Despicable Times Two
Dumb rap: Eminem glorifies Ben Roethlisberger in a song
Eminem's light hearted reference to Roethlisberger rings wrong.
Ben Roethlisberger just got rowdy in a bathroom according to Slim Shady.
Eminem's never been accused of good judgement. So it probably shouldn't come as a big surprise that Marshall Mathers chose to make light of Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback's Ben Roethlisberger's alleged rape of a college-aged woman.
In his new song "Despicable," Eminem raps, "I'd rather turn this club into a bar room brawl. Get as rowdy as Roethlisberger in a bathroom stall."
Rowdy? Roethlisberger got a little more than rowdy. Any rational person who even paid cursory attention to the police report in the incident has come to the conclusion that at best — and this is giving Big Ben way more benefit of the doubt than he probably deserves — he completely took advantage of a drunk woman as his bodyguards kept her friends from entering the bathroom in question. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell didn't just suspend Roethlisberger for six games, he made the point of publicly saying that Roethlisberger needs "comprehensive behavioral counseling."
Does one need behavioral counseling for getting rowdy?
This wasn't a boys being boys thing as Eminem's light-hearted lyrics suggests. Considering the physical abuse Eminem's mom says she suffered at the hands of his father — and her three other marriages to abusive men — and the way this more than clouded Eminem's relationship with his mother, you'd think he might be a little more sensitive to this sort of thing.
Instead, he turns Roethlisberger's alleged sexual assault into just another joke to crack, puts it on the same level as Mariah Carey's general looniness or Christina Aguilera's other uses of her mouth. Eminem's gone from funny to despicable.
Even worse, his people treated this like it'd be a good publicity stunt — with Eminem's manager posting the Roethlisberger song on a website as part of the lead up to the release of Slim Shady's latest album.
Nothing like turning a 20-year-old woman's horror into a profit grab. How desperate is the real Slim Shady?
