I don’t talk about personal stuff on this newsletter very often, but I’ve mentioned a few times that I have a child with special needs. My oldest boy is the light of my life and I’m grateful every day that I’ve been given the privilege of being his father.
I have another son who is neurotypical, and when he was born a couple of years afterward, I’m pretty sure I told friends and family that he was a “healthy baby boy.”
By Buzzfeed standards, this makes me a terrible person:
I can indeed see how this might rub you the wrong way, if your brain is so fried by owning teh outgroup on social media that you interpret even the most innocuous post in the worst, most bad-faith way possible.
Pratt’s religious beliefs and (allegedly) conservative politics have made him an acceptable target in some corners of the Buzzfeedosphere, kind of like how Sarah Palin’s family was subjected to some truly unconscionable personal attacks, including conspiracy theories about the parentage of her youngest child. (God knows I’m no Sarah Palin fan - after seeing her on the campaign trail for a couple of days, I decided to support Obama - but I have never seen so many purportedly mainstream, respected commentators sink as low as they did when she was at the height of her popularity.)
Ben Dreyfuss, who knows what it is like to have a famous parent, wonders how this exceptionally stupid controversy will affect Pratt and Faris’ son:
If you want to be crazy and believe that no one ever just says something without it being vetted by their personal legal department, that’s your right, but this is a common thing on the internet. Twitter is a place where Occam doesn’t have a razor and if he did, he’d be planning something devious with it.
Which is more likely: that the husband wrote a nice post about his wife and used a common term to describe his new baby or that the devious sociopath intentionally ridiculed his disabled son just to hurt his ex-wife?
It is technically possible that the second one is true. It is technically possible that Chris Pratt is a serial killer too. It’s technically possible that he is responsible for dozens of unaccounted missing persons across the midwest. Is it likely? No.
So this would seem like just another instance of a bunch of dumb internet sleuths drumming up drama because they have internet poisoning, which, fine. But actually, it’s worse than that!
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