Originally Posted by LeonalewisJfan:
“Jeremy has been stitched up & his reputation ruined, he was drunk & attracted to the girl, he acted probably like 50% of drunk guys would in that situation”
I keep seeing variations on this theme, "he was drunk", "he made a mistake", "he misread signals"...
Firstly, Chloe had a drink too but I don't see anyone leaping to defend her 'overreaction' on booze, which I suspect was a factor. Taking this one step further, Jeremy's drunken behaviour hurt another person. Chloe's behaviour hurt who? Your earlobes?
Secondly and more importantly, in my world, when a bloke misreads signals (or doesn't bother trying to read them at all), he moves into your personal space, puts his hands on your arse or round your waist, tells you you're hot or he fancies you...that kind of thing.
What he doesn't do is go straight into pervy voyeur mode and open my clothing to cop a look at my breasts, out of nowhere with no flirty preamble or invite. In fact, even a bloke who HASN'T misread signals, who I actually like in return, doesn't do that (not without dinner and a movie first

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because it's not normal behaviour. It's not even normal drunk behaviour.
I keep trying to see it from Jeremy's perspective because I felt sorry for him later and it isn't like he actually physically groped her. But it wasn't just what he did but his justification afterward. Him thinking that she wanted that kind of action simply by dint of being there with him and wearing a dressing gown (which was long, modest and wrapped tightly round her).....that's plain wrong. So I'm glad for his sake that he's had a harsh lesson now cos that kind of warped thinking when drunk could get him into a world of trouble in future.
The last part of your post about him just doing what 50% of blokes would do is probably quite insulting, certainly to the men I've known. Hands up fellas, who's ever done this without at least a kiss first?