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I read this entire interview with my jaw hanging open to be honest. Utterly utterly despicable

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[frelling_tralk]

I just love how they are being called out on twitter for it BIGTIME, and an article has already been written in response to that interview

http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2011/05/gossip-girl-is-chuck-bass-abusive-ep-says-no-we-beg-to-differ.html is pure win

[frelling_tralk]

Heh me too, I was inspired to dig out my twitter account for the first time in a while #saveblairFROMchuck

And a lot of the media has actually been pretty positive towards Dan and Blair, so I'm interested in the response (and the ratings...) when the show start pushing Blar back towards Chuck yet again

[paulingui]

I can't believe it.

I stop watching GG cause there was so much craziness and I promise myself I would only watch again if there was going to be something between Dan/Blair, but neither that helped cause I just can't :/

[frelling_tralk]

Idk I was really optimistic for Dair, and I thought the writers had pretty much destroyed their ~endgame~ for Chuck and Blair with the latest episode ending in him forcing himself on her, but the fact that a writers interview turns it into being all about Chuck's pain and how he would never hurt Blair??? I guess I must have imagined the storyline when Chuck sexually humiliated Blair into selling herself for his hotel and she broke down in front of him!!! Or you know the beginning of this season when he vowed to destory Blair and take everything away from her

The relationship has been abusive for a looong time now, last episode was just the final straw and it's an insult for the writer to focus on the cut was unintentional and "dainty" and Blair doesn't see it as abuse so it's all good. Putting aside that whole assault, the way that Chuck has emotionally abused and degraded Blair for so long now is abusive on its own

[paulingui]

I use to like Chuck & Blair, til last season and the exact moment you just wrote about it.

Cause let's face it, who could actually try to pimp her girlfriend to his uncle!!!?

Then as you said, his mission was destroy her, destroy her dreams, everything that she wanted. And now he was telling her that she was "his"?

And writers are actually saying he will never hurt her? I've just saw thir las scene and throw a girl to the couch and just force her, for me it's hurt someone.

But he has done it from a long time, I hope this it's the last season of GG.

[frelling_tralk]

I used to ship Chair too, and then this season it really felt like they were intentionally shining a light about what was fucked-up about them all along in order to lead in to the set-up for Dair. The scene of Dan holding a distressed Blair's hand as "I will never let you down" plays is what first made me really start shipping them

But then you read the interviews with the writers singing about Blair was not afraid in that scene with Chuck and hey how about that scene of Chair on chairs, and it's just like wtf what show was I watching. Leighton played that moment as terrified, she was ducking from his fist??? How it was supposed to be about her being afraid FOR Chuck just makes no sense with what was portrayed on-screen

[mecurtin]

Wow. I mean, WOW. The zap2it post lays out even more background and makes it so, so much clearer.

OK, here's my question:

Josh Safran is clearly, *empirically*, a man who does not recognize rape when he sees it.

Do you think he is a rapist? My guess, as a pure outsider to the fandom, is "he doesn't think so."

But if he isn't, I would bet real money that some guy he's close to is. Safran thinks like an abuser, and either he is one or he's in the habit of talking and spending time with someone who is.

[frelling_tralk]

It's not even just the male writers, there was very clearly a scene of Chuck forcing himself on a struggling 14 year old girl and her older brother had to pull him off her. And the female showrunner then came out with "in fairness, Chuck was an attempted kissing bandit"

[mecurtin]

"kissing bandit".

WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK?!?!?

So either this supports my mean, nasty theory that Hollywood sexual culture is a cross between that depicted in "Mad Men" and street prostitution, or Safran is a rapist. Or maybe he just *admires* them.

[frelling_tralk]

He certainly seems to have no problems with glorifying Chuck, and it's even more disturbing that the women interviewing him is coming out with comments like

"the consequence of that fight was Blair had the most perfect, beautiful, dainty injury"

I mean wtf is that supposed to even mean when you are talking about a scene of someone smashing glass in a drunken rage??? The romanticizing of abuse in that whole interview is some of the sickest stuff I have read in a while

[meganlynn09]

I saw a clip on ONTD of the scene and...I don't see any room to defend that. WTH? I don't watch Gossip Girl, but is Chuck normally like that?

[frelling_tralk]

He's having a ~downward spiral~ at the moment so this is more of a low point, but he has a lot of them. For a start there's this scene http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik9am60q6hM&feature=related which says a lot about his attiude to women :/

I used to ship them tbh, but as a fun power couple. They reminded me a little bit of Kathryn and Sebastian from Cruel Intentions (one of my secret fav ships!), but the way that Chuck treats Blair has just become so degrading in the last two seasons

[super_robyn]

Oh my god. I don't watch the show, but I went search for the video and watched it and just... wow. "He punches the glass because he has rage." Um... YOU THINK?! He's raging, telling her she's only his, manhandling her to the couch, forcing himself on her, and then becomes so angry that he lashes out and punches a window. He could have just as easily hit her and truthfully, I was expecting him to with the way he was talking/acting toward her. He hurt her, physically and emotionally... and that guy wants to DEFEND that? WTF. She looked terrified to me.

[frelling_tralk]

I KNOW, RIGHT!! And the writer wants to play it as "I think it's very clear that Blair is not afraid in those moments, for herself...Leighton and I were very clear about that." That's the complete opposite of what I was watching, and the fact that Blair has to duck suggests to me that he would have punched her in the face if she hadn't of got out of the way in time

telling her she's only his

And he's always talking about Blair like she's his property, it's quite disgusting. But hey apparently it's all good because he has ~rage and we all know that "it is not abuse when it's the two of them"

[paulingui]

Very OT but

YOUR ICOOOOOON! :D

[frelling_tralk]

Those two are so cute, I really hope they become a couple next season :D