Some of the responses I’ve seen to Eddie Diaz’s latest reference to being a veteran have reminded me of the bootlicking (and also misogynistic) tendencies in the 911 show/fandom. 911 really is out here appealing to the conservative crowd and it shows. That realization inspired the following.
Here is a list of things the show/fandom ignores or romanticizes about Eddie, in part, I imagine, because he's played by a hot dude in a popular ship:
- he enlisted in the army to fight in a foreign war despite that meant he would be leaving his disabled infant to be cared for by his (at the time teenaged) wife
- he makes decisions about Chris without including him or informing important parties (for example giving Buck guardianship upon his death without asking if Buck agreed to do so first)
- he joined an illegal fight club and nearly killed someone
- he impulse bought a house in Texas and then he changed his mind and moved Chris back to LA shortly after and who knows what happened to the house
- he cheated on his girlfriend
- he has stayed in relationships with girlfriends that he doesn’t love but continues to use these women for free child care
- he continues to work a job with insane hours despite the fact that he cannot independently manage Chris's care (Bobby and Buck jumping in to the rescue is very sweet but not a sign of Eddie's prowess as a dad)
- he is hostile to his parents for wanting to have a relationship with Chris
- when Chris started showing signs of treating girls poorly, he pushed the duty to have the hard conversation onto someone else, despite the fact that this may partially be learned behavior from his own role modeling to his son about how to treat women
- he refused to let the mother of his child see her son because she left, despite the fact that he also left them alone years prior
- he has made people move out of his house after they take the immense effort to move in (both Buck and Marisol have gotten this treatment)
