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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The movie was great, and I personally don't think Tonya knew the guy was going to physically hurt Nancy Kerrigan. Harding had a crazy life and I find her sympathetic.[/quote]

The movie wants her to be portrayed as the victim. It was a movie that is not set in reality of the actual events. Plenty of people have crappy lives and would not contribute to the assault of another human being. Hollywood movies manipulate the facts, your brain while they take in the cash.[/quote]

I think how some people like you are so bizarrely emphatic even years later that nothing about her life and situation can generate empathy. I feel like its so like...it was such an encapsulation of how we (American's) view the world.

Nancy was this good traditional hardworking elegant girl, and got the whole country behind her. And Tonya was a tough, poor, arguably far more hardworking considering what she was overcoming, crass girl who never learned how to be a good person but who wanted a different life for herself and fell victim to the habits her crappy life instilled in her. Nancy was always going to be fine. In another life she may or may not have won the gold but no matter what she was going to be fine. Tonya needed that gold to escape, so she behaved badly. And was very very thoroughly punished for it. And still 30 years later people are unable to find empathy  (which is not the same as forgiveness or acceptance) for her. Its amazing to me. [/quote]

Tonya chose to fight dirty.  No one made her to that, she chose to do that.  No one hates Tonya Harding for being poor, no one hates her for not having the best skating outfits that money can buy.  People dislike Tonya Harding because she chose to fight dirty.  When her goons tried to break Nancy Kerrigan's leg in order to give Harding a leg up (no pun intended) - that was just incredibly and blatantly wrong on so many levels.  Just think for a second who Harding was representing at the Olympics.....Was it herself?  Was it her ex husband or the hit man?  Was she there to say a big FU to her crappy mother?  No.

She was there to represent the USA and skate on our country's behalf.  If she had just done that and not attacked and eliminate her fellow American teammate maybe things would have gone a bit better for her.

No sympathy.  None.[/quote]

They hated her for all of those things before she chose to fight dirty. And that made hating her after much easier and more satisfying. She fought dirty because the country and her life had told her that the only person looking out for her was herself. And while what she did was wrong, she was right about that. No one was on Tonya's side except Tonya even BEFORE this happened.

You ask who she was representing at the Olympics and that shows a fundamental misunderstanding of people in her position. She was absolutely representing herself, her only chance. That gold medal wasn't for honor/glory, it was going to be freedom.

And once again I never said sympathy, I said empathy. They aren't the same thing.[/quote]

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