sure sounded like you were specifically talking about the kids (now adults), who'd filed a suit against the MJ estate. Not their parents.
That's what it 'sounded' like to you. That doesn't mean you're right.
And based on what everyone else is saying about the documentary, yourself included, it is a rather miserable and traumatising experience.
Honestly, I have enough of that in my life already. I don't need more misery especially in relation to crimes allegedly perpetrated by a man who is no longer a threat, real or otherwise, to anyone anymore.
You and others want me to see the documentary, but tell me, what do I benefit from doing so? Just hearing about the frickin thing has already brought me down enough.
I can't stop abuse that allegedly took place thirty years ago, so what possible good can this documentary do for you, me, or anyone else?
I'm more concerned about ongoing or potential future abuse, or even bringing living people to justice, rather than talking about a man who died ten years ago and was exonerated by the justice system during his lifetime.
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Catbookss (13664)
6 years ago
I don't understand why you'd say that about the parents, when they're not making a single dime, nor asking anyone for one.
Traumatising is a bit too strong a word, but it's not too far off.
I didn't say anything about wanting you to see it. In fact, knowing what I know about you learned over the past day or two, I'd suggest you do NOT see it.
What I did say is you can't speak much about it, given you haven't seen it, and that is the simple truth.
What good it's doing is bringing pedophilia to the forefront, and how this could have happened and continued to happen. The dangers of fandom, and how in this case it essentially groomed all of us. We were all too willing to look the other way, buy that he was this gentle, loving soul that was so innocent and looooved children because they are innocent.To write off his bizarre behaviours as harmless eccentricities.
It's also a very important part of the healing process for these two victims. There have to be more out there, and this will be healing for them too, as well as anyone who has suffered or is suffering from being molested.
It shows parents what to watch out for, so they won't be seduced like these parents were.
It also shows -- once again -- the fallibility of the justice system, the same as the OJ Simpson trial (and many others) did.
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6 years ago
"I didn't say anything about wanting you to see it. In fact, knowing what I know about you learned over the past day or two, I'd suggest you do NOT see it."
What's that supposed to mean?
"What I did say is you can't speak much about it, given you haven't seen it, and that is the simple truth."
This is unfair. You're advising me NOT to see it, but you're also limiting my right to an opinion.
And you still haven't addressed the difficult question of how pop culture can often be an escape from individuals to escape their own experiences of trauma and abuse. How do you resolve that one? How does robbing people of that catharsis help the majority? Or does the majority not count? Just the parents who were stupid enough to turn a blind eye to the alleged abuse they supposedly subjected their own children to? The rest of us have to suffer for their gross negligence towards their own children?
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