Patrice O'Neals perspective was mostly shaped by being accused of raping a white girl in Highschool.I was actually a fan of Patrice ONeal when I was a kid (Comedy Central exposed me to a lot), but, while the stuff he said wasn’t really far off, I think some guys don’t really take into account the perspective he was speaking from.
This wasn’t some average weight, attractive dude who was out interacting with women. I’m sure he was a bit jaded because the quality of women he had access to was completely different once he was successful.
It’s the same thing that happens when “average” women “glow up” and are exposed to a different caliber of man/treatment.
Some people naturally attracted these same people/attention, so they have a less jaded perspective.
E.g. someone like Bey would’ve attracted successful guys as a regular woman or celeb.
Someone like Damson Idris would’ve been getting girls celeb or not
For comics to truly realize themselves as performers, they must learn to traffic in their vulnerabilities, but the stakes were particularly high for Patrice. By the time he was 17, he had been convicted of a sex crime against a white woman—a stigma that so scarred him that he didn’t discuss it publicly for decades. According to his story, he and some friends met up with two 15-year-old girls and they ended up having sex together. The boys bragged about the encounter, and another boy used the gossip to blackmail the white girl for a blow job. As rumors spread, the girl started saying she’d been raped—first by her blackmailer, then by the original group. O’Neal and his best friend, the only two who admitted having sex, were convicted of statutory rape, for which they served 60 days in an assessment center that summer.
Why Comedians Were Afraid of Patrice O’Neal -- New York Magazine - Nymag