February 09, 2016
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…the witness”[a different woman]”whose name is protected by a publication ban, had sent Ghomeshi an email that included a bikini shot of herself. The email was sent in June 2004, about a year and a half after the witness alleges she was punched in the head by Ghomeshi at his Riverdale home. The witness testified she sent the pic to “bait” him in hopes of getting him to talk about the alleged assault.
A year after allegedly choking Lucy DeCoutere and slapping her in the face, Jian Ghomeshi stole her mic during a karaoke performance [at an industry confab] to sing Britney Spears” “Hit Me Baby One More Time.”
Note that DeCoutere”who along with being an actress is also a captain in the Canadian armed forces”did not, say, plonk Ghomeshi over the head with the mic or even toddle off in a tearful huff. Oh, and this incident occurred months after that time he allegedly slapped her around at his place, when:
Afterward, she said they sat on Ghomeshi’s couch and he played guitar; they kissed goodnight.
DeCoutere said she was “bewildered” by the encounter but didn”t want to leave so as not to anger Ghomeshi or seem rude.
She said the attack was not sexual in nature.
Except: The man is charged with sexual assault. And the “assault” part I get, and believe (as of this writing, at least).
But even by the non-vanilla definitions of “sexual” as codified by the slaphappy BDSM “community,” these encounters feel about as “sexual” as a freak fistfight on the set of The Lawrence Welk Show.
I guess I don”t understand young women today. Sure, I was one of those neurotic, boozy, desperate, artsy twentysomethings once, but for one thing, I”ve never attracted the Ghomeshis of this world anyhow.
Which means that, even at my screwed-up worst, my addled brain never felt obliged to cook up anything like this, which is my second-favorite bit of testimony so far:
I wanted Jian to call me so I could ask him why did he violently punch me in the head.
