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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One thing to consider, if Ravi had taped him with a woman, Tyler might have felt more power in dealing with Ravi. He would have been able to cuss Ravi out publicly for the intrusion, calling him a peeping tom pervert, which many people could relate to and hence ostracize Ravi. But because Tyler was gay, he did not feel comfortable confronting Ravi since it would have further exposed Tyler's lifestyle. So in a way, Ravi had Tyler cornered, because of the homosexuality. This is where it is unfair. [/quote]

Good point.  But the truth is (based on the NYer article anyway) that the power dynamic between the two roommates was completely skewed even without the gay factor.  Ravi was rich, confident, popular, and outgoing, and Tyler was working-class, shy, awkward, and depressed. In this particular case I don't know if Tyler would have been any more likely to call Ravi out if Tyler had been with a woman. Ravi actually seemed to scorn Tyler much more for being poor and uncool than for being gay.  And yet, I do think that in some subtle way the fact that Tyler was gay made Ravi feel that much more permitted to invade his privacy.  But still, I kind of think Ravi would have done the same thing if Tyler had been with, say, an unattractive or obese girl. Somehow Ravi found a way to look at Tyler as a non-person, like some kind of zoo animal that wouldn't even notice Ravi's utter contempt for him. The irony, of course, is that Tyler was the white Italian-American kid (very much the norm in north Jersey) from a very upper-middle-class town and Ravi was the first generation immigrant with a foreign-sounding name and brown skin.  I wonder if that had anything to do with Ravi's desperate desire to fit in and his desperate fear of being associated with someone outside of the mainstream social circle.  I have such mixed feelings about all of this. [/quote]

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