Just because it’s kinky to you: David Carradine’s death

CNN Headline News has the market cornered on judgmental women parading around as journalists. First there was Nancy Grace and now it’s Jane Valez Mitchell and her fucking issues.

Last night, she spent at least an hour talking about the death of actor David Carradine.

Carradine liked S&M. Some reports say he was found tied up and hanging in a closet and it had a sexual connotation to it. And?

Does it make his death less tragic because he wanted to have sex that wasn’t just missionary? And who does Jane think she is, judging a dead man by his sexual tastes. I forget the name of the so-called expert who was on her show, but this woman said Carradine was sick because of what he wanted to do in the bedroom.

Sick? Really? Was he having sex with children, because that’s sick. Wanting to explore erotica isn’t sick.

At the bottom of the screen, there was a headline flash that Carradine like to ride horseback in his Speedos. And? His horse, his property, his business.

His ex-wife is quoted on newkerala.com saying:

“David was pretty strange. He would like to get tied up. He would tie himself up and I would walk in and see him and say, ‘Oh my God, David, you got to be kidding me’ – and I would (turn around and) walk out,” the Daily Express quoted her as revealing in an interview at the weekend.

“I would leave him to his own devices. He liked to be tied up. And he could tie himself up… He spent days planning a different feature. He would go to a hardware store and buy the stuff,” she said.

But Jensen also admitted to TMZ.com that even though Carradine enjoyed bondage, “it was never sexual.”

So, has the “Kung Fu” and “Kill Bill” actor been reduced to this? He’s the guy who like bondage and now he’s dead?

Just because he wanted something different from sex or liked to tie himself up for whatever reason, it doesn’t make him sick. But for people who can’t find anything else to talk about–while this man’s family morns–then maybe you’re the sick one.

This article appears in Jun 9-16, 2009.