Inadequate men who manipulated others

I JUST saw the ITV documentary on Gary Glitter.

Look, I’m not the brightest apple in the cart – I have brain fog from fibromyalgia and ME and am diagnosed autistic. My educational attainment is usually a pass and not much more after working harder than others on a course. But even I can see that Glitter and Jimmy Savile

were two rather inadequate men who were just allowed by others to develop into dangerous people. The vain way they both dressed, which was not justified by their way below alpha-male appearance strongly suggested to me that these two were deluded. To me these two were inadequate men who somehow managed to get into the media. How? By creeping up to the more powerful? By being pushy? By playing dirty games to eliminate competition?

These two are some of a long list of men who convinced themselves as well as everyone else that they were iconic. The only thing they were an icon of to me – was confidence.

Many paedophiles pick on someone who they can easily have power over. In Glitter’s case, he chose under-age children in the UK, and, after being revealed, progressed to choose under-age children in poorer countries. In Savile’s case, he preyed on girls who were in institutions, and often lacked mental capacity or were labelled as having behavioural problems, so these girls didn’t get to do the choosing of people socially. They were in a weak position in society, and Savile instinctively knew they were easy targets.

Glitter was even devious enough to move to cheaper countries after being convicted in more expensive England, so he’d be able to buy more power and silence for his pound with the advantageous exchangerate, in poorer countries like Cambodia and Vietnam.

These two men were either born

with a dangerous personality – or they felt inferior as they grew up, and they used anything or anyone to triumph over their inferiority by becoming a public figure for a very perverted private goal: to target children and vulnerable teenagers/ adults. They knew their fame would open up a straight road to the unquestioned (due to their status, success and money) perverted privacy they desired, to use exalted adult status to prey on children for sex.

I don’t see these two men, or any paedophiles or sex criminals as bad, I see them as damaged and out of control – and were never stopped. Surely it is partly our way of life that is contributing to this sort of problem?

I do agree that some folk might just be born with a personality disorder but surely we should be educated to recognise the signs of a manipulative, dangerous person.

Also, surely we should have awareness-raising programmes on TV, showing classic criminal cases so that the public are more aware of manipulation?

Rhian Hewitt-Davies

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