Tucker Max, lothario (and the women who love him)

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Tucker Max is an asshole, and proud of it.**

I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell, a movie based on his bestselling book of the same name, is currently in theaters.

When Tucker Max was a classmate of mine, I didn’t know him, but he had a reputation for being good-looking, charismatic, outrageous, and a pig. I’m not surprised that he’s succeeded in turning his tales of drunken, misogynistic debauchery into a lucrative business.

Tucker plays to the dark side of fratboy culture and the lecherous bachelor party fantasy, a genre now called “fratire.” On his website, his stories of adventure and sexual conquest are replete with binge drinking, cruel insults, burping, vomit, poo, urination, and the police (you don’t want to know, really). He openly degrades women, rating them on a scale that ranges from “wildebeast” to “common-stock pig” to “super hottie.” Tucker even admits that he tries to get women drunk so that they won’t be able to consent to sex. Not surprisingly, women’s groups at several universities have accused him of promoting a culture of rape.

So what? Well, Tucker Max has female fans. Lots of them. Most of whom are college-aged.

Is this simply a case of women liking the “bad boy”?

Is Tucker Max’s popularity with women a product of GenY sexual politics, as suggested by the Washington Post?

A college-aged woman who claims to have slept with Tucker Max has provided her own tell-all, “I Slept With Tucker Max, the Internet’s Biggest Asshat.” It doesn’t sound like she was looking for validation, but it doesn’t sound like she found the experience to be liberating, either.

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Female here. I discovered Tucker’s website when I was in college, I think in 2004? Thought some of his stories were pretty funny but I also thought “thank god I don’t know this dude and don’t have to be around him because I would punch him in the balls.” Because he is an asshole of the highest order. A real dick, douchebag, fuckface, jerk, every bad word you can think of. The older I get though, the more I think “asshole” than “funny” when I read anything of his. He is just a mean person and while I am also kind of mean, I am not anywhere in his league and his stories just make me feel bad for his “victims” even when they are stupid.

He’s also kinda ugly. I know a LOT of way more attractive males that have fun and get laid without being so cruel and absurd.

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Shit writer, not very pretty and seems to be growing tired of his own shtick. Here’s hoping he fades away forever, or at least until he does a sad reality show and gets arrested for sexual assault, whichever fate delivers first.

For anyone wondering whether they should check him out, this is one of his gems

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I haven’t read that much of Tucker Max’s writing and what I have read of it didn’t really strike me as that funny, but I have to say I find his whole persona to be quite interesting. He’s basically famous for being himself, which I think is saying a lot. There are a lot of guys like Tucker Max out there but he is unique in his ability to promote himself as a form of entertainment. Most guys who have groupies have groupies because of what they do; because they’re rock stars, athletes, or whatever. But Tucker Max isn’t a rock star, he’s not an actor; he’s only a “comedian” insomuch as that he writes comical things on a website - he doesn’t do a standup act or anything. His degree of celebrity is a very rare and strange sort; he’s managed to become “the cool guy” on a grand scale, and that’s why he’s famous and gets laid.

I have to say I respect him a lot for being able to market himself this way.

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As previously stated, he’s a crummy writer. I started to read a story about him having a breathalyzer. I stopped reading, because it wasn’t interesting, and it wasn’t funny. I have friends, and know people that are boastful like that. They also get drunk to the point where they black out, and if they were as drunk as he says he is, would have a hard time remembering details of their “exploits”.

If not for Gawker, I wouldn’t know about him. That I know about him should be a bad thing, but since I am aware of him it makes it easier to assess people when they say they think he’s funny.

Since the OP had a link to his website, I followed it to make sure I gave him a fair chance. I read the hockey story. Now, in this age of everything having photographic documentation, I would like to see some evidence that this actually happened. Other than him spending an evening getting drunk, it seems unlikely. James Frey got raked over the coals for being a liar (though he got a book deal anyway). As a society we have to stop rewarding this type of thing.

I’m betting all of his stories are the same premise, where he’s always the coolest guy in the room, standing up to whatever the frat crowd has decided they don’t like (in this particular story, it’s a “crackhead” that happens to be the only scalper in the lot? really? and a too cool for school indie, law school grad). He’s Larry The Cable Guy for frat boys.

I’m a guy, but he doesn’t strike me as good looking, handsome, or anything like that. (If someone told me he was, it would be an Arrested Development-esque, Ann response: Him?) I’ve heard him talk, and he has some type of speech impediment (a lisp?). I’m not making a comment on people who have speech impediments; I know it’s just luck of the draw on something like that. We all have our own imperfections, but when someone has one that is more apparent than someone else’s, one shouldn’t be such a jerk (unless they’re trying to compensate for something).

I don’t find his persona interesting. It isn’t original. He’s doing the same thing others (e.g. Paris Hilton) have done, where they get to a level where they’re famous for being famous. He took a page out of Rove’s playbook, where he says something loud enough, and often enough, eventually people just start to believe it (regardless of its truth).

This is part of wrong with our society. Culture is what it is; it goes off in a direction for no good reason. It doesn’t mean it’s the right direction. He is a bad guy. As much disdain I have for executive in companies that provide creative content (and their lack of taste), at least they could provide a buffer, and keep this guy out of the public conscious. The internet has more positives than negatives, but that just anyone can be a “celebrity” now is one of the worst things about the internet.

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dude his story “Tucker tried buttsex, hilarity does not ensue” is one of the funniest things I have ever read in my life, straight up there with McManus talking about the “Pack Flip” I seriously cried while reading that shit.
but yeah hes a real Douchenozzle.

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Isn’t he over 30 now? When does that act start to be just a little pathetic?

Was he pitching or catching?

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“Tucker tried buttsex” was hilarious - it’s the one that got me to buy the book. He was pitching. That is the one with the video camera, correct?

Yes, it is getting pathetic as he gets older but I am looking forward to whether his views on women over a certain age will change as he ages. I’m looking forward to watching the little guy grow up.

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Grown up, he’s gonna be a sad-ass mofo.

I’d say he’s one already, but he’s money right now, and he’s got access to publicity, which trumps everything. Money and publicity will get you access to 4 out of 5 vaginas owned by ninnies.

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My buddy gave me “I hope They Serve Beer in Hell” as a going away present a couple of years ago and I laughed the whole way through it. Most of they guys my age think the stories are hilarious and every time someone mentions reading the book there is always at least a 20 minute conversation about favorite stories.

I’d go see his move since I’m sure it’ll make me laugh but it isn’t playing any where around me. Yeah, he’s an asshole but it’s not like he hides it I think any women that sleeps with him knows exactly what she is going to get. I know several guys like him, and have been accused of being one myself which is why I was given the book, and most of them have settled down and are married now.

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He’s one razor-thin notch above Joe Francis in my book.

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I think that comparison is unfair. Tucker Max has genuine credibility as a raconteur, making himself a part of the story in a tradition of diarists going back as far as Sir James Boswell, whose “London Journal” was basically the 18th-century version of Tucker Max. Also, Tucker Max does not bombard the public with advertisements for a stupid product (the Girls Gone Wild videos).

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Fair enough. I should have said that if I had to choose between six hours in a car with Tucker Max and six hours in a car with Joe Francis, I’d choose Tucker Max but I’d have to think about it.

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I think that some of his stories are interesting, even funny, but mostly the ones that don’t revolve around women, like “The Night We Almost Died” and I think the “Sushi Pants Story” (the one with the recreational breathalyzer). Then there was the one where a girl casually cheats on her boyfriend with him, and it dawns on him that his past girlfriends likely casually cheated on him, and he freaks out.

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Is “Tucker Tried Buttsex” where he has his friend hide in the closet while an unfortunate woman and he foul the bedroom beyond all recognition?

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Yes.

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I’d just as soon walk than spend any time with either of those schmucks. Ugh.

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I’ve never heard of this guy before, but he apparently also has male fans. Lots of them. Most of whom are college-aged. Why aren’t you concerned about that?

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Because women are degraded and treated like objects in his stories and men are not.

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Hey, the women who get involved with him know what they’re getting into. Don’t try to act like Tucker Max is the big bad wolf taking advantage of poor innocent females. They want to sleep with him. I don’t want to hear people trying to slam Max for enjoying his life.