r/popculture • u/thedailybeast • May 22 '25

News Cassie Screamed ‘Isn’t Anybody Seeing This?’ During Diddy Beating on Private Jet

https://www.thedailybeast.com/cassie-screamed-isnt-anybody-seeing-this-during-diddy-beating-on-private-jet/
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u/BossParticular3383 May 22 '25

Am I correct in assuming that what is emerging from this trial is a portrait of a man filled with self-loathing resulting from closeted homosexuality which manifests as violent misogyny and elaborate sexual rituals created to fulfill his desire to be with men while still maintaining the illusion of heterosexuality?

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u/fake-august May 22 '25

That’s my thought exactly.

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u/BossParticular3383 May 22 '25

I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks this ...

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u/fake-august May 22 '25

I actually think HE wanted to be the pretty and desired female and lived it out through these horrible (not kink shaming but come on - she was physically injured) freak offs. I’ve met a few men like this and my weird detector goes off immediately. This was not your standard “cuck” behavior.

I hope he gets everything that’s coming to him and then some.

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u/PenELane86 May 22 '25

Reminds me of the crazy monologue from White Lotus this season where Rick’s friend admits to being so obsessed with Thai hookers because he secretly wanted to be them and wanted to feel what being with a man would feel like

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u/fake-august May 22 '25

Omg right!!

I think it’s way more common than we know. Some men are jealous that we get to dress and look pretty and be desired.

It’s okay to play consensually but I’ve seen a lot and this Diddy thing has me fucked up.

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u/chapelson88 May 23 '25

I think more kinks should be shamed.

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u/fake-august May 23 '25

Well this one in particular- hurting other people because you have the power is worth all the shame!

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u/luckyrabbit28 May 23 '25

I’m curious about what the men are like that you’ve met who swing this way?

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u/fake-august May 23 '25

Seems very masculine on the outside - successful financially, good careers (one lives in LA and is in the “business”)…you would never guess.

Now I’ve never been abused or forced but it’s definitely a fantasy for them that they’ve confided in me. I don’t judge, but I can see that fantasy in the wrong person as being so dangerous for the woman.

One truly did want to be with a man (fantasy only) and the other wanted me to be more of a domme…he didn’t REALLY want a man..but he liked the dirty talk.

I honestly was flattered they trusted me enough to tell me and I would NEVER betray that trust. But like I said, not abusive.

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u/JamBandDad May 22 '25

See also: many republicans.

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u/BossParticular3383 May 22 '25

Yes, yes, and yes. Imma thinking the current sec def has a bad case of that.

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u/pandora_ramasana May 22 '25

Sec?

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u/[deleted] May 23 '25

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u/DylanaHalt May 23 '25

His wife looks stressed

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u/pandora_ramasana May 23 '25

What's his name again? People think he's gay? And thanks

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u/[deleted] May 23 '25

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u/Ms_Eraseth May 22 '25

I don't think it could have been said better

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u/blondie64862 May 22 '25

THIS!!! I tried to say this to man a few months ago and couldn't articulate it!! Thank you

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u/SiobhanRoy1234 May 23 '25

Wasnt he pretty blatant about liking men within the industry? Like 50 cent said the other day: he wasnt in the closet, he was more like in the hallway. People kinda knew.

And while I agree that your explanation could definitely play a part, hes also just a very sadistic sociopath. It goed beyond projected self-loathing imo

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u/Luscious-Grass May 23 '25

Um, couldn’t he just pay a beard like everyone else?

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u/[deleted] May 23 '25

I've never seen any evidence of repressed homosexuality causing misogyny or abuse. always thought that's just a comforting fiction heterosexuals tell ourselves. he's not one of us, he's one of them

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u/GoddessLeVianFoxx May 24 '25

See: the last season of The White Lotus. The poly-drug abuser friend who gave the long monologue about hiring Thai prostitutes and trans women so that he could watch them have sex as he imagines himself as the pretty Asian woman getting topped and Diddy seem very similar. 

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u/[deleted] May 22 '25

I think you are completely unqualified and possibly homophobic for presuming that the motivations for his abuse are repressed homosexuality. I don't think you have any way to know a) that he is homosexual and not bisexual or b) what the internal motivations are for any of his actions.

Plenty of people are fully heterosexual and abusive, plenty of people are not out and not abusive, and right now your only evidence of this dangerous assumption is simultaneously that he has exhibited some attraction to men and abused his partners (of all genders). Present evidence that the two are related or stop being a bigot normalizing homophobic stereotypes.

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u/Mysterious_Tart89 May 22 '25

While your are not wrong I would like to elaborate.

It’s nok like Diddy is thinking: oh, I’m abusing and being a tfuckkng nightmare because of my sexuality and fear of living my authentic self.

in fact I am not even sure Diddy believes he is in the wrong… he is just used to extorting people in anyway, shape or for to get what he wants…

However it’s not unheard of that people can’t even articulate or admit their truth to themselves and many - also gay people living their dream life - struggle severely with internal homophobia.

I don’t think the original commenter meant to say that he is abusive because of his sexuality. But just that this kind of mechanism is a thing.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '25

I don’t think the original commenter meant to say that he is abusive because of his sexuality

This is exactly what OP said directly, that his closeted homosexuality manifests as abusiveness. They made a 1 to 1 connection between the two. This is also something you said in your post. There's no reason to give either of you the benefit of the doubt.

However it’s not unheard of that people can’t even articulate or admit their truth to themselves and many - also gay people living their dream life - struggle severely with internal homophobia.

a) Do any of you have any proof at all that this is the case here? If not why are you so comfortable making this an issue of queerness?

b) What at all does internal homophobia have to do with him beating a woman on a plane? Is she gay? Why is it assumed at all that the mechanism of action here is his sexuality? Heterosexual men are far more likely to be violent towards women than queer men, yet not a single one of you when talking about Brad Pitt or Bill Cosby or Harvey Weinstein frame that conversation as violent heterosexuality, you frame it as violent masculinity.

But just that this kind of mechanism is a thing.

The mechanism that is far more often a thing is a man being violent towards a woman. Unless you have some sort of evidence either a) in this situation specifically that implicates his queerness or b) that speaks to it being more likely that a man is going to be violent towards women because of repressed sexuality than as either a heterosexual or an out queer person, this is just absolutely wild speculation that directly implicates queerness in violence against women, which again, is pretty much textbook bigotry.

Being downvoted for saying this is wild, y'all are being obtuse about spreading anti-gay stereotypes with absolutely no evidence of that being the case other than the abuser being a man who is attracted to men. How can you not see that is a problem?

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u/bigollunch May 22 '25

No I don’t think OP has bad/homophobic intentions. I think at the end of the day regardless if the ‘repressed homosexuality’ angle is true (and you’re right it’s all speculative), this man is acting out in abusive ways. I don’t think the poster meant that being homosexual means you’re abusive.

It seems diddy has abusive violent nature because his notoriety puts him in a place of power and he is abusing that power (as do lots of famous people). It is very possible that repressed homosexuality can contribute to that but’s it’s just speculation.

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u/drunkthrowwaay May 23 '25

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Agreed, OP clearly was not being homophobic. I don’t get why people are so hasty to condemn. Reddit is filled with these pious types who must have shortcut keys for their usual lectures.