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Originally posted by docetboy
Why do we care about celebrities so much!!!!???? Sure, what Kobe did was terrible, but you have to realize there have been 100 men probably since him charged on similar circumstances that noone cares about, though what they did was just as bad or worse...
Just food for thought.
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That's just the way our society works. Kobe was a role model for people, those "100's of other people" weren't projecting the same image that Kobe Bryant was probably. Therefore you can't compare the two.
Also, everyone needs role models, I'm not saying that they should necessarily be celebrities but it's easy for people to use them as role models b/c we only know stuff about them that they feel we should know. Little kids especially look up to him. He had a certain image to maintain, he knew that, we knew that, everyone did and he blew that. Whether or not he actually raped this girl, just the fact that he cheated on his wife ruins his reputation IMO. I don't care what people I don't know do, personally, but I don't want to hear him or his reps claiming that he's still basketballs "golden boy" so to speak, because now we know he's just human. That's life. But its sad because little kids out there who don't know any better and thought he was larger than life are now probably really dissapointed b/c he's in trouble. Who knows?
