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- Feb 27, 2020
Why does Rusty always want to take women to dinner—I can’t imagine that watching him chew is erotic. He might have more luck suggesting some other activity for dates—movie theaters are dark, for example.
If you'll let me get into my armchair for a moment: the same reason all his major crushes have been very stereotypically attractive white women who are also world famous celebrities. Russell was probably bullied a little as a kid and never managed to get a personality that anyone would want to endure. He very desperately wants validation from society, that's why he's said he wants to work in the film or music industries, the people in those industries are on a very high rung on the social ladder. If he can get the acceptance of the people in those fields or enter those fields himself, he can vicariously convince himself of his own societal worth because the areas in life that society values have accepted him.
Don't forget he tried wearing a suit and bringing flowers to a hooker, thinking that he could 'woo' them. Russell has never had a woman legitimately want him, so his ultimate fantasy is to be wanted intensely, so intensely that a stripper will consider him a gentleman and sleep with him and a hooker will be charmed by her date so she'll sleep with him off the clock.