What is wrong with our society today?

 What is wrong with our society today?

 Credit : Adelaide Tilney, MA Language & Culture, King's College London and Amit Kumar, Android Developer at Self-Employment (2016-present),LILA MILI

A teen girl tells an older man in power she has never been kissed. “I want it to be meaningful and am saving it for a real relationship,” she adds.

She is from a conservative family and the first kiss carries a lot of significance for her.

The man ignores it and puts the girl in an uncomfortable position by asking for a kiss. The girl, pressured, goes to kiss the cheek but the man turns his face last second to kiss her on the lip without her consent.

The girl, shocked, literally falls back to the ground. The man laughs.

Sorry, I mixed up genders.

This 19-year-old American Idol contestant, Benjamin Glaze, comes from a conservative family. He tells judges he has never had a kiss because he is saving it for the first meaningful relationship.

Benjamin Glaze actually has a girlfriend, but he doesn’t feel it’s a real enough relationship yet, and he has chosen to wait.

“I have never been in a relationship and I can’t kiss a girl without being in a relationship.”

That should’ve been the end of it, but Katy Perry calls him up for a kiss.

He is obviously uncomfortable. He hesitantly comes up.

“On the cheek?”

He uncomfortably kisses her on the cheek and she mocks him saying it was not a real kiss. She asks for another.

And as he goes up, she turns her face to kiss him on the lip after he has explicitly told her that he does not want to be kissed unless he is in a relationship.

Do other judges call her out? Hell no. They laugh and she cheers.

Recap:

The contestant has just been sexually assaulted. His boundaries were violated. His wishes were ignored. He was tricked into kissing when he explicitly said he wasn’t ready. His consent wasn’t taken.

And people laughed like it was a joke.

Double-standard is what’s wrong with our society today.