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So what? It's still vile and unacceptable victim-blaming, so stop excusing is at normal.
Yuzuru Hanyu announces divorce
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If this is anything like Diana, media will not likely back down so quickly. She was followed everywhere she went after the split.
I had no idea they were suffering so much. It's sad that they were not given the privacy he requested when he announced the marriage. And that they feel divorce, after 3 months, is the only way to get through it.
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Normal? I'm not saying his fans are normal.
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He still makes it clear he is not.
Thing is, it echoes something that happened to a classmate when he was young: the press got hold of her name and printed that they were involved, and that poor girl was again stalked, subject to abuse from those who hate and resent him, and couldn't leave her house. And they were both - the girl and Yuzuru - very young so it must have left scars.
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Thanks! I totally get that. Everyone deserves happiness. It's a shame that people in the limelight of any situation don't have the privacy that is so often taken for granted.
However, many celebrities know they are celebrities and understand what that entails in their respective culture/circles. It doesn't mean they deserve what happens to them by any means!
I find this situation very sad, but also very odd.
Yes, you married a prince so what did you expect...
You were a Beatle, being shot comes with territory, I guess.,..
What an awful thing to say .... although probably there were people who thought just that after Diana or John Lennon were killed....
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Very, very sad. The only silver lining I can hope for, is that Yuzuru is so well-known and generally respected (at least in Miyagi, but I think in all of Japan) that change in the current system (the level of harrassment/abuse that's allowed) will be called for, pushed, and eventually passed.
For the time being, one thing that anyone that's upset by this news can do, is not give the media gossip/scandal mongers the clicks, or one's money (magazines, newspapers). Boycott them. There'd still remain eager readers/watchers, but it could be a blow. There's also the mute button for preventing accidental clicks. (Or maybe I'm idealistic.)
Any individual that takes part in verbally harrassing a celebrity for having a personal life is not a fan, but a mentally ill person that needs therapy. Real fans care for their favorite athletes'/celebrities' well-being, not for their own fantasies that involve the object of their desire staying alone all their life, yikes. That's just sick in the head.
And does this behavior exist commonly? I don't know, I don't really follow pop culture, and I've never been to Japan, but, what I do know, is that a less famous skater got actually asked (publicly) if they went to their fav singer's concert alone, by one or more of their fans who help support them financially. So apparently some fans care a great deal about their favorites' private lives.
Nevertheless. My condolences to Yuzuru and his now ex-wife. I hope they can try and remarry again later, in hopefully a safer environment.
Crazies and stalkers need restraining orders and legal punishments to be deterred. Tabloid media... well, the more folk stop following those, the better. I wish they'd mostly starve out, then we'd hopefully see more celebrities / star athletes in better mental health, and actually able to have functional private lives.
For the time being, one thing that anyone that's upset by this news can do, is not give the media gossip/scandal mongers the clicks, or one's money (magazines, newspapers). Boycott them. There'd still remain eager readers/watchers, but it could be a blow. There's also the mute button for preventing accidental clicks. (Or maybe I'm idealistic.)
Any individual that takes part in verbally harrassing a celebrity for having a personal life is not a fan, but a mentally ill person that needs therapy. Real fans care for their favorite athletes'/celebrities' well-being, not for their own fantasies that involve the object of their desire staying alone all their life, yikes. That's just sick in the head.
And does this behavior exist commonly? I don't know, I don't really follow pop culture, and I've never been to Japan, but, what I do know, is that a less famous skater got actually asked (publicly) if they went to their fav singer's concert alone, by one or more of their fans who help support them financially. So apparently some fans care a great deal about their favorites' private lives.
Nevertheless. My condolences to Yuzuru and his now ex-wife. I hope they can try and remarry again later, in hopefully a safer environment.
Crazies and stalkers need restraining orders and legal punishments to be deterred. Tabloid media... well, the more folk stop following those, the better. I wish they'd mostly starve out, then we'd hopefully see more celebrities / star athletes in better mental health, and actually able to have functional private lives.
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@Magill please stop attacking everyone for their opinions and putting words in their mouths.
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She is right in one thing - those things were written and published by reporters and letters from the public at the time in even semi-respectable outlets. I remember. I saw them. And god knows what the nonspectable said and did. And the Japanese tabloids are even lower.
We know that press and public insanity have driven people to substance abuse, to illness and to suicide. Yuzuru has experience in its ugly side, and is probably thinking to save his partner from it before she gets hurt.
I'm not attacking anyone. I'm just saying there were probably many people who said that, don't you think that?
You could see it in the movies, people asking, how Diana could have actually expected any other treatment marrying into Royal family?
It comes from Netflix series "The Crown", and from British tabloids of the time, and many other sources, I think...
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The registry details have been confirmed officially.
Other than statements released by the "press" do we even have proof that there ever was a marriage? Nothing on who the bride was, not celebratory photos, etc...?
It's not unusual for Japanese to keep such things intensely private - Arakawa did, though even just after her OGM she wasn't subject to the pirahna frenzy of today.
Is Yuzuru's statement not enough?
Other than statements released by the "press" do we even have proof that there ever was a marriage? Nothing on who the bride was, no celebratory photos, announcements with details for the happy couple, etc...?
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Confirmed by whom? Is it public? Here in the US, everyone has access to those documents (i.e. properties, marriages, divorces, baptisms, etc.)
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I'm not aware of a statement from Hanyu himself. See my post above. Just wondered if there is any public official record.
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The registry at Sendai. It's not public information in Japan as I understand it.
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Other than statements released by the "press" do we even have proof that there ever was a marriage? Nothing on who the bride was, no celebratory photos, announcements with details for the happy couple, etc...?
I think that the official statement from Hanyu or his staff months back, is proof enough. Unless that official Twitter/X account was hacked repeatedly.
Considering this news, and how deranged some folk can be, it's very understandable why the identity of the lady was kept a secret.
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Ok, so no hard proof then. No actual photos of the marriage document(s)?
He announced his marriage in August, didn't he?
"I decided to enter the register... "
Why would anyone publish that? This is private.
Besides, why would anyone expect a "proof"?
