To further on Yamer's hockey analogy, I've been in that situation - I once tried to get a guy to leave a group with a light push on the shoulder, wouldn't even qualify as a shove, in a context where that would normally just be interpreted as totally harmless and laughed off. He'd hit me twice before I realized what was even going on. I basically just noped, didn't even have the wherewithal to get my bearings to fight back. No one did anything but look shocked and he walked out totally unmolested, because everyone else was just as surprised as I was.
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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Just in case anyone was still in doubt of the toxic entitlement of celebrity culture. Any regular person who walked up on stage and struck a celebrity would be hauled away and eating pavement so fast it would make your head spin. But an A-lister does it and he gets rousing applause from his peers when he accepts an award half an hour later
The fact this most unequal, entitled, narcissistic industry on the planet feels it’s their job the lecture the rest of us on public morality is nauseating.
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Well, I can totally understand everyone having no idea what to do when this totally unexpected behaviour happened in this setting - do we screw up our TV show by having the guy hauled off? Well, he seems to have calmed down now and is back to his seat... do we talk about it? Do we just go on with the show? There's millions of people watching. What the hell just happened?
So yeah... I get not hauling him away. It's the reaction to the speech that's the epitome of what people hate about celebrities.
This dude tries to justify his embarrassing outburst by crying, trying to cast himself as a victim, declaring himself to be a God-given "vessel for love" in the most self-aggrandizing, tone-deaf way, completely gaslighting everyone about him being a "protector" and "all about family" rather than just a spoiled child who can't handle his emotions, and... it WORKS for this audience? His millionaire acquaintances just... cheer and applaud endlessly? He should have been laughed out of the building. It was absurd, but totally expected, because an ego like that is fragile and must be coddled and have its self-certainty in its own amazingness reinforced. Really pretty gross to watch, and the utter lack of any apparent understanding of what it looked like to most of the people watching at home... yeesh.