"Above the Law"
When I saw the headline on CNN–“Former model sues Steven Seagal, alleges sexual assault”–the very first thought that crossed my mind was, “it’s an Asian woman.” There was no doubt in my mind whatsoever. I know, he’s innocent until proven guilty, but I felt the Asian connection in my bones. And then, sure enough, three paragraphs down, it read:
Kayden Nguyen, 23, answered an online Craigslist ad for an executive assistant job at Seagal’s production company in February and was soon on his private jet taking off from Los Angeles, California, bound for New Orleans, Louisiana, the suit said.
After ten seconds of googling, sure enough…
Kayden Nguyen
According to CNN:
After Nguyen arrived in New Orleans, “she learned that the job she was expected to perform had nothing to do with being an ‘executive assistant,’ ” it said.
Over the next five days, she was sexually assaulted three times by Seagal at a house “many miles from New Orleans in a remote rural area of Jefferson Parish,” the suit said.
Seagal also kept “two young Russian ‘attendants’ on staff who were available for his sexual needs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week,” it said.
During Nguyen’s first night on the job, Seagal demanded a “massage,” it said.
“He then proceeded to treat Ms. Nguyen as his sex toy.”
Let’s be careful not to blame the victim, especially in hard economic times like this, but if I were a young Asian woman, Steven Seagal would be the last person I’d work for. There are some people who have racial predilections that one shouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole. If you’re an Asian female, don’t go near Rice Chasahs like Steven Seagal. If you’re a parent, don’t send your kids to a daycare run by Gary Glitter. If your Asian male friend goes missing, don’t trust a search party led by Amy Tan. Common sense dictates that you shouldn’t trust certain people with certain other people.
I remember when I first started reading about Seagal. The guy kept bragging about how he set up shop in Japan and started beating up all these racist Japanese aikido dudes and evil Yakuza. According to his stories, he was the man, the masculine alpha dog in Japan. I smelled Orientalism a mile away. Sure enough, when fact checkers started looking into his claims, the truth looked quite different. Throw in nonsense like his Asian themed energy drink, and you’ve got yourself the paragon of Chaser-ism–a guy who relies on racial privilege to stoke his ego.
Until he is proven guilty, you can consider him innocent of the alleged crime. However, don’t consider him innocent in general. He’s creepier than a rice chasing gremlin.
(pics from here)
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That’s hilarious. The guy’s a lying douchebag.
Now maybe you or somebody else can clarify something for me: is Steven Seagal part Asian? I heard some rumor his maternal grandmother was Japanese, but I don’t really believe anything about this guy’s background, for reasons now made obvious.
[the very first thought that crossed my mind was, “it’s an Asian woman.”]
Same here, and the second thought that crossed my mind…that she was another Tila Tequila.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTum0Y_BVOM&feature=related
Alpha,
I don’t think he’s part Asian–most part Asian people wouldn’t treat Japanese culture as he does. But who knows? One can’t believe anything from him!
Guest,
Thanks for the video.
That was my second thought too as soon as I saw her picture. I can’t find it now, but there was a slideshow on the web of Kayden doing a swimsuit shoot, and Tila was the very first person who crossed my mind!
You know what’s funny?
Seagal was shooting an A&E reality series “Steven Seagal: Lawman” in New Orleans when his sexual assaults are said to have occurred. Seagal should prolly change the title of his show to “Steven Seagal: Unindicted Rapist.”
And what I want to know is why law enforcement isn’t investigating these sexual assault charges against Seagal.
Oh, this might have something to do with it:
Her lawyer said Nguyen did not contact local law enforcement agencies “in light of the fact that he’d been down there all that week shooting the TV show riding in a cop car with them.”
His TV reality show is based on Seagal’s work as a reserve deputy chief with the Jefferson Parish Sheriff Department, a post he has held for several years.
“He is the Sheriff’s Department,” attorney William Waldo said.
“Steven has a very close relationship with the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office and I’m proud to have him as part of our team,” Sheriff Newell Normand said last year in a news release announcing the show.
Apparently, if you are a White guy with connections in America, you get a free pass for raping women. (See Ben Rothlisberger)
And Seagal is not Asian. He is a White boy–part Irish, and part White Jewish.
\And what I want to know is why law enforcement isn’t investigating these sexual assault charges against Seagal.\
Maybe he’s a Catholic Priest?
Seagal always gave me the heebie-jeebies.
King- I thought Steven Seagal is the reincarnation of a Tibetann lama. Hey, if you’ve been a celibate monk all your life, I can’t blame you for wanting some serious bootay in your next life.
Lol! Lama booty?
I do find some people dangerously close to blaming this Asian woman for what happened to her based on the “she should have known” excuse. It’s almost a blame-the-victim game.
How do you know if he did it?
I haven’t seen anything on about this on CNN, MSNBC or Fox.
I think these are unfounded rumors and that’s about all. You guys should not get upset over some hear-say. This probably came from National Inquire or something. But she is a very beautiful woman.
“I haven’t seen anything on about this on CNN…”
Sigh. Siggy, check the very first link. I linked it for a reason.
Orientalism aside, I was wondering if you guys knew that she was on Tyra bragging a little about manipulation. Don’t know much about Lipstick Lesbians, but she seems to be an expert on the subject.
Kind of interesting. I saw this episode like last month with the Lady. No kidding. I had no idea it was her until I read about it here and researched it.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20002440-504083.html
I’m sure she’s lying. Why did she leave her cushion job at CNN to take a low paying job with Seagal?
She probably wanted to seduce him and when he came on to her she called out sexual harassment. I think she’s bi herself.
Nothing here makes any since to me.
[quote]Nothing here makes any since to me.[/quote]
u have really poor vocab
IMO, Steven Seagal is a complete whack-job and unfortunately this woman’s story doesn’t surprise me. He’s got six kids with several different mothers, married 3 times (first time to a Japanese woman) in trouble with the Mafia, FBI and CIA.
http://articles.latimes.com/2002/oct/17/local/me-arrest17
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E1D81531F933A25752C0A96E9C8B63
There are tons of other \rumors\ about him all over the place. The man wears monk’s clothing–when even a lot of monks don’t like to wear their robes all the time in the west because of the attention it attracts.
Does he look like a white guy playing dress-up in another culture’s clothes? Yes. Does he change cultures like an actor changes costume? Yes. Could he be the perfect poster boy for the Nth Generation of Crazy Western Usurper? Absoloutely
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Seems like a total nut-case/wanna-be-Yellow-but-not-really/Aikido Master-but-Ass-Kicker/controlfreakweirdo to me… With him I feel pretty confident in believing that what you see is what you get.
Larry said:
Apparently, if you are a White guy with connections in America, you get a free pass for raping women. (See Ben Rothlisberger)
I not going to call someone a rapist unless evidence is pretty clear, people make claims for all sorts of reasons.
There are a lot of people off all colors with money that have avoided criminal convictions because of money.
Kobe, OJ, etc.
This happens all over the world, some high profile cases in Japan where rich guys have not been charged or charged with the equivlant of manslaughter when their female “friend” ends up missing or dead.
In India guys have hit poor people with their cars and not done any time, just paid a little money.
If Seagal did this, hey it would not be shocking to any of us but I will reserve jusgdemt untill more facts come out.
no need to rush to judgement.
@ lingyai
Class is a factor in who gets prosecuted for crimes and who does not by America.
But it’s naive to believe that race does not figure powerfully as a factor as well–not only in prosecutions but also how the US media portrays a suspect.
Just check out the statistics for all the people of color that are disproportionally arrested, convicted, and sentenced for crimes by the US criminal injustice system. Racism and classism usually go hand in glove, and are not separate issues.
As for Seagal, the allegations against him apparently are not even being pursued by the police in the first place. And Seagal just so happens to be cozy with the local Sheriff’s department.
That seems like a “rush to judgment” … in Seagal’s favor.
Without a doubt race plays a factor. If Michael Vick would have been white instead of a black (and considered “arrogant”) I have no doubt the sentence would have been less.
Race and class are closely related I agree. I don’t agree they are the same.
I don’t agree with grouping everything non people of color and people of color. Part of the reason some groups are arrested more is because proportionally more crimes are committed by members who are/identify with that group. The higher number of arrests and convictions isn’t all to do with some stereotypical redneck sheriff. Asians commit fewer crimes than everyone and are arrested less than non people of color and other people of color.
I didn’t think I would ever be in the position of defending Steven Segal but this woman is suing for a million dollars. It makes you wonder. This is what happens to celebrities/rich people. Again I would not be shocked if some/all of what is alleged is true but I wouldn’t be schocked if it is also exaggerated.
I’m reading “Atonement” right now, and Ian McEwan makes a reference to art by Chagall. Thanks to one of the links above, I knew who Chagall is:
http://www.lukeford.net/profiles/profiles/steven_seagal1.htm
The things we learn from the blogosphere…
So that suit for $1 mil against Seagal was dismissed.
This doesn’t mean Seagal didn’t do anything wrong but it does help his case.
He is of course guilty of bad acting.
Segal should go to jail for his bad acting. Or maybe gaol…in Australia.