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On March 21, Brazilian soccer player Jorginho released a statement on his Instagram accusing Chappell Roan of sending her bodyguard to berate his 11-year-old daughter, after she merely walked by Roan\u2019s table at a hotel breakfast and smiled.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Immediately, the internet was outraged. Roan, infamous for talking back to paparazzi and setting \u201cboundaries\u201d with fans, was painted as a child-hating bitch. Fans of Roan called her detractors misogynistic or homophobic. Roan asserted that the security guard was not hers, but the damage was done. I ask the people: Why should we care?<\/p>\n
The times have shifted when it comes to celebrities. Perhaps influenced by Tumblr\u2019s infamous \u201cYour Fav Is Problematic\u201d blog, which chronicled every instance a certain celebrity was racist, homophobic, transphobic, sexist, etc., we have begun to expect celebrities to be our close confidants and friends. It\u2019s not asinine to expect a celebrity to have decent morals when it comes to marginalized groups; but this thinking has evolved. We now expect them to be kind, gentle and caring people that we ourselves would want in our personal lives. We want them to take pictures with us and let those pictures start a friendship. We want them to agree with us on our favorite colors and our favorite animals. If they don\u2019t, something\u2019s wrong with them. Let\u2019s remove their music from Spotify in protest!<\/p>\n
Take Doechii\u2019s recent comments on cats. The Grammy award-winning rapper said that cats \u201cgenuinely aren\u2019t friendly animals,\u201d and people were up in arms. Doechii was called a misogynist and was even told she doesn\u2019t care about consent, all because she called cats unfriendly. Meanwhile, these comments fell on deaf ears. Someone with the wealth and access that Doechii has won\u2019t release a statement groveling on their hands and knees for disliking cats. Really, no one should. Yet, we have begun to expect this from the artists whose work we adore.<\/p>\n
We simply know too much about celebrities, and that makes us forget that they are not like us. Because we see their funny TikToks and their \u201crelatable\u201d interviews on podcasts, we feel a kinship with famous people, even though there is none. We see the celebrity-fan relationship as two-sided \u2014 where they must respond to our overzealous outpourings of love in equal magnitude \u2014 but this simply isn\u2019t reality. Celebrities provide us with art and entertainment. We provide them with money. That\u2019s all there is to it, and expecting anything else gets us into deranged states of mind.<\/p>\n
The existence of \u201cfan-wars\u201d is an example of the ridiculous lengths we have gone to uplift our favorite celebrities and downplay our least favorites. When Roan was put on blast recently, \u201cstans\u201d of other artists began posting pictures of their idols with children to show that they\u2019re better and kinder than Roan. Isolated moments were used to illustrate everything about these people\u2019s characters. This is an incredibly tame example, too. In Lana del Rey and Ethel Cain\u2019s now-famous beef, fans of del Rey often threw transmisogynistic attacks at Cain and her fans, in a twisted attempt to defend del Rey from Cain\u2019s alleged abuse \u2014 that is, a tweet in which Cain posted lyrics from one of del Rey\u2019s songs with a GIF from Family Guy underneath.<\/p>\n
To prove our love for these celebrities, we\u2019ve gone into psychosis. We attack our fellow people with anything from petty insults to full-on slurs, because we want to show our loyalty to people that don\u2019t know we exist. We spend our precious hours with our thumbs furiously typing the next offense, because we won\u2019t let celebrities just be celebrities.<\/p>\n
One of the biggest controversies that Roan has faced came from her comments on the \u201cCall Her Daddy\u201d podcast, in which she said people should stop looking to celebrities for all the answers about what\u2019s happening in the world. She\u2019s not wrong. Celebrities are inherently out of touch. We can\u2019t look to them to be our heroes and activists, because most of them would glare at us on the street for asking for a picture. And when we do look to them for our political ideals, do we forget the communities we\u2019re meant to be supporting along the way? Is reposting wealthy celebrities\u2019 Instagram posts more important?<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t mean to say we should \u201cseparate the art from the artist.\u201d This phrase, often used to defend abusive men in Hollywood and the music industry, goes against my own morals; I will not financially support someone who is abusive, someone who\u2019s racist, who supports conversion therapy. Roan and Doechii, to my knowledge, are none of these things. I disagree with Doechii\u2019s stance on cats, but I will still blast \u201cALTEREGO\u201d at a pregame. I think kindness towards children is one of the most important forms of kindness there is, but \u201cI heard you like magic \/ I got a wand and a rabbit\u201d will always be an iconic lyric.<\/p>\n
I believe we have more important things to worry about. Instead of feigning concern about how a celebrity is acting on a day-to-day basis, we should think about how we interact with the people around us. We should move through the world with kindness and empathy, not with biting insults towards strangers online because they don\u2019t like our favorite singer. The more we view our peers as the celebrities they do or do not endorse, the more we chip away at the very social connections that keep us alive.<\/p>\n
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