glaze describes needing to go through a process of rationalization: It doesn't really count as his first kiss, because "It was lip contact versus a romantic situation with someone you care about." It depends on what the meaning of "kiss" is.

Ritchie, to my eye aware of the moral transgression, asks, sort of comically, "What has this show turned into?" Was he trying to connect with viewers who might disapprove — such as those who don't accept a double standard in sexual assault, those who believe in romantic love, sexual conservatives, and those who are rigorous about coercion and true consent? I don't know, but "American Idol" chooses what footage to include in the final edit, and they must have liked this. I'm sure they have their lawyers, and I'm guessing, now that I think about it, that they got full, explicit consent from Glaze before airing this clip. But that doesn't explain why they thought we would like it, and why — in #MeToo times — they'd promote their big star judge Katy Perry like this. How could they think we'd just love this and not feel that this decent young man had been violated?

He said he does not feel he was sexually harassed and is grateful to Ms. Perry for tweeting about him.

Did he sign an agreement not to disparage the show?

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