The Daily Beast article on the incident says “A search of Greene’s phone revealed her Reddit profile that included “followed communities” for “bodymods” and “scarification.””. Speculation here, but following the communities instead of just looking up places to get them done suggests that they’re actually interested in those scenes. My money is on underlying kink.
There’s got to be some element of that, because there’s “desperate grifter trying to get attention” level stunts, and there’s “pay hundreds of dollars to a professional to carve you up, then have your friend zip tie you in the woods” on a whole different level. Like I assume if this was some sort of mental health crisis getting channeled into a frantic political grift the wounds would have been self-inflicted and the whole thing would have been way more impulsive instead of just incompetent, but this shows a lot of planning plus the capacity to just sit still and let someone slice her up like that.
At the same time, that’s an extreme first step for a masochist to take. It almost scans as something like sub frenzy, where someone who’s just starting out gets increasingly obsessed with a fantasy that they lack the experience and context to even understand and potentially engages in very risky behavior or ignores red flags, diving in too deep too fast. Like the idea of it was exciting and became an unhealthy obsession that was then channeled into trying to grift off it too.
This is some really extreme kink shit and the political angle was an excuse to go through with it, right?
The Daily Beast article on the incident says “A search of Greene’s phone revealed her Reddit profile that included “followed communities” for “bodymods” and “scarification.””. Speculation here, but following the communities instead of just looking up places to get them done suggests that they’re actually interested in those scenes. My money is on underlying kink.
There’s got to be some element of that, because there’s “desperate grifter trying to get attention” level stunts, and there’s “pay hundreds of dollars to a professional to carve you up, then have your friend zip tie you in the woods” on a whole different level. Like I assume if this was some sort of mental health crisis getting channeled into a frantic political grift the wounds would have been self-inflicted and the whole thing would have been way more impulsive instead of just incompetent, but this shows a lot of planning plus the capacity to just sit still and let someone slice her up like that.
At the same time, that’s an extreme first step for a masochist to take. It almost scans as something like sub frenzy, where someone who’s just starting out gets increasingly obsessed with a fantasy that they lack the experience and context to even understand and potentially engages in very risky behavior or ignores red flags, diving in too deep too fast. Like the idea of it was exciting and became an unhealthy obsession that was then channeled into trying to grift off it too.
knifeplay and a blood kink certainly. i too had a fun time explaining contusions on my wrists i gotchu, queen