Love & Passion Quote by Pat Brown

Pat Brown’s line lands like a corrective to the lurid shorthand that pop culture has trained us to expect. It pushes back on the lazy, almost pornographic framing of serial murder as an extreme form of sexuality, swapping it for something colder: domination. The phrasing “not about sex at all” is absolute on purpose. It’s a rhetorical slap at a media ecosystem that packages killers as twisted romantics or deviant seducers because that story is easier to sell than the banal mechanics of coercion.

Power, control, revenge: three blunt nouns that map neatly onto the audience’s appetite for motive, while also indicting the audience’s society-first framing. “Revenge on society” enlarges the target from individual victims to a faceless collective, which mirrors how these crimes are often narrated: not just as personal violence, but as a rupture in the social contract. It also hints at the killer’s self-mythology. Serial offenders frequently construct a fantasy of grievance and entitlement; calling it “revenge” exposes the emotional logic without granting it dignity.

The context here is an entertainer commenting in a culture saturated with true crime, where sex sells and psychosexual explanations let viewers keep a comfortable distance: those monsters are “different.” Brown’s intent is to drag the conversation back to something uncomfortably familiar. Power and control aren’t exotic. They’re the same engines behind domestic abuse, harassment, and institutional violence. The quote works because it doesn’t just diagnose a criminal pathology; it critiques the stories we prefer to tell about it, and why.