Short answer, no.
Long answer, fuck no. Just like Snorlax he was negligent at best and abusive at worst. One thing people on the Farms seem to miss is that he was still a shitty parent- he just wasn't as shitty as Barb so he gets off lightly with things. Bob was still an aging redneck and the fact none of his other kids wanted anything to do with him speaks volumes.
Why was he a shitty parent? In what ways?
Supervise him? Hell no. Moving the PS3 out of Chris's fortress of solitude would have been a small action to take and protected Chris a bit more though.
Why would Bob have to supervise Chris on the PS3? Chris didn't have problems with the internet, as far as Bob could tell. Internet harassment, to Bob, sounds as ridiculous as penpal harassment.
The people harassing the Chandlers were a bunch of hateful assholes at the game place, who like to pick on retarded kids for their own amusement; again, this was only as far as Bob could tell.
Call Bob racist, homophobic, transmisogynistic or whatever you 21st centurians like to say these days. But Chris really isn't that racist. CWCki has run with that narrative ever since he said he didn't want to date black girls, which always bothered me because personal preferences in dating is someone everyone, even Chris, should be entitled to. He called Tito a nigger once, but that was one rare instance.
Oh, absolutely. So, first of all, Chris was very, very uncomfortable with saying the word "nigger". The idea of saying it was so offensive to Chris that when forced to, he munged it to "niggo". Not out of any genuine concern for other people, just because he knew it was a very big "no no word", like a small child might understand. He later started saying nigger after we normalized it with him.
And yeah, a gay man isn't sexist for finding women unattractive.
Bob is the one who told Chris not to get a job because he would get more money by collecting benefits (totally untrue, as it were). Big mistake, really robbed Chris of continued social interaction after his education ended.
Chris wouldn't maintain a job at the time. So sure, three months on minimum wage with enough hours is more than three months of a tugboat. But not if those three months are scattered throughout a year, and compared to a full year of tugboat.
One thing he got right was getting the
set up, and setting aside some money before he kicked the bucket. Which Barb then idiotically squandered on a doomed legal defense that would have had the same outcome with a public defender or one of those $5K flat fee criminal defense guys in the yellow pages.
That money could've gone to supporting Chris after Barb kicked it. But why would Barb care about Chris' future?
