"Never without my permission" makes no sense
So let me get this straight, this 'perfect being' has no qualms about beating up people, pointing guns at them, destroying property, using violence instead of communication to solve problems and so on, without her victim's consent or permission, but someone putting their face close to hers requires a gun-wielding overreaction?
I mean, isn't the trope of kissing a sleeping beauty a very well-established story element in so many Disney movies that people love and think of as 'classics'? Isn't 'Prince Charming' always supposed to kiss the woman without her consent, while she's sleeping? Why does this movie suddenly see it as a problem?
Obviously I don't condone anyone kissing anyone without their consent or permission, but there's also the curious thing that women often do say 'no' while meaning yes, and I don't think there has been even one time in all this planet's history, where a man has asked for consent for intimate things like kissing and sex, and the woman has EXPLICITLY and clearly given her consent verbally.
Men often have to interpret consent, so if a woman says 'no' in a specific way, a man has to know it really means 'yes'. All this could be avoided if asking sex was normalized and women would stop playing hard to get and coy and all those mind games just so they wouldn't have to carry the heavy burden of 'responsibility'.
Women and responsibility are like oil and water, they never seem to quite mix.
This movie is one of those things that, just like Viva La Dirt League's recent skit, falls deep into the misandristic, old, humorless trope of 'man does something relatively innocent, woman overreacts and the crowd cheers'.
Why is pointing your lips at close range towards someone's face WORSE than TOUCHING an actual GUN to someone's forehead without their permission? The 'perfect being' doesn't have Corben's permission/consent to touch his forehead with a gun, and yet no one says anything.
I'd say, it's at least an equal situation, except that the gun can cause serious injury, brain damage, or kill Corben, while lips can only cause slight erogenic high that she may or may not decide is repulsive.
Women often say one thing, and yet dream of another. Women actually DO dream of the dreaded 'R'-thing we're always told not to do (as if 'telling' would change anything - most men would never do it anyway, but now they have to feel guilty about it), and female victims of that almost always clímax (they have orgzms).
Women often SAY things designed to sh1t-test the man, but are the exact opposite of what they WANT the man to do. This means the man has power and is above the woman and thus arousing. If the man takes the woman's word, like a human being, then the woman is not aroused by the man and considers him a wimp (or simp, friendzone guy, etc).
Knowing this weird psychology they don't seem to want to fight against (because it gives them power and is more exciting that way, I suppose), men are always expected to initiate, 'permission or no', so you can't REALLY blame Corben in this movie, although the movie underlines just 'how wrong it is to do the R-thing'.
All this becomes a very confusing a mess, especially considering a woman never really gives man 'permission', she just pretends that she doesn't want it so she doesn't have to be responsible, because it's man's job to pursue, or so they think. Yet, if the man does it wrong, they get punched or slapped or a gun to their dang forehead.
This is why this scene is the epitome of hypocrisy - if they at least realistically showed how hypocritical and responsibilty-avoidant women are when it comes to 'consent/permission/playing hard to get', it would balance it out a bit, but no, the same, tired cliché over and over.
I wish some day someone would be courageous enough to reverse the genders - woman says something about a man having a small D, and the man and his friend slap and punch the sh1t out of the woman. Have you ever seen that? Me, neither.
But how often do we see a man saying something semi-innocent, and the woman using physical violence against the man, without anyone seeing anything wrong it it?
This planet is hell for humans and those that want ACTUAL equality, and this kind of movie tropes make no sense. Just reverse the genders and see how stupid this is; a woman tries to give a man a gentle kiss while he's asleep, and the man suddenly awakes and puts a gun to the woman's head, and the woman profusely apologizes and everyone is shocked at what the woman tried to do.
Sound logical, normal and common? I don't think so, either.