This was an appalling thing for them to say, let alone for you to try to fathom. No one deserves to be SA’d, so how can there be a metric for being “good enough” for it?
On that line of thinking though, I have to wonder if this statement is some kind of weird projection or coping mechanism. Maybe this person experienced SA and was working through very complex emotions resulting in a warped rationalization that they were “good enough” to be victimized in that way. A twisted attempt at recapturing the power they may have lost with misplaced “pride” in someone wanting to SA them.
I don’t know though, definitely conjecture on my part, but regardless of how they came upon these beliefs, they had no right to project that onto you. Good to hear they’re an ex-friend.
There’s definitely a weird sped-up “twitch” moment that occurs around 20 seconds in. I didn’t detect it elsewhere after watching most of it (without sound) but at the very least there seems to be some smoothing-type postprocessing going on.
But does he really keep his hands that still for such long periods? Haven’t paid much attention to that aspect of “serious” press releases but that stands out to me, even if it’s a teleprompter job and he’s trying to keep from accordiflailing.