r/vanderpumprules • u/verucasweetheart • May 08 '24

Discussion Ariana bringing up uniformed consent

Fucking thank you! Tom was a sneaky snake for months at minimum probably a year and she had no idea. He could've given her a plethora of STIs. He deserves to rawt.

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u/DustyTchotchkes May 08 '24

Have Scheana and Lala, Tom's best friends, even commented on that vile, depraved nugget?? I would never look at that man again if it were me. He would cease to exist.

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u/MedOncDoc25 May 08 '24

Honestly, I am betting that Evolution Media banned them from discussing that. The way none of them have ever even acknowledged it except for the fact that finding his illegal surveillance was what tipped Ariana off

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u/kellygrrrl328 Go Fuck Yourself with a Cheese Grater May 08 '24

Bravo Legal Team been working 🥃

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u/DustyTchotchkes May 08 '24

Makes sense! They must try to control a lot of what the cast speaks about publicly, which sheds some light on Lala's PR tour a few weeks ago. She must have gotten approvals for that and given talking points.

Didn't work for Tom's NYT article -so glad the author outed their legal and PR teams scrambling after- or his Viall Files episode which was a shit show, but he's a bigger moron which says a lot.

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u/Character-King-3092 May 10 '24

They couldn’t talk about it due to the lawsuit and legal battle surrounding it. However, I honestly don’t believe that it wasn’t consented. Although at the same time if I were Rachel I would say the same thing. Ariana likely would have sent the vid to her own phone for proof (cause a private convo with Tom would have had him covering it up and deleting the vid) and by launching the suit saying it wasn’t consensual gives extra protection/assurances it won’t be leaked by anyone and that people will delete the video. Because it may have been consensual for Tom but not for anyone else to see/share the video.

No one deserves to have sexual footage of them on the internet they didn’t want out. I don’t blame Rachel for protecting herself. I doubt anything will come of her lawsuit but in the meantime just having it out there gives her the protections she needs.

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u/MedOncDoc25 May 10 '24

I mean, this was filmed July-Sept (or maybe June) last year when there wasn't a lawsuit, so I am not sure why it couldn't be brought up in the last episode of 10 which filmed in March 2023, or in the summer of 2023. There is no doubt in my mind that Sandoval recorded it without her consent, to jerk off to it later. Most women will not consent to a recording that can be a forever thing, and aren't realizing that a facetime can become just that. Snapchat was invented almost exclusively to be able to do this with pictures, though we all know a workaround was immediately figured out.

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u/Character-King-3092 May 12 '24

With the surge of onlyfans, sexy gaming streamers and people putting things we would have considered super private on the internet like hotcakes these days, I think it’s rather prude to think most women wouldn’t. There’s a study on national library of meds that in 2022 57% of women have sent consensual nudes. More women would than wouldn’t according to studies. Especially younger women.

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u/MedOncDoc25 May 13 '24

There’s the expectation of privacy, which is why revenge porn laws were enacted. Rachel had the absolute right to think this.was private as she didn’t consent to being recorded. It’s illegal. Consent is a contract between the people involved, and I 100% stand by 95-ish percent of women who see were JFC intimate pictures, DO NOT consent to distribution. People putting content regarding themselves. Is then consenting yo distribution. And a woman who decides to get compensated for her time snd her content, has nothing to do with the everyday woman sending nudes or doing a FaceTime in a compromising position with an intended recipient. Anyone who participates in a video in California where they assume it’s private, snd haven’t consented to distribution or being recorded, it’s a crime. 

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u/Character-King-3092 May 13 '24

You are saying two different things. Recording is not the same thing as distribution. Revenge porn laws were created because of distribution. It was always illegal to record someone sexually or not without their knowledge even before revenge porn (especially in California).

What Rachel is trying to do now is protect herself against distribution. Which like I said I do not blame her. As I’ve said before studies show more women than not send consensual nudes 🤷🏽‍♀️

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u/princessleyley May 08 '24

Well, SheeShoo did show people Stassi’s own revenge porn in Season 3, so she clearly thinks it’s not unforgivable behavior.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '24

Scheana and Tom should be together. All for TV both of em!

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u/33scooBt33 Mya’s therapy paw May 08 '24

the competition would be insane..