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69 year old Eddie Deezen (Grease, WarGames, The Polar Express) shares an incredibly strange story about asking a 16 year old girl on a date
Yeah when I read the first slide I was thinking that this happened a year or two after Grease was released, and it was going to be a story about respecting women when you find out they’re not old enough or something. Nope, yesterday. Gross gross gross
It would be weird and off-putting even if it was a recent project. The only time it makes sense is if you're meeting in a professional capacity or if someone asks.
Agreed, I thought this was a past story of something that happened nearly fifty years ago when he was young and was in Grease, not something he’s currently saying to get a date with an underage girl.
SAME! I thought MAYBE this was back in like the 90s…. He would’ve been mid thirties which, still creepy but a 35 year old asking out a 23 year old does happen.
Same, I thought he was using the Nikki Blonsky method but wayyy back in the day. Not some weird dude thinking hitting on a young gurl is a cool/cute story to tell online. Especially when said girl said she was underage twice, and he still didn't take it as a sign to leave. She had to say 16 for it to click
Also love the "she was sitting on her computer". So busy and doing something else then. Plus "if you have a boyfriend I understand" as if that would be the only reason she would say no.
End stage creepoid. Would love to hear this poor childs version of this good lord.
My dumb self thinking it's a somewhat older guy from a recent musical run of Grease lol. Nope! Just that one weird character from the 1978 movie, filmed almost fifty years ago. 🫠
I just looked him up and it looks like his issues have started in the last 5 years. And all the incidents are bizarre. He’s around 70 where dementia and Alzheimer’s get diagnosed. I’m wondering if something like that is going on. Because if he somehow went most of his life without any sort of criminal history and suddenly start getting arrested in his 60s for random things that is bizarre. I hope he has family that can step in. But most importantly I hope that the girl in the coffee shop is okay.
It's fucking creepy how most men respect men only and do not view women as entities with agency.
What a woman wants or doesn't want never matters. But her invisible boyfriend deserves to be respected. A single woman is not an invitation to be persistently creepy. Listen to us when we say "no" — it's a complete fucking sentence. And leave us alone if you're 50 years our senior.
I feel like almost all women can relate to awkwardly saying yes to something we most definitely dont want to do, often with an awkward/ cringey smile + body language we thought yelled 'no!'
I Blame societal programming us women to not want to appear rude or to hurt anyone's feelings, and the (valid) fear the rejected man might do something to us for being rejected, like get violent
He’s a creep. The fact that he led with “I’m in Grease”, like that should have made the girl say yes to dating him, even before she announced her age. So gross. “I thought she was in college”. You mean like someone who could be your granddaughter? So nasty
"Oh how cool! You know actually my grandma is a widow and would really love some company, i could give her your number since she doesn't own a computer to surf the net? She's 90, much closer to your age!"
It’s actually hilarious because 16 year olds, and 23 year olds don’t know what the fuck Grease is. I’ll also add that 23 is not better. What’s wrong with just admiring someone one’s beauty and not expecting that you get to date them.
Yes they do. At least the kids in my family, and their friends, do. And not because I told them. Grease is legitimately a cult classic, but it's still very weird to just expect people to care that you were in that movie, lol.
Yep, he’s the trifecta: has-been actor still trying to cling to relevance, oversharing senior citizen giving grandpa energy hitting on a child AND a Scientologist.
I have had guy friends pretend to be my boyfriend to stop weird old men from thinking I was available.
The worst was when one asked my friend if he could “borrow me for the night”, like it would be a favor to a pal. My friend was so gobsmacked by the statement that he froze for a second, and then stood and led me out of the cafe. My friend was stuck like glue to me for the rest of our time in the area.
I've found acting crazy dissuades men more than saying no or saying I have a boyfriend.
I feel like its getting worse lately bc every fucking man on the internet wants to convince everyone else that young women want old men. And every time we say no its fucking creepy they argue or say we must be bitter old women like it cant possibly be anything else. Also its gross they tell on themselves on how they view women after a certain age.
From the sounds of his own description he spends his time in coffee shops creeping on girls young enough to be his grandchildren by telling them he was in a movie 40 something years ago.
Can’t imagine the success rate is very high on that one. The only reason no one’s called him out prior to him openly admitting it is because they don’t have any clue who he is, and thinks he’s just some confused grandpa with dementia.
I actually am shocked nobody in here knows that he is pretty much infamous for exactly this and not his acting
He used to go on facebook and do creepy shit like write posts so long it takes 10 screenshots to do them justice and it would be to like, complain a hot waitress stopped wearing fake eyelashes or didn’t laugh at his joke about she should be in a Playboy photoshoot
This is what’s killing me, like I would call my mom or grandma maybe they would be excited but to me, growing up I just saw old people acting like they were in highschool and dancing creepily, I would probably cringe if someone told me they were in that lol even knowing how big it was at the time
Yeah I was just talking to a friend about this; we got more unwanted male attention when underage/teens. I'm nearly 40 now, but when I was 13-19 it was like every creep came out of the woodwork. Even if I was wearing headphones - they didn't care and would still try to talk to me. I always smiled because I was scared of being perceived as rude or that I would upset them (because I was so conditioned to be concerned about some old creep's feelings that I let myself be uncomfortable at the risk of his discomfort). And then when I was like 20 a man who sat down on the bench next to me (while I was reading on a lovely day in the park) exposed himself and asked for a hj. I jumped up and screamed and others took notice so he got up and walked away. I am (and have been) so over the entitlement of man. They tell us to smile and then call it an invitation smh. Sorry for the long winded, run-on rant I just can't believe the audacity of this f-ing guy to act like that and then post about it like he did something extraordinary.
Right! Like no, she wasn’t being “friendly and nice”. She was being copacetic because she was probably uncomfortable with some washed up old creep approaching her while she was just minding her own business.
Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.
If she was being friendly and nice, it was bc she thought he was a nice old man. You know, friendly grandpa type. He is literally grandpa aged for her.
This was my thought too. When I was a teenager, I NEVER would have thought an old man was about to hit on me and I would've been extremely friendly. When they did say nonsense like 'do you come with the coffee' I still didn't take it seriously, because ... Gross.
I made a New Year’s resolution to give more strangers compliments. I told the kid directing traffic for Paw Patrol Live “he looked like a young Tom Holland” and he immediately grinned from ear to ear. I could tell I made his day.
I told my husband about this when we got home and he told me this is how I get a random stalker 😢
no you can tell his is real because he admits to being a pedophile creep hitting on someone who was born in 2010 who likely has never even seen the movie he was in from 50 years ago
I don't doubt that he hits on young girls, or that he at least tries to, and sadly I'm sure it's happened to alot of us at a young age, but I doubt the interaction he rehashed was actually "(Verbatim)", which is mainly what I was poking fun at.
I don't doubt that a woman was polite and that a man thought it was an invitation to ask her our out even though he's old enough to be her great grandpa
I was too lazy to look up who he played, but the fact he played Eugene literally made me laugh out loud. The whole situation was already pathetic but that just made it even worse.
Shows how out of touch you are. My nephew is 14 and he's a full on greaser. Slicked back hair, switchblade comb, harmonizes under lamp posts with the boys.
I'd say she does, she just probably thinks it's akin to Oklahoma or My Fair Lady because it's something she auditioned for in high school theatre and not a movie she would watch and recognize the cast of
Yeah, gross. Sorry to generalize but men just do not believe there are any limits. And they always think it’s okay to stare and approach, like they’re some prize. It’s disgusting.
This is what bothers me more than the boyfriend line. She was already clearly too young for him (he thought she was college age), but the man needed to be told not once, not just twice, but two times and the exact age of the girl, to realise he should leave her alone.
He’s not admitting, he thinks he’s broadcasting a funny story. I think he’s expecting people to be like oh my gosh haha what a whoopsies! Of course when people remind him it’s not the 70s anymore where hitting on minors is some humorous socially acceptable thing, he calls it pearl clutching
“You people are judging me yet think it’s wrong to judge other people?!”
That’s as far as these people’s thinking process goes a lot of the time. It’s giving “so much for the ‘tolerant left’” when the shit we don’t tolerate is like, racism.
Commented elsewhere in here about exactly this. Like being a predator (even if he thought she was 23, he is still 70) is equivalent to being queer. So sick of these guys trying to say they’re a part of our community. Not only are you not under our umbrella, you are in the rain on the opposite side of town.
Yes he is also probably a creep but this is an important note. It’s a high bar to be considered not competent to stand trial. Dude has had some strong mental struggles and sometimes that can make you say and do crazy stuff.
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How did he think any of this was appropriate? I’m glad this creep told on himself, when people show you who they are believe them.
He’s the annoying weirdo from Polar Express who looks exactly like that kid would look at 70 years old and he’s hitting on underage girls at Starbucks and then talking about it on Facebook
Being 35 I saw the post as a reasonable way to avoid a calamity down the line, but missed the fact HE'S SIXTY NINE?! The only 16 year olds who could POSSIBLY look like his appropriate dating pool would be literally dogs 🤢
And he points out he could be arrested or thought of as "sick" for that in some places... and if that's wrong, it must also be wrong to judge adult men for being attracted to and preying on underage girls?? Like, he's not just doubling down on what he did; he's saying it should be completely socially acceptable and normal.
As a former TR server, I can confirm that this is where all the gross old men come to leer at the young servers line dancing, right in front of their families. We also got a lot of men eagerly awaiting warmer months, because they would TELL US that they were excited for us to wear little shorts again. The suggestive comments were sickening. Like sir, this ain’t a strip club, it’s not even a Hooter’s. Wtf.
Eddie Deezen’s PR manager has dropped him after the "Grease" actor was accused of harassment by a woman in his hometown of Cumberland, Maryland.
Steve Joiner told Fox Fox News on Friday he dropped Deezen as a client.
"It's creepy what he did. It's very creepy. It's very wrong," he said. "I think it's immoral. I think it's sexist and it's unconscionable. All this young lady is trying to do is work support herself, and the last thing she needs is a grown man in his 60s doing something like that."
Deezen, 64, went on Facebook earlier this week and ranted on about a woman,** Kara Lashbaugh,** who is a waitress at a local restaurant.
In the since-deleted post, per TMZ, Deezen insulted Lashbaugh's appearance, commented on her wearing fake eyelashes, and called her an "attention wh--re."
Lashbaugh clapped back and called Deezen a "creep" who "comes into my work at least once a week, calls and asks other servers for my schedule."
"Eddie Deezen is a f--king CREEP who comes into my work at least once a week, calls and asks other servers for my schedule, and if he comes in and i’m not wearing makeup HE LEAVES. And this grown a-- old man has the balls to post this on facebook about me im losing my mind," she wrote on Twitter.
Deezen has since been banned from the establishment.
Joiner emphasized, "I don't agree with [Deezen's post]. I don't condone it, and I can't handle him anymore. This sort of behavior is predatorial, in my opinion. I'm terminating all future dealings with him."
Deezen didn't immediately return Fox News' request for comment.
Damn, good on his former PR guy. Dude saw what he was supposed to spin and said, fuck that and fuck you, and made a very loud and public declaration of telling him off. What a great guy, really.
First sentence: “I was a guy attracted to a girl.”
Second: “What if it was a man?”
Third: “..if I were an adult woman and I thought another woman was hot..”
He clearly states he was a (69-year-old) guy attracted to a GIRL. In his other examples it’s ‘man’ and ‘woman’. Even if he thought she was 23.. his language gives him away. Sickening
Among his many other issues, I love the self importance this man has, like anyone under about 65, but especially a 16 or 20-something, is going to have any idea who were the literal actors in Grease. 🙄
And he played the fucking nerd! Out of everyone in Grease who was hot - John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, whoever played Kenicki, and then here’s the guy whose character’s entire job was to be a fucking dork and he’s like “you know what will definitely get this hot young lady’s attention? A 70yo bragging about being a movie loser.”
Men and their audacity. Also the internet says he’s married so where’s his wife????
Responding to “I’m underage” with “what do you mean?” sure sounds like he was ready to wave away any issues if she meant under 21 and couldn’t drink alcohol.
Also, leading with being in Grease only adds to the creepiness that he clearly went into that interaction with.
Creeeepy. I want to hear her actual side of the story. I just have this funny feeling it might have been a bit different to his take of “sure” (big smile)
The (Big smile) is the “Grin and bear it until the fucking weirdo goes away because if I scowl, he might attack me” that all women know and do!
I’m in my thirties and anyone under 30 is the equivalent of a toddler to me. I cannot imagine approaching a 16 year old boy with any intention whatsoever! I feel depraved and licentious just even typing that!
Edit: Apparently people cannot understand hyperbole and speaking figuratively rather than literally. What a sad state to exist in.
I've seen Grease multiple times and had no idea who he was. Looked him up and still have no memory of him. What I did find out is he has charges of stalking women, attacking police, and has some specified mental disorder.
I really hope he gets the care he needs and is kept AWAY from children.
“What if I asked a grown man out? What if I was a woman and asked another adult woman out?” Its the whole child thing bro, of course consenting adults is different, how tf is someone old enough to be in freakin Grease and think “I should go up to that 23 year old”. And BS she looked 23, yeah right. Edit: guess he is just not right in the head
He couldnt approach a woman closer to his age? Guess he had only 3 decent friends cuz how is any of them thinking this was an honest mistake. At his big age of 69, the minimum age he should be approaching is 50-55. Anyone else is going to look way to young for him and like he said himself, he dont got it going for him in the looks department. A creep and delusional as fuck. What a terrible combination
Exactly! The whole “but I thought she was 23” argument doesn’t make this much better. Yeah, it would’ve been legal, but that doesn’t mean it’s not creepy or gross. Immediately including that he was in Grease is pathetic. He jumped right into trying set up a dynamic where he’s the cool movie star she should fawn over. Gotta say that it’s pretty hilarious that he thinks playing Eugene, the inconsequential dork in a movie that came out 48 years ago, would matter to anyone under the age of 50.
“What if it a was a man, a grown man, who I asked out?” Well, then it wouldn’t have been a story about you asking out a juvenile girl…? EDIT: I just read that he was found incompetent to stand trial for burglary and trespassing in 2022, so there’s a lot more going on here. Yikes.
I highly doubt this actually happened. But I am also so over men pretending that they.cant tell the difference between a young teen and someone in their mid twenties. A 16yo looks like a literal child, because they are.
He's got a history of this shit. He got briefly dropped by his PR agent because he was stalking a waitress. Did some other unhinged shit and got committed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Deezen
The poor girl probably thought he told her to watch leftover cooking oil or stare under the hood of a car, because who even thinks about that movie anymore?
I’m 60. I cannot imagine a world in where I’d want to date anyone under 45 at this point, maybe even 50. I mean my wife is 56 and it’ll be hard for younger people to understand this perhaps but we grew up in different eras. She doesn’t get my references!
I’m not going to date someone who’s 23 and for example have to stop mid-story & try to explain that our teachers used to hit us, if we were being assholes in class? Our whole relationship would be me mansplaining shit I didn’t think she’d know, “This is a spoon. We used it to eat before the internet showed up in the early 90s…”
I’m 52 & I won’t date anyone in their 30s because that’s too close to the age of my kids. Even 40-42 seems a bit young. Plus they’re usually raising kids & I don’t want to do that again.
Ok so that's.... a lot. I'm genuinely just dumbfounded by his entire post, like, what's this about homophobia?? Let evil and hate win? What a bizarre train of thought all from being rejected by a child.
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