[rizwan]

In the context of sales, you can have a conversation about perseverance and not taking no for an answer. However:

> At the end of that example, Brandon laughed and said, “I was about to say something.” He paused, and then went on to say, “No doesn’t necessarily mean no.”

Brandon _changed_ the context into something offensive and then made the joke. This was an attempt at rape joke. He even prepped the audience for it by laughing and saying, "I wasn't going to say this, but..."

[orcasauce]

This is the crucial detail here. In a vacuum this is innocuous, but Beck specifically went and gave a nod to the context he wanted you to see it in, and that context was rape.