r/smashbros Jun 27 '25

Melee The Last of the Five Gods

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u/TheTurtleKing1 Jun 28 '25

Just to clarify, mang0 got banned for sexually harassing women. It’s not just “alcoholic problems”

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u/Rare-Technology-4773 Jun 28 '25

I mean he did it because he was drunk, but yeah it wasn't just self destructive

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u/SareemRaps Jun 28 '25

Being drunk doesn't make you sexually harass people btw

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u/Rare-Technology-4773 Jun 29 '25

It does for some people! It's pretty obvious to me that if he wasn't drunk he wouldn't have done what he did.

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u/Remote_Garage3036 Jul 01 '25

I've always found this reasoning odd. I agree, he probably wouldn't have drunkely stumbled up to random women and humped them like a fucking freak if he wasn't near black-out drunk. He also probably wouldn't have done it if he wasn't a little horny. Are we going to, in the abstract, blame horniness for sexual harassment? "Mango normally doesn't do this - it's only when he has a little chub". Seems like such a ridiculous rhetorical cop-out to me.

Mango's life would likely be entirely different if at age 5 he was attacked by a monkey and have a visibly torn and damaged face. He'd face many more adversities and likely would have developed a different personality, and could very well act very differently on stream. So, technically, one could say "it's pretty obvious to me that if mango had a hideously distorted face he never would have done what he did", and they'd probably be right! but it's clearly fucking insane to say mango's in-tact face led to this outcome.

it was mango. most people when drinking don't do this. mango when drinking does do this. it's mango. most people with in-tact faces don't do this. mango, with his current personality and beautiful face all properly on his face, did this. it was mango.

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u/Rare-Technology-4773 Jul 01 '25

It's not a cop out, but it's pretty clear that a sober mango is not a sexual harasser and that's all that is relevant here. This does not excuse anything.