I blew up at someone on here who shared a story about how he hated Andre the Giant after he saw him be rude to a kid asking for an autograph - in a thread where we were talking about how he spent his life in constant chronic pain It still pisses me offhttps://twitter.com/PennyRed/status/1364291178225496064?s=19 …
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And some of them take away from this that every single celebrity is a brat and none of them deserve to be where they are and you should feel good about sharing hot goss and smears about them and cheering their inevitable downfall
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Not that the standards they are describing are impossible for any human being to live by - even if you were an android programmed to NEVER be anything but utterly gracious in public, you couldn't control how people interpret your behavior
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Like practicing your judgmental bully skills against a big fat easy target somehow changes the nature of what you're doing, like it doesn't give me a reason to distrust you or think you enjoy ripping into less-famous targets in more-private venues
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(I've never met someone addicted to celebrity gossip who didn't transition to non-celebrity gossip about people they actually knew as soon as they felt safe doing so)
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And look I dunno man We all talk shit about people as part of our primate brains seeking reinforcement of community norms Whatever But there's a difference between discussing actual abuse and people being imperfect and human
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People are allowed to be in bad moods and behave unprofessionally sometimes People are allowed to be mean sometimes, and snap at people, or be blunt about their unhappiness You don't have to like it but you don't have license to destroy someone over it
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Especially not a *little kid*, jfc Or a teenager, or a new mom who's endured constant harassment since she was a teenager, or a disabled man in chronic pain from both a genetic condition and accumulated injuries from his career
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This is not holding people accountable for abuse In fact by blurring the line between normal human unpleasantness and abuse you give tremendous cover to real abusers - "This is just more Hollywood gossip trying to take down celebrities! You don't listen to that crap, do you?"
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huh it's almost like celebs are people Or, to quote a certain magazine's ethos, "they're just like Us"
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I have, in fact, heard plenty of stories about Keanu Reeves acting like a jerk in restaurants and shit - I have no more and no less reason to believe them than rando stories about every other celebrity - and they only stopped when it became trendy to stan him as perfect
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