Real talk: Chris is a shitty person, largely because of things out of his control: His autism and the way he was raised, Barb, etc.
However, Chris isn’t remarkably bad. If you take a look around you, 3 out of 10 will be just as bad or worse. 5 out of 10 if you live in an asshole-rich constituency.
So why all the moralfagging about Chris? Why all the “OMG! He doesn’t like gay people! Probably a racist too!”?
It’s easier to justify if Chris is a bad person. It’s not alright to bully a sped, but bully a bully? That’s kind of warranted, no? Even a good thing!
So people play up how Chris is a huge homophobe and yada-yada. And everyone pretends to get outraged about a sped in the boondocks who sings funny ditties about them gays.
The whole CWCipedia exists as a sort of archive and analysis of Chris and why he is a shitty person. I think if you painstakingly went through each saga and read up on the e-mails, you wouldn't cast the blame so widely as to say it was the autism, the way he was raised and Borb. None of those helped mind you, and made things more difficult for sure, but let's be honest, Chris was given a great chance to socialize himself and even in his best environment (Manchester High), he showed to be entitled, narcissistic and prone to petty anger. Did Wes Iseli for example do anything to be declared his rival? Did Chris really deserve that artistic award instead of someone else to point of running off stage crying? Were all Males truly JERKS? Even his fellow waterboy, the Basketball team, and all his male mentors?
I get it we all make socially awkward mistakes at times, but Chris made some doosies and kept that mentality his whole life.
As for the 3/10 thing, I think that's optimistic. I'll throw him a bone even and say that when he was in High School, if he cleaned up his appearance, could have been a 5 or a 6. But his SMV drops when you add in the weight, his childish personality, his inability to generate an independent income, his muscular atrophy, his social awkwardness, his fashion choices, and lack of hygiene that drops all the way down to a 1.5/10. Why .5? Because Chris Chan has Chad-tier self-confidence the likes of which I am envious of that women love. He even haggled with a prostitute using the fact he gets trolled on the internet as a reason why she should give him a discount. No fear.
Tranny Chris though is like a 0.5/10 though. For the same reason I wouldn't want to stick my dick in JesuOtaku. No one wants to fuck a tranny unless that tranny is famous, and even then, probably not.
You bring up a couple of good points here.
First off, I don’t think Bob was all that much of a disciplinarian. With the wealth of information we have on Chris, we only saw Bob acting with any sort of (reluctant) authority twice.
Think about all of the other times Chris was doing weird shit in his room, all of the times he was screaming like a banshee at the trolls, and all of the times Chris got in trouble with the authorities. Not once have we ever seen any evidence that Bob made an attempt to straighten Chris out.
So, yeah, I think Bob has the distinction of being the second-worst parent in the Chandler household. The problem is that Barb set the bar so low that it’s not really all that much of an accomplishment.
I can remember another time, actually a couple times, that Chris' parents got involved in his life .
> Garnishing Chris' tugboat to pay off credit card bills
> Restricting Chris from something or making him do something because of stealing from Barb.
> Telling Clyde to stay out of their family's business, screening troll calls
> Probably the only other example of actual parenting. Telling Chris to just walk away, a couple times, from the Liquid Chris saga. In both the SHOWDOWN call and the Kacey-Liquid call, Chris' parents tell him to let it go and he insists on jumping right in.
Sure, there isn't another example of Bob basically telling Chris to grow up, but I don't think they understood the internet, nor the gravity some of this online bullshit meant to Chris.
Is anyone really taking Chris seriously besides nutjobs like Sockness? Even some of the people who make fan art still use male pronouns when talking about him behind his back.
Then why get mad at him? Why care at all whether he's happy or not?
And that's exactly my point. There are so many infinitely worse people on this site who have even less excuses than he does.
I actually want Chris to live a life well into his 50's and 60's because I legit find him interesting and funny. He's a walking case study for:
- Narcissitic Parenting
- Autism
- Mass Media and the effects it has
- Whether or not anime will make someone more likely to go trans
- Why someone will go trans
- Moobs and why some men get them
- Too much pornography and how it changes our perception of male/female dynamics in society
- Being trolled into becoming trans
- Whether or not Universal Suffrage is a good thing.
- Meta art
- How a terrible story can be reinterpreted and remade to create something interesting.
And so much more. Trans Chris is retarded Chris. Classic Chris at least had some sort of drive to work in an office all day producing Sonichu while Crystal watched. As he descended into trannydom, he wanted to be a stay at home dad and then a stay at home mom. Now he just wants money to buy toys so he can go to the cons will all the other geeks and show off his junk while waiting for the dimension merge. He blows raspberries in court and hosts McDonalds dinner parties with his OCs. He either needs to be trolled back to reality or somehow figure out himself that when Barb dies, we get the psych ward saga and how the police pulling him out of 14 Branchland were recording his screams.