Lee Siegel perv update

Saucepan lid reflection (perv style?), originally uploaded by Steffe.

The shorter Lee Siegel: I didn't rape the 16-year-old Uma Thurman, I blame myself.

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[togolosh]

Apropos of nothing, I was just listening to a seminar by Sam Harris on what makes some religions lethal and immediately thought of this blog (not just Lindsay, but the commenteriat as well). I figured y'all might be interested: it's here, about halfway down, the last seminar of 2005, titled "The view from the end of the World." There are some other really good ones on that page as well.

[John Lucid]

Maybe Mr. Siegel should learn to shut his piehole when he's behind. This latest revelation about his prurient shame in not fucking a minor might help drive that lesson home.

By Siegel's logic, anyone interested in studying a taboo phenomenon or its relation to society at large is guilty of violating that taboo. That means that criminologists who study rape are rapists, and profilers who study serial killers are actually serial killers themselves. What a puny mind.

I know that as a smartass liberal I sometimes joke (usually over at the General's, along with many other commenters) about homophobic Republicans all being closet homosexuals. However, I really don't think that most homophobes are closet cases. Some are, but most aren't. (I just like to do that because I know it pisses a lot of them off.) I believe most of them are simply fearful of people who make them examine their own sexuality more closely than they are comfortable with because homosexuals make them realize that they (the homophobes) have also been curious at one time or another about homosexuality at a personal level. Combine this discomfort with their inordinate fear of others not like them and repressive religious beliefs, and before you know it there's a proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage.

Mr. Siegel's case could actually be a symptom of the aforementioned phenomenon, in that he feels guilty about not doing the 110% heterosexual thing by banging the young, statutory Ms. Thurman. At 16 I'm going to guess she was good-looking (she looks pretty damn good right now, if you ask me), and I don't think there is any shame in confessing that he found her attractive. (Just listen to and watch The Police's Don't Stand So Close To Me. Sting doesn't want to be a perv, but he can't help but feel some anxiety about having lustful thoughts about some pretty teenage girls, especially the ones who demonstrably appear to be attracted to him. Pretty normal response. Good song too.) BUT, where Siegel's path diverges from most psychologically healthy adult males is that he feels guilty about not screwing her, where as most other males in his position would have been happy with themselves that they did not succumb to temptation, thereby abusing their position and breaking the law by sleeping with her. That's what makes him, as we psychology folks like to call it, fucking creepy. Plus that prick has the gall to label someone else a pedophile, one of the most slanderous or libelous things you can say about someone. What a douche. Maybe Kincaid should threaten legal action. If I were a person in the public eye like Mr. Kincaid I would strongly consider it, because that shit is just WAY beyond the pale of all civilized behavior. Fuck that asshole.

[zuzu]

What's so creepy about the excerpt was that it was very apparent that he was interpreting every last one of her actions as a come-on. That bit about putting her cat in her lap provocatively and stroking the pussy? Hell, just even her face was a come-on. She may very well have been flirting with him, but did she really signal willingness to fuck him? Probably not.

[Bruce]

Oh snap!

[Trystero]

John Lucid - Yikes! I can't tell if that's Uma or a wax representation therof.

[Count Zero]

"Plus that prick has the gall to label someone else a pedophile, one of the most slanderous or libelous things you can say about someone."

I believe they call that deflecting one's guilt.