So one of my guilty pleasures is watching real-crime documetaries, everything from Netflix’s criminal (and criminal justice) documentary oervre is my jam. A lot of them are total trash, some of them are really great (and of course some of them, like The 13th, will fundamentally shift your perspective about the world but this post is not about those ones).
Anyway, right now I’m watching one of the series about Drug Lords - so far I watched the Escobar one and the Guzman (El Chapo) ones - even though I’ve seen documentaries and shows about both of those guys in the past. But in both of these I’ve been struck by something that I’ve seen in lots of other ones too, which is that so many of these guys (and it’s almost ALWAYS guys) are brought down because of their need, sometimes a seemingly pathological need, for women (and girls...way too often its girls). I mean, of course there are other things too, but it seems like having lovers - and lots of them - is so, so frequently criminal’s Achilles’ heels (or perhaps I should say their Paris’ dicks to be more accurate to Greek mythology).
Which leads me to a sort of serious, mostly joking, question.....why don’t more ace people go into criminal enterprise? And leaving aside reality, I now feel like it would be hilarious to read a book or see a show about an “untouchable” crime lord and the police keep trying to get him or her by looking for ways to take advantage of his personal life or find some other weakness, but he’s an aromantic asexual introverted orphan so none of their usual sting operations ever work on him.
Please don’t @ me that I’m suggesting that aro/ace people can’t form friendships or whatever - obviously that’s not true - but come one, we all love a good anti-hero and I feel like there’s some good potential for hijinks here people!