What Happened on "Below Deck Down Under" This Week Was Terrifying in More Ways Than One.
And you better believe we're going to talk about it because what we saw play out was very important. We saw 2 sexual predators who totally lacked fear. Season 2 Episode 7
I just finished watching this week’s episode of Below Deck Down Under, and I can honestly say it was simultaneously one of the most upsetting and important pieces of reality television I’ve ever watched.
There are 2 sexual predators in this episode.
It starts with this FUQ, Luke, drunk, naked, and crawling in bed with an inebriated and slumbering Margot. He goes into her room uninvited. And then crawls into her bunk. Again, she is sleeping, drunk, and definitely never consented to him being in her room, much less to him being in her bed and/or touching her with his naked body. And there he is: naked and laying behind her with his arms around her. That, my friends, is a sexual predator.
Besides the obvious being terrifying, what’s even scarier is that he did that shit ON CAMERA. He completely and totally lacked fear or repercussions. And that is a very scary type of person. Also: being drunk is never a justification for doing something awful. Thank GAWD for production stepping in and attempting to swiftly diffuse the situation and advocating for Margot who literally could not advocate for herself.
Luke got an attitude and was pissed because production was blocking him from getting what he wanted. His frustration manifested by slamming the door to Margot’s cabin multiple times in the face of production. That was terrifying. That was him letting all of us know that he was on a mission to get what he wanted and he didn’t give a fuq who knew about it. Finally, they get Luke out of the cabin and he returns to his.
After hearing the commotion with production and seeing Luke walking down the hall naked, Aesha immediately goes into Margot’s bunk to make sure she is OK and to start gathering information as to whether or not she had consented to him being in her bunk, to which Margot replies, “No I was asleep. I did not invite that at all.” Then, my baby Aeasha, being the GIRL’S GIRL that she is, crawl’s into bed with Margot and comforts/protects her until she falls asleep.
Meanwhile Luke is throwing a fit and trying to revise history, telling Laura (who rushed into his cabin to comfort him. GROSS!! GAG!) He says to her, “I didn’t do anything. I was just sitting there. I had nothing to do with her.” EXCUSE ME, UGLY??
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