By 2009 we had already seen public celebrity breakdowns like Britney Spears induced by the media. I think around then was when we really started to feel guilty for the way celebrities were being treated by the press.

It is kind of difficult watching that music video now. Not just because Jackson was as predatory in real life as he was in the video, but because the director murdered three people and gave us Max Landis.

Barrie was a pedophile? I only know that the guy who wrote Alice in Wonderland probably was.

I’d have no problem with that. I’m Jewish and I do think left wing discourse about Israel tends to lapse into anti-semitism. That said, the attack on Omar was clearly in bad faith. This wouldn’t have happened if she was a white Republican man.

Why does her being pregnant matter? She clearly was well enough to attend the vigil.

The main reason centrists hate Trump is because he isn’t “civil”. Crimes against humanity are fine but just be polite about it.

You want LGBT people to yell at a Muslim girl because she accosted a rich straight white lady?

How was she inadvertently quoting the Protocols of Zion? There is a lot of money involved when it comes to Israel and there are powerful groups that lobby for it.

She’s pregnant not dying. Stop perpetuating the idea that pregnant women are delicate flowers.

She was most certainly not white trash.

Centrism isn’t going to do jack shit about babies in cages.

Oh yeah, they can be horrifying. But it’s still kind of ableist.

There’s this awful online meme about harlequin-type ichthyosis babies being scary and how you shouldn’t google them. And some of them are a bit chilling to look at, especially the ones who aren’t going to make it, but the fact that people can survive the condition is what makes it such a cruel thing to say.

It was when she went on vacation with Mary Anne and Mallory. And yeah, the books could be kind of fucked up. Like how Stacey’s diabetes was treated as if she had AIDS. There was one BSC book about an autistic girl that really scared me when I was nine. I guess it didn’t explain the condition so well because it made me…

There was also one where she had a crush on a 17 year old lifeguard. Obviously it was just a crush, but the way she acted was always weirdly adult, or at least what a 13 year old who thought they of themselves as more mature would. 

I agree. I do think he was abused but that’s still no excuse.

Oh yeah, it’s still a shitty excuse. I’m just saying I think most kids would rather have the dull childhood than the one Jackson had.

Yeah, but I doubt it was much fun for Jackson. Especially with that father...

The “he didn’t have a childhood” excuse is stupid, but I really do wonder what happened to him as a kid.

Even with the kids he just hung out with, there was a really inappropriate element to the relationship. It was like he sought out the most vulnerable child stars. Like Corey Feldman or Macauley Culkin. Boys who lacked positive father figures. He befriended Sean Lennon after his dad was killed. I’m not saying he was…