Apparently, We’re Now Supposed To Rip On People For What They DON’T Say, Too.

The Perpetually Outraged Brigade is at DefCon Level One, y’all.

According to the sourcelink, actor Alexander Skarsgard is in trouble with online Social Justice Warriors for stuff he DID NOT SAY in his acceptance speeches when he won awards for his performance in the HBO series Big Little Lies.

I don’t know if y’all watched the first season of Big Little Lies – I binge watched it soon after the season ended – and watched all 8? 9? episodes in one sitting. I didn’t love it, but I was intrigued enough to want to see how it all ended, particularly since when the first season aired, it did so without there being any expectation of a season 2. So I thought – Ok, this is a mini-series, and once it’s over, it’s over. And yeah – I watched it all.

Nicole Kidman played the wife of Alexander Skarsgard in the show, and if you didn’t see it, I’ll just summarize by saying they played a hugely dysfunctional couple who fought, violently, and ended up getting turned on by the violence, so that they were CONSTANTLY having really violent sex. It’s sick and twisted, and ultimately (WARNING SPOILER ALERT) Nicole left him after he nearly killed her, and then he died at the end of the season at the hands of her friends.

As far as acting performances go, I can see why he’s winning awards. He is really really good at playing a really really terrible person.

Anyway, he won a Golden Globe, a Critic’s Choice Award, an Emmy, and most recently the other night, a Screen Actors Guild Award.

But people on the interwebs are maaaaaaaaaaad at him, because he didn’t talk about domestic violence in any of his four acceptance speeches.

BEHOLD:

So this is where we are. Now we’ve got a bunch of people mad at an actor for not saying what THEY WANTED him to say during an acceptance speech for an acting award.

The dude performed. He did his job. And in addition to doing his job, he ALSO brought attention to the issue of domestic violence. He wore a Time’s Up pin to the Globes, said he was “shocked, humbled, incredibly embarrassed and infinitely grateful” to have won the awards he won, thanked the audience, and went about his day. He had no obligation or responsibility to say anything more. He didn’t have to “use the platform” to address domestic violence. Domestic violence got addressed in the show he performed in, which, by the way, he was also under no obligation to perform in at all.

If we’re seriously now going to criticize people for what they DID NOT SAY, then we’re officially off the rails.

Enough, social justice weirdos. Enough.