Funny I watched both episodes yesterday and he does come out a great guy.
Hope nobody finds it offensive I don't mean anything bad by it but I do feel some people tread or tip toe around these issues and watching it actually made me angry at how it was all just kind of skirted around with kid gloves.
While I sympathize with all communities and I understand how some struggle and how some tend to live there lives or not live it's quite sad and my heart goes out to those and I wish they just had the strength to be who they are and to hell with everyone. We only get one life.
Now having said that I felt it tippy toed around just how vile what the cat fisher did was. Yes they explained it but I'm also aware we shouldn't put more hate on any communities but if you tell it you need to tell it right. Yes I get the struggles but Teo didn't have those struggles. Was he dumb yes or perhaps less harsh over trusting yes. Teo though should not have been a part of her struggles. Her catfishing cost him his career his mind his love of football almost his sanity. The documentary almost made them both out to be victims and while in different ways both are not here. From Teos perspective he had the world at his feet and it was taken from him because of someone else's cruelty and there struggles. If I'm an alcoholic and I hit someone with my car there are consequences now if I do it with intent the consequences are that much more harsh.
What she went through and most trans go through is painful I had a trans young man work for me at a deli I owned and it pained me to here his stories he was only 17. So I get it but in this case her struggles were used maliciously and while he was very forgiving there was no need for him to go through that. We can't make our problems or issues everyone else's. She intentionally decided him but the way and the actions taken were pretty cruel let alone the loss of everything he had worked so hard for. I just found it as per usual in today's society media they skirted around a lot of it like they were both victims and they weren't.
In general trans gay even race yes the struggles are real and they should be brought to light and we need to do better as a society. Each individual that goes through these struggles is sad but to do what she did was very vile. What would of happened had he done something like take his own life. A lesser person might have done just that. He felt he let down his family, he was ridiculed, he lost his draft position, he lost someone he thought he had feelings for, he lost millions, he was put on blast on TV as being a liar, his sexuality in doubt everywhere, and he lost football/his ability to play the game yet he pushed through. Basically in this case he is the victim and the hero and she is the villain. Without having a face to face discussion it's hard to address this but she I feel hurt her own community. Even when she knew what she was doing was vile she kept doing it.
This was truly sad I give Teo props for the person he is. I wasn't really buying her remorse. I felt like she almost felt entitled to do what she did and that's sad for the ones that really struggle and go through that change but go about it without ruining other people's lives. I hope everyone understands where this is coming from hope it was delivered properly. Human beings are flawed yes but for the most part you love them all doesn't matter sexual orientation race thin heavy man woman trans but regardless where you fall in those being different doesn't give you the right or a free pass to get away with doing bad things to others. I guess that's my point.
