Talk:John Bender/@comment-71.218.6.238-20190318201110/@comment-72.224.249.153-20190419183711

This is why it breaks my heart when Vernon gets physical, threatens him, and puts him down. He betrays Bender in the worst way. He is supposed to protect him, much like his dad was supposed to, but he's just like him. I cried when I watched that scene in the closet again; he's just a boy being put down and hurt by older men who are supposed to be his role models. I know he's a 25 year old for real, but like the characters of Dick and his father, they forget by the way he looks and acts that he's just a boy and treat him as a threat to their own authority and manhood. It's terrible.