I know I’m wasting my time, but I just so tired of self righteous dipshits with this take any time Lennon is mentioned. You know how we know about any abuse? From Lennon himself in one of his later interviews. He admitted he had struck his first wife and felt terrible about it. Cynthia was asked about it and said yes, he did slap her once when they were young. She herself said it never happened again or she would have left. Lennon brought it up and criticized himself for it because it haunted him. Yes, he was also not a great father to his first son, Julian. He wasn’t around and paid much more attention to his second son who was born when he was older and not so distracted by fame and his career. People online now like to paint Lennon as a guy who beat both of his wives on a daily basis and kicked babies for fun. If you don’t like him and judge him, that’s totally valid, but don’t paint him out to be a fucking monster that deserved to be shot (yes, I realize this comment will be downvoted).
It’s just not worth engaging with anything on reddit about him. It’s hard to get more of a “I was a bad guy, now I’m trying to do right” statement than in “getting better”. Beatles fans will recognize the flaws, humanity, and genius. Most people just don’t think about it or care. It’s just popular on this site to drag him through the mud
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u/Sheniori 15d ago
Said the wife beater, diabled hater, cause of The (FUCKING) Beatles to break up. LOL. Get your heroes stright.