Why is America so outraged by the realities of Bill Belichick and Jordan Hudson’s relationship? At first glance, the answer seems obvious. A 73-year-old man is in a relationship with a 24-year-old woman. Bill could literally be Jordan’s great-grandfather. Outrageous, right? Their relationship story has gone viral. Interviews, millions of views, and American boos.
Hard Stop! They have been in a relationship for four years. Why, all of a sudden, has America taken this relationship viral?
Is it the age difference causing American minds to cringe? I don’t buy that answer! If that were the case, then America would have demanded that Hugh Hefner, who died in 2017 at the age of 91, to stop having sex with 20 and 30-something women. Instead, Hugh is often celebrated as a savvy magazine publisher and a “man’s man.” So I ask again, is the viral factor happening between Bill and Jordan because of the sexual/relational age difference? I propose no.
I theorize that if it were simply the age difference, then there would be an outcry about the Epstein transgressions where literal female and male children were kidnapped (recruited) and trafficked to a private island in the ironically named Virgin Islands and lent out to older men for pleasure, but let’s call it what it is; rape. The Epstein files are getting some attention but not the same viral outrage as Bill and Jordan’s relationship.
Shall I keep going? Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky got much attention in 1995 when he was 49. She was 22 years old when Bill said, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky.” That story was clearly news, but it quieted down because Mr. President was in charge and many celebrate the blue dress. But wait! There’s more! Do you consider it viral news that men who want to be women are forcing themselves into girls’ and women’s sports, locker rooms, and restrooms? Even that does not have the viral momentum of a 24-year-old woman in a relationship with a 73-year-old man. Why? What is different about Bill and Jordan’s story?
I’d like to make a suggestion or ask a question. Could the difference be determined by focusing on one word: control?
If Bill and Jordan have been in a relationship for four years, why, just now, is their relationship going viral? They went viral only after Jordan cut off the media interviewer when he asked Belichick how he and Jordan met. She interrupted with the now viral statement, “We are not talking about this.” Her demonstration of control in that precarious situation has Americans, at the bare minimum, scratching their heads and, at most, demanding an intervention for Bill Belichick, who clearly needs to be told that she has him under her controlling spell. Media are parroting, “Can he not see her abuse?” What’s the difference between Hugh Hefner, Epstein’s story, Bill Clinton, and Bill Belichick?
Hugh Hefner controlled the girls, Epstein and his clients controlled the girls, Clinton controlled the girl, and Belichick did NOT control the girl.
How dare Jordan Hudson make an eight-Superbowl-ring-wearing icon look like he is not in charge or control. How dare she be in control of an American masculinity idol! Alert! Alert! Somebody must do an intervention! Raise the red flags! We better stop this nonsense immediately; women cannot be in control of a masculine man! But, shhhh, men can be in women’s sports.
It’s too quiet regarding Hefner, Epstein, and Clinton having control over women, and it’s too quiet about men dominating women’s sports. Still, America is screaming foul regarding Jordan Hudson’s assumed control of Bill Belichick.
Does the outcry about Jordan’s assumed control over Bill expose an underlying mentality about women?
C’mon, Trent, we made some changes recently and gave women permission to vote in our elections. Did Jordan’s interview intervention reveal a monster under America’s bed? The beast under the bed isn’t a creature; it’s an altitude attitude, a position of power, a reinforced glass ceiling that demands women to know their place. Dammit women! Honor the heirarchy! Women, especially young and powerful women, must not ever interfere with a man’s legacy and that legacy’s immortality.
Is this just another trending viral moment? Nothing to see here! Maybe “this too shall pass.” But my gut says that until we all learn that we are better together as men and women, except in bathrooms and sports, the holding back of women from influence will persist and be excused because “the girls” are all a bunch of feminists. Life will forever be virally holding each other back as long as men and women fight for control. When will we learn that the good life is one of teamwork and trust, security, with welcomed interruptions of the media’s satiated, desperate hunger to keep us all fighting? Until we grasp who is manipulating us all to keep fighting for power and control, this too shall last.