Last week Channing Tatum sat down withCosmopolitan editor in chief Joanna Coles to chat about some light topics like sex, feminism, porn, rape culture, and theridiculouslyshort sentence Brock Turner received after being convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman on the Stanford Campus.
This was all done on , and let’s just say that if there was ever any doubt before that he’s more than a pretty face, he wiped that away with his articulate and spot-on commentary regarding real issues.
He wasn’t afraid to dive right in.
“I think it’s tough. I think that rape culture is a very real thing,” he said. “It’s a horrible, horrible idea to let someone off because of possibly what they’re gonna be capable of doing. Because if you start doing that, where do you end? Where does that stop? Where does that line actually quit? I don’t think it’s right.”
And about that sentencing for Brock Turner based on that “potential” disguised as privilege?
“I just couldn’t believe it,” he said. “That is like if you killed someone, if you got caught red-handed murdering someone, and then just because you went to a nice school and you were a good swimmer, you somehow get a lesser sentence than what you would’ve for cold-blooded murder.I mean, that just doesn’t make any sense,” .
No, no it doesn’t, and he offered up some suggestions.
“I think we need to use education and we have to be comfortable talking about sex,” he said.
“Look Im uncomfortable talking about it and Im saying we should be comfortable talking about it…How do we actually come up with a plan to be able to communicate about sex and what do we need from each other and what are the lines and how do you even know where the lines are if youre not strong enough to say, okay, Im not comfortable with this anymore…The only way to get to what you want is communication.”
And when a woman in the audience asked him his definition of feminism in three words, he replied, “I can do it in one. Equality.”
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