If there is any depressingly corroded silver lining to these celebrity stalking stories, it is the opportunity provided criminologists to remind us of just how high the stalking of the non-fabulous remains in the nation—leading perhaps to an Us Weekly theory of stalker fascination: Celebrities are “just like us” (and we’re “just like them”) because now anyone can have a creepy weirdo initiate a wholly delusional relationship over a period of months and years.
Jeffrey Sconce on why we are all stalkers now, even if we only stalk ourselves.
