[Locke]

Y'know, I'm not a defender of the man but I do find it funny how fickle and easily swayed audiences are.

It's always blown my mind that guys like Mark Whalberg or Downey JR are allowed the careers they have, and the millions they make, despite the pasts they have had. Why should they be forgiven?

Likewise it sounds like JDF is a total dick, and everyone is rallying against him but I almost feel like saying 'who cares?'. I've gotten angry at him at this shit too before I realised that his personal life is none of my business and if you expect the character and the actor to be the same person then you're bound to be disappointed.

And sure he talks a lot of shit, but what celebrity doesn't? Every celebrity strokes and promotes that is just what they do, some are certainly more subtle and generally better than JDF at it but I think considering he's never blinded a veteran or had the police chase him across the state in a drug fuelled haze he's not worth raging over.

And maybe this acceptance that this is "just how it is" is actually the whole problem here but I'm not going to be able to change that.