If I didn’t know someone personally who was groomed & sexually abused repeatedly as a child, who didn’t come forward till his late 20s and whose journey mimics both Robson’s and Safechuck’s so so eerily similar, I think I would have a very difficult time letting go of that deep, childhood nostalgia for both Kelly and…

Good for Prince William for working on it! (Side note: I followed the link and would argue this characterization is unfair, sounds like he’s trying to get better, not just playing incompetent dad.)

And who is this woman who managed to successfully LIE about being raped by a celebrity and then cash in on it?

“...and if you get any traction from that, if you’re able to write a book from that, get a reality show from that...”

He flat out denies that he’s had sex with anyone under the age of 17

I know you mean well, and I don’t want to be a prickly jerk (and I am sensitive about this), but this really bothers me:

The 2015 study cited interviewed staff from 53 hospitals and did site visits to eleven hospitals. They were looking at which factors affected the C-section rate at EACH hospital. So some hospitals have C-section rates as low as 7% of their patients. Other hospitals had C-section rates as high as 70% of their patients.

This is what I thought as well. Jackson deliberately drove a wedge between those men and their mothers while promoting himself as their sole love object. That went on for years, and it doesn’t vanish overnight.

Adding this hour was brilliant. Oprah really managed to connect the harrowing story, carefully told in the documentary, to the experience of other victims; to the millions of child sexual abuse survivors whose abuser wasn’t famous, by showing how the pattern of grooming is essentially the same (ie the story told by…

Because she has experienced it and spent a good portion of her career interviewing researchers, advocates, victims and abusers. I have a lot of problems with Oprah, but this is one thing she is actually qualified to discuss and has done a lot of advocacy on.

I didn’t know how profoundly After Neverland was going to impact me. Really wish I hadn’t watched it. There was childhood sexual abuse in my family that I thought had been neatly tucked away but this film ripped that fucking wound right open. I doubt I’ll get a good night sleep for a long while.

My first understanding of who Luke Perry was came from this scene from Clueless: “[Cher is] saving herself for Luke Perry.”

Yes. If he really just enjoyed hanging out with children, why wouldn’t he be happy just to spend time with them in broad daylight, with no beds and lots of other adults around to keep things obviously above board?

I once realized how smart one of my friends was a guy she had been hooking up with broke up with his girlfriend and then asked my friend to go out with him. She looked that sucker dead in the eye and said “why the hell would I want to go out with you? You cheat on your girlfriends.”

Yes. And you should too. — See also:
-George Pell (Vatican treasurer)
-Jimmy Saville (very famous UK television personality)
-Jerry Sandusky (very famous football coach)
-Bill Cosby (famous actor)
-Harvey Weinstein (Hollywood producer)
-Jeffrey Epstein (billionaire)
-R. Kelly (famous musician)
-Bryan Singer (famous director)
…

Something has always troubled me about the whole MJ story. If he loved and admired and desired to spend so much time including sharing his bed with children, why weren't there ever any little girls around. This alone makes me think that he was sexually attracted to young boys.

Sorry, may sound harsh, but the guy was a freak show in his adult life then practically canonized after his premature death. Where there is that much smoke there was most assuredly some fire at one point. Can’t believe how many people still defend him.

We are a generation removed from the molesting bike store owner on Different Strokes and nearly a decade removed from Jerry Sandusky. There have been credible allegations against Jackson going back a literal quarter century. I simply cannot accept that the concept that the notion of Jackson-as-pedophile remains too…

This notion of “imperfect victims” makes my head hurt. MRAs and their ilk sink their teeth into this imperfection (i.e. “she called him after”, “how can we trust him-he uses”). Abuse traumatizes people and trauma can often lead to questionable decision-making. It’s not complicated. We need better language to support…

He discusses the fact that an “air-tight” investigation is somewhat impossible with child sexual abuse, since there’s typically no material evidence and there are few, if any, witnesses. It’s usually “he-said-she-said.” And he acknowledges that these men were CHILDREN when these crimes occurred, and there may be…