There is no rule that it comes with the territory. We have as a society decided that it comes with the territory because we love to tear people down. The right to criticize is a huge part of what the founding fathers wanted for their new country. With free speech you have to take the good with the bad, and unfortuately celebrity gossip is the bad. Just because you can doesn't mean you should. Just because you have a bazillion hits doesn't make it right. Just because others do it doesn't make it right. I used to write a ton of celebrity stuff on this site and they were hugely successful - I made $84 in one day off a single post (that was a lot back then) and crashed the site because of the traffic to this post. Nick even wanted to make me the Celebrity Gossip writer and put my posts on the front page. But at the end of the day I felt bad - the people I was writing about were mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, daughters and sons. Trashing them (I did semi-witty bytes that poked fun at their escapades and behaviors) just wasn't what I believed a good writer would do - I was doing it for the money. I ended up quitting that stuff and feel much better about myself because of it. I make a pentenance of what I did before. Perez survived off of shock and did it at others expense. While violence should never be the answer, when you purposely try to think of the most hateful word you can think of to hurt some else (his own words - not mine) nothing good is going to come out of it. Fergie confronted him as is her right (somehow critics believe they are above criticism themselves or get offended when it happens). Given all that happen, even though she was nowhere to be found when the incident happened and after planning his little weeping speech, he threw a verbal jab at her because that is what he does. At what point do you make this transition from a private to a public citizen. Is it when you make a movie or when you step outside your house and no longer have any reasonable expectation of privacy? And yes since you are now an author you have put yourself out there so others can openly criticize you as much as they want as long as they don't cross libel or slander lines. Visit my homepage here