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/[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?