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champagnepodiums · 10 months

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I agree with your last anon about this perpetual victim complex surrounding Daniel (it was going on before DTS was even a thing, but it is nice to see other people finally catching on). But I think the ONE thing that really bugs me about it is how fast his fans will use that victim complex to excuse actual problematic behavior that should be acknowledged.

Take, for example, the problematic podcast he went on last year and chose to be misogynistic on. And I'm not even necessarily saying like OH MY GOD WE MUST OSTRACIZE DANIEL FROM F1, HE'S THE WORST PERSON IN EXISTENCE because like, F1 and motorsport in general is full of privileged men. most of them have said/done something misogynistic in their pasts. yet the thing that blew me away was there were posts that garnered just as much agreeing notes/attention as the ones talking about why Daniel's behavior was wrong, that were basically excusing his behavior because "he's been in motorsports his whole life, he's never communicated with women outside his mother and his younger girlfriend, nobody ever taught him how to respect women." like, besties, respectfully, W H A T? there's been 20-somethings in F1 that have faced (deservedly so) harsher criticisms for being a lot less problematic than daniel was in that instance, yet a 33-year-old (at that time) man gets a free pass because apparently he needs someone to hold his hand and tell him women are people worthy of respect too?

It sucks because despite all of his faults, there was a point in time I actually did like him. But it also seems like I watched a lot of the drivers that were also around when I first started watching F1 — take Lewis and Seb for example, actually grow up and at least try to stand for something instead of keeping so much of the "it's a men's world" mentality that was around back then. Daniel's gotten older now too, and doesn't really seem to stand for or represent anything other than like, still giving off that Frat Boy Attending His First College Party vibe. which i guess i can understand why that might appeal to some people, but it mostly just gives me the ick and I'm certainly not going out of my way to defend someone's problematic behaviors when they've decided that's essentially going to be their entire public persona: Not giving a single damn about ANYTHING that actually matters, just radiating cool vibes or whatever. It just gets kind of old and cringy the older he gets and still tries to maintain the maturity level of like, an 18 year old if I'm being completely honest.

To be fair, I do think every driver fanbase does their own handholding when drivers do/say questionable things so it's not like he's really That Special in that regard but it does feel like DR3 fans are the first to make noise about what other drivers are doing... Maybe it's just my experience but yeah.

Daniel not maturing at all and now being in his mid-30s acting like he's a decade younger is just not cute to me? Idk but yeah.

#I'm sure this is going to piss people off but like #anon is not wrong #if it makes you mad pls go talk to a wall because I can't even

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