how the media promoted/still promotes Sid Vicious:
"spoiled brat, misogynist, violent, attention whore, unintelligent junkie"
who Sid Vicious really was:
born Simon John Ritchie to an abusive, drug addicted mother, his only best friend was John Lydon who would become Johnny Rotten and form the band with him called The Sex Pistols, Simon only became Sid Vicious to make John happy because he wanted his musical career to be successful, he and Johnny based their character personas off of Alice Cooper, they wanted to be seen as performers, for them it was for fun and fame and money, his girlfriend was an abusive asshole named nancy, the media likes to paint her as a victim, in reality, Sid got beat up a lot by her and by other people growing up, he never knew his father, his mother tried to get him to use drugs when he was young, nancy the bitch got him hooked on drugs, he wanted to get off/get sober, the media blames the bitch's death on him yet he didn't have a violent bone in his body, he was knocked out unconscious when she was stabbed by her drug dealer, the media assumed he did it, eventually after a proper investigation done by the police, Sid/Simon was a free man, he and Johnny broke up The Sex Pistols so Sid/Simon could get sober and away from the music business, Johnny would continue on to be a musician but would end up forming a new wave band called Public Image Limited, Sid/Simon died at the age of 23 from a heroin overdose, his mother admitted that she shot him up in his sleep, his mother technically killed him, she got no prison time, the man was just a boy who had his life ripped away from him
I could go on about this shit and double standards sexism towards men but I digress
