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I hate this trope (even when it works), because it makes life easier for rapists who look like angels and unnecessarily tougher for decent guys who are uh... visually unfortunate.
There are pretty sex offenders and ugly ones in every generation. Since US society used sexuality as a device of control the way dangerous cults do, we produce a lot kids who think human beings only have sex through coercion or opportunistic vulnerability (e.g. drunk girls at parties.)
So it makes for a lot of potential sex offenders.
Maybe some day we'll toss abstinence only sex ed into a blast furnace and start teaching kids about consent.
But then we'll realize that click-wrapped TOS on our devices and hardware are bad-faith contracts we're coerced to agree to. And that just wouldn't do for our shadowy capitalist masters.
Most sex predator tells are avoidable stylistic choices. Nobody's forcing Bannon to do his hair like that.
Three of them are boomers who argued that spousal rape is not a crime (a controvery in the 1970s, when NAMBLA was active and child marriage wasn't given a second thought) and the other one is trying super hard to be literal Himmler (though he's earning enough Heydrich points to break the machine).
Observe that this very same demographic is still trying to hold onto power as they lose their faculties.