Russell absolutely would LOVE to be Harvey Weinstein, Dan Schneider or most guys that produce and coordinate porn.
No I agree, he wants to be PRAISED for being a wonderful songwriter...but he doesn't actually care to be one. He has no inner artistic drive that finds joy in simply creating. He doesn’t write music because he loves to do it. All of his “songs” are carefully crafted to appeal to specific women, and he writes nothing else. Where’s the late night noodling on his keyboard and posting up a few little tunes on insta because he just got to feeling creative? Or songs that are about literally ANYTHING except kissing hot and/or famous women’s arses?
Katy Perry didn't write "I kissed a girl." Cathy Dennis did. Cathy Dennis had her own singing career in the early 90s, but she soon decided to settle down and just be a songwriter, and I'd lay money that Katy Perry's target audience has never heard of Cathy Dennis. She doesn't tour with her, she just collects royalty checks. It's a good way to get a lot of money, but you won't get famous from it, at least not the kind of fame Russ wants.
There's actually something to be said for the soft misogyny of the PUA type. The people I know who were "successful" at this (even though they are generally sex addicted narcs) never spent a second seething about a no. They viewed that as a waste of time and that even a second spent caring about being shot down was one second less to continue trolling for pussy. It's the incel types who obsess about and endlessly seethe about every single no. As much as PUAs, especially the type who sell swindles to incels, are pieces of shit, they're actually generally correct about their utter disregard for rejection. They know no means no and move on.
Russ somehow cherry picked nothing but the negative aspects of Mormonism and he's all those, with absolutely none of the positives.
Polygamists are generally not only not interested in male converts, they have a terrible habit of casting out mateless males, who are absolutely fucked in the head thanks to cult indoctrination, and generally end up on welfare. Anyone who thinks polygamy is victimless isn't familiar with how absolutely horribly these cults treat their members, both male and female, to prop up a completely unsustainable and illegal and immoral family structure.
Don't forget that they also cheat the government out of welfare dollars, so the taxpayers are subsidizing their evil ways. They treat the women like slaves, and the younger men are cast out into the world with no skills and no place to go. There's a good book, Under the Banner of Heaven that talks about the FLDS.
The climax of that saga would be when a man named Rain Falls hobbles his legs because he can't pay off his gambling loans.
Everytime someone brings up that song I think of the dancing Winnie the Pooh
No question. If Russell had money, power, and influence, he would use it to force women into giving him sexual favors. It's also why he wanted to own a brothel. He wants to be able to have the power to hurt a woman if she refuses his advances, which is what he's been trying his whole life to do to other women. If Russell had lots of money and influence and no deformity, he could potentially be another Epstein.
You're definitely on the right track, but he'd also whine and guilt trip her by accusing her of discrimination if she ever made a single tweak to any of his songs. And every song she ever made would be credited to him. I bet he'd get mad if she ever even sang one of her old songs at one of her concerts, since she's his now and if she doesn't perform his songs she'll lose her career and become his maid servant, polishing his awards. He wouldn't care at all about her input or her vision, Taylor would only exist to prop up his career.
You hit the nail on the head, this is exactly what he wants. He wants only the recognition and glory that comes with fame, and none of the commitment. He just thinks music is easy, and assumes there's lots of opportunities to have sex with famous women if he gets into some position of fame in the industry. He doesn't get that Taylor's music, while not something I enjoy, means a lot to many people and was written with a lot of sincerity and passion, not just for fame and wealth. Everything Russell does is done with an ulterior motive of achieving fame and/or sex. And while I'm not sure about this, I get the impression that Russell can't comprehend anyone thinking differently than him, so he may think everyone else is just as fame-obsessed as he is. Maybe he thinks everyone does things with those same ulterior motives and that's why he thinks his lawsuits are in good faith (although he may just not understand what "good faith" means as we've previously discussed.) Maybe that's why he gets so surprised when people ask him why he only reaches out to famous women rather than trying to get noticed on a more local level musically. Fame is all that matters, so why start small? Maybe I'm wrong but Russell's narcissism may make him that narrow minded.
Yeah, I don't think he has theory of mind. I think that's why he acts genuinely baffled when people don't act the way he's scripted them to. After all, it's what HE would do, therefore everyone else does things the same way. He thought his song to Taylor was the greatest thing ever made, so that's why he was pissed when it was rejected without anyone listening to it because everyone else should think it's great too. I think this explains why he tries to dictate people's reactions to him. He thinks whatever he's doing is great, awesome whatever so that's how you should view it too. Remember when he said he wasn't being intrusive to Taylor's family and because of that they were slandering him? He thought he was justified in contacting them so they can't be upset no matter how much of a pest he was. It all goes back to Russ's basic belief that no one is allowed to deny him something he thinks he's owed. That's why he wrote the kill list, that's why he sued Taylor and that's why he stalked Erika and still thinks he didn't do anything wrong. I think because of that, he'll violate his probation sooner or later.
It also ties into why he assumes all men treat prostitutes like the lowest dregs. He was boggled to hear that one prozzie tell him off and say that loads of her male clients are very nice to her.
Because PUA is a lot about pretending to be a 9/10 stud who has a plate of options, plus the raw numbers game where ask out enough women and eventually one will say "yes". Getting told off doesn't burn you out because you went in with the knowledge that you aren't actually all that (you're just pretending/bluffing) and the expectation that for most guys roughly 4/5 women will reject you.
Misogynists are always like this. They think that either every guy out there is fooling women into loving the, because that's what they have to do, or that they're somehow too good for the rest of society.
That was a glorious moment. He had no idea how to respond because he's based his identity on being the only nice guy to sex workers. Many men are nice to sex workers for various reasons. Some are just acting so they won't get rejected and some are genuinely nice. I wonder if he knows that lots of men who see prostitutes give them expensive gifts, like jewelry and cars. Shit I've heard of guys buying their favorite escort a house. Some give sex workers thousands of dollars on top of their fee. Russ would probably view giving a hooker anything beyond her fee as theft. I've said it before, Russ seriously thinks he can compete with guys who can afford to fly women to the islands on their private jet. I wonder if Russ thinks he's the only guy who gives gifts to sex workers.
He really does see himself as 9 or 10. He also thinks he's suave and charming. He also probably thinks he's clean too. I'd like to think that I'm having a steamy affair with Margot Robbie but thinking something doesn't make it true. He routinely tells women they can't do better than him, and he believes it. That's why he hates on other men because he seriously sees himself as both physically and socially superior to them.
I think my favorite part of that is his absolute insistence of following the 90s rom-com formula to attract women and then being absolutely baffled when it doesn't work.
Why would you treat a woman who's handling your junk like she's trash? I mean I get you might have some moral objections to how she's choosing to make money but you're still fucking her.
It's the line that a lot of incels wound up buying that all they had to be was themselves and the prom queen would fall in love with them and can't understand why it never worked. And yeah women like guys that treat them well. But you also need to bring something to the table other than just, "I won't treat you like dirt".
You think he has Pretty Woman playing on loop in his sex den?
Well, that's infuriating.
It's almost like white male privilege is a real thing...
