I didn't watch the whole video, so don't know if this was mentioned... but it made me remember in Revenge of the Nerds (1984 and one of my favorites, btw)... the part where the Nerds set up cameras in a girls' sorority to watch them doing all sorts of private things. The audience thought it quite playful & comical at the time.
Then, in real life, at my own alma mater (Rutgers U.) in 2010, a similar thing took place where one roommate set up a secret camera in a dorm room, and a tragic suicide was attributed to the video-spying which resulted in a major court case with no good outcomes for anyone involved.
Ironic how something depicted as so comical in a movie could end up being so calamitous and tragic in real life.
I remember reading a translation of an old epic English poem where the hero was advised by his mother that if he should see a beautiful woman along the road that he should basically rape her. No big deal. Old school epic poetry advice from a mother to a wandering hero. EDIT: Found it in The Medieval Myths by Norma Goodrich:
Originally Posted by Peredur, Son of York
“I’ll wait. Talk fast.”
“Go straight,” said she, “to the court of Arthur, where live the best, the most generous, and the most valiant of men. Whenever you see a church, say a Pater near it. If you see food and drink that you need and if no one is courteous enough or good enough to offer it, then help yourself. If you hear screams, go in their direction; there is no yelp more distinctive than that of a young woman. If you see a beautiful jewel, take that also and give it to somebody else. That way you will acquire a reputation. If you see a beautiful girl, make love to her. Even if she doesn’t want you, she will consider you more courteous and more powerful than as if you hadn’t seduced her.” P. 55
Fast forward a few centuries and we're watching sexual assault played off as harmless schoolboy pranks on flickering screens.
Body Double uses the peeper-creeper as the premise, with our protag (who looks like Bill Maher's thespian sibling) being lured in with a telescope fixed on a woman who, for no apparent reason, does a strip tease every night in the privacy of her own home.
Films offer us a little transgression, a little fun (Han did, after all, shoot first, that lovable scoundrel), but they do in a fantasy which can normalize. It's strange, people don't go on shooting sprees after watching The Terminator, but kids will lay down in the middle of the road when they see it in a film like
The Program. People have enough sense not to try to fly like Superman, but they will copy a
Jackass.
It makes you cringe when you think of the jokey-date-rapey gags in films like
Sixteen Candles and
Revenge of the Nerds.