I don't think it was about her attractiveness. She was probably one of the few women in his life to be "appreciative" or even just someone receptive of his attempts at... whatever. So for him, she already fell for him, since that rarely, if ever, happened in his life, to ever have a woman be that friendly towards him, even if it was just some DMs.
Yeah, any girl who gives him the slightest bit of attention will get his full crazy stalker baggage. Even if it is just treating him like a human being
He was fixated on her because she was in his area at the time. He lived in Salt Lake City, and she lived in Orem, which isn't too far from SLC. He thought they were going to meet, and in his mind meet=sex. Russ has the typical Niceguy mindset that if a girl is talking to you at all, that means she's interested in you sexually. That's why he almost immediately started pushing the boundaries Erika very clearly and firmly set at the start because he didn't believe she "just wanted to be friends." She clearly wanted to fuck him, otherwise why would she be talking to him in the first place? But that mean ol' Chad got in the way, and she had to go and have her own thoughts and desires instead of focusing on what Russ wanted, which is clearly what she was supposed to do, in Russ's broken mind.
It almost seems that Russhole uses an inner algorithm to determine if a woman's appearance is a 9 or a 10, rather than taking a human approach to physical attraction. That'd explain why he creeps on women that fit the generic Instathot aesthetic, along with those whom he perceives to be of the highest social status of all women. Hence his penchant for cheerleaders, singers, celebrities and models. Even if one of these women is objectively a 5 on a good day without makeup and/or Photoshop, his algorithm doesn't have the smarts to enough smarts to undo these filters.
He had to go and be a big shot, didn't he?
I think most of them are pretty hot, but some of them are almost too fake. The cheerleaders are typically pretty gorgeous, but some of the other thots are almost too fake looking.
Squirrel Girl is naturally very attractive, but she ran afoul of Russ because she dared to have a personality that's not focused exclusively on being hot. I can't remember if it was her who told him to fuck off or another woman, but after he told her she should drop the squirrel thing because "it took away from her hotness" she must have blocked him because he stopped commenting on her posts.
He has shit taste in literally everything in his life, why we thought he’d have good taste in women shows we haven’t stared into the void long enough, thank god.
It’s a little silly, I guess, but you have to admit it’s better than his usual “I’m horny and angry!” routine.
I think it’s less that he goes for women who are “bimbos” or otherwise questionable and more that his taste seems kind of indiscriminate. Most of the women he harasses where there isn’t a circumstantial element to it (like, he happens to be interacting with them in some other capacity before the harassment starts) look like they might pop up on Google Images if you searched for “hot babe.”
How you could look at that and come away thinking human being, is beyond me.
If you didn't know any better, you could just see some dude who has a disability and wants to find love with someone. Its a really deadly trap for any girl who is above a 4/10
I wouldn't be shocked if he showed up to wherever she was having her party and got told to leave. No proof this happened, but it would fit with what we know of him.
He not only thinks she SHOULD meet him for the five bucks, he thinks she's legally obligated to meet him. He doesn't understand if you give someone something unsolicited, it's a gift. You have no legal right to expect anything in return. What's even creepier is he acts like he has a relationship with these women, even though they've probably never interacted. It's a parasocial relationship, and he doesn't grasp the difference between real real relationships and parasocial connections.
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It's probably progress now. I hope we get another brilliant legal filing out of it, or at least a public acknowledgement he failed yet again. He truly doesn't grasp that Marathon was NEVER going to grant his demand to be on the show as that would destroy the show's reputation if they let some idiot with no talent on the show just because he sued.
I'm going to say 6 or 7 hours after the order for Arbitration happens, then shit lips starts whining on ig about it.
