Demarco Cousins is a highly talented NBA basketball player who has no idea how to act in the spotlight. He has been suspended from his ball club indefintely, giving up millions in contract and endorsement money. He isn’t alone. Most notably The head of the CIA was recently busted for having an affair with his biographer. All the media was asking why these people and those like them, with so much going well for them, would make a mistake like that. Why, in other words, would they deem to be human?
Anne Hathaway, recent victim of a so-called wardrobe malfunction, was prodded and basically clowned by an newsman in regards to her privates being accidentally exposed. She was in a vulnerable situation and was taken advantage of. Her response says it all, “”It kind of made me sad on two accounts. One was that I was very sad that we live in an age when someone takes a picture of another person in a vulnerable moment and rather than delete it–and do the decent thing–sells it. And I’m sorry that we live in a culture that commodifies sexuality of unwilling participants, which brings us back to ‘Les Mis,’ that’s what my character is, she is someone who is forced to sell sex to benefit her child because she has nothing and there’s no social safety net.”
We have this expectation for the people who we see in the public spotlight to somehow be more than human. When they are not we make every effort to make them appear as less than human. This is the classic high school mentality on a national scale. I wish I understiid why it happens.