Ask A Genius 1112: Male Abusers Styled American Fantasy Horror
Author(s): Rick Rosner and Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Ask A Genius
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2024/09/28
Scott Douglas Jacobsen What else can we talk about?
Rick Rosner: We could talk about P. Diddy.
Jacobsen: Okay. I’ll keep my AirPods in and lie down.
Rosner: But let’s make this the last topic since you still seem exhausted.
Jacobsen: Yeah, I’m not as bad as I was, but still tired. So, P. Diddy is in jail awaiting trial.
Rosner: No bail for him. What he did was horrible, and it’s well-substantiated—something that went on for decades. It wasn’t just one thing; there was sexual and other violence, coercion, and more.
Jacobsen:That’s insane.
Rosner: Yeah, he had an empire of evil for over 20 years, facilitated by the people around him. That happens with American celebrities, but also with world celebrities and politicians.
Rosner: Right, like Uday and Qusay Hussein—they were involved in sex, murder, and torture.
Jacobsen: Exactly. So, if you take a step back and look at American scandals, there’s a pattern. Think about P. Diddy, R. Kelly, Harvey Weinstein, and all the Hollywood predators.
Rosner: And of course, Trump.
Jacobsen: That American lawyer who got caught with his shirt off or whatever—what’s his name?
Rosner: Anthony Weiner.
Jacobsen: Yes, him. What do you make of this from a lay perspective? If you were to take a non-expert opinion on these people, especially in a place stereotyped as a narcissistic hotspot like Hollywood and LA, do you think a lot of them probably have personality disorders that lead them to not care about others?
Rosner: Yeah, sure. Most people don’t have the kind of agency that celebrities do—the ability to act on their desires without much restriction. Celebrities have more freedom to follow up on their impulses and wants, whereas most people are more constrained by social or financial limitations.
I’m sure with someone like Weiner, and like most of these people, it’s not what they originally desired. They get carried along into creepier and creepier behavior because they can. Elvis had a similar support structure as other celebrities who got into questionable stuff, but the things Elvis did were less creepy than what Diddy, R. Kelly, Weinstein, or Trump got up to. Elvis was basically a nice guy, not insane. However, his behavior became erratic—like the time he shot a TV. Much of this can be attributed to the enablers around him who didn’t set boundaries. He also had a preference for younger girlfriends, which, at times, crossed into creepiness.
When Elvis met Priscilla, she was 14. But he mostly had relationships with adult women. He had a “thing” for what he considered “good girls”—women who wore white underwear, which he associated with purity.
Apparently, once he had sex with someone, they were no longer seen as a “good girl,” and he tended to lose interest. Though, honestly, a lot of men with access to unlimited partners experience something similar, so it might not be unique to him.
Yeah, that could be exaggerated or even a myth. But you see the same kind of enablement with people like Michael Jackson, who was a pedophile. If he hadn’t been so enabled by the people around him, would he have acted on those urges? He was married two or three times—once to Lisa Marie Presley and to the mother of his children, though that situation was strange.
If Jackson hadn’t been a celebrity, would he have been an active pedophile? Or would he have even developed those tendencies in the first place? It’s possible, but who knows how much was nature versus the enabling structure of his fame.
Rick Rosner, American Comedy Writer, www.rickrosner.org
Scott Douglas Jacobsen, Independent Journalist, www.in-sightpublishing.com
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