My mother walked in on me being sexually abused by a (male) babysitter and then later lectured me about how “that’s not what Jesus wants you to do.”

This could have been written so carelessly, but I feel like you really honored the discussion, and highlighted some important things. And it feels like a piece that honors survivors. I’m sitting here welling up because it’s so important. Childhood sexual abuse is so common, and the best thing we can do is train our…

I understand she was probably trying to promote Wade’s dance career ... but he was seven, so wanting him to *have* a career is pretty messed up in itself.

I’ve never been a victim of sex abuse, but I’m definitely more mad at my parents than I am at my former bullies, especially now that I’m a parent.

Even in one of her last seasons, she did a show in which the audience consisted only of male survivors of sexual abuse. In her series finale, she thanked them for “lifting the wall of shame".

And it sounds like the Safechucks kind of stumbled into Jackson’s circle, where Joy Robson actively tried to get Wade in front of Michael while they were in LA. I understand she was probably trying to promote Wade’s dance career ... but he was seven, so wanting him to *have* a career is pretty messed up in itself.

This documentary and the subsequent hour with Oprah was the best thing I have ever seen on childhood sexual abuse. The clear articulation of grooming, the motivations of the boys’ refusing to speak the truth initially, the complicatedness of abuse when it feels like love, the life long effect it has on the victims and…

Sounds like a person I followed on Twitter.  Generally their tweets are things I agree with, then one day recently they followed up a post about believing women with a post about how Cosby was railroaded.  They insisted that the 50+ women were all liars and it was a grand conspiracy.  So much for believing survivors. …

Yeah. I’ve been reading about this for the last few days. I grew up loving his music and dancing, and videos in the 80's. And my kids even loved him for a while—wanted to copy all the dance moves, etc. That nostalgia for me, now is completely GONE, and forever. I think there are going to be a lot of people ( I’m like…

In the first part of the doc when he’s showing the jewelry, how the rings couldn’t fit over his fingers, illustrating perfectly how small he was at the time. The way his hands shook when he handled them. My god, it was heartbreaking.

The seduction- that’s all you can term it- of the entire families was absolutely one of the most shocking aspects to the abuse.

I saw one person, whose bio identifies him as a women’s rights, civil rights, and LGBTQ rights ally, praise MAGA people for their response to this documentary and insult “liberals” who believe Robson and Safechuck. It was...remarkable.

I am sure this special is super well done, and I did watch that clip, and Oprah is absolutely asking the right questions.

I get it. Your parents are charged with protecting you. Strangers owe you no such thing. It’s also much harder to take what you THOUGHT was love, and turn it into anger.

Yeah of the two moms, Robson’s mom definitely angered me the most. Not to undercut the obvious warning signs that the Safechucks ignored, but some of the ones Joy Robson blew past were particularly shocking. Couple that with Joy pressuring Wade to testify AND the fact that she still seems to be hiding from the full…

I was an 80's kid, and grew up under the whole MJ is a god idea. We all knew he was “weird” “odd” ect, but he came across so childlike and innocent, you really did believe he was just majorly emotionally scarred and stunted. And I didn’t believe the accusations.

I had similar thoughts. It’s obvious that much of the narrative around Michael Jackson was set during the 1993 trial and everything that’s happened since then has spiraled out from it. “They want money” is because the Chandlers took a check, likely because they realized they weren’t going to get legal justice.…

The responses to the documentary have been pretty upsetting, but I have to admit that #canceloprah gave me a laugh. Y’all think Oprah’s getting cancelled because of this documentary? Fat fucking chance.

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.

Yesterday, Wendy Williams made her return to her talk show, and after hearing how dismissive she was of the victims, calling it all a “money grab” without even having seen the the documentary, I wish she’d just taken the rest of the season off. The comments are just as infuriating. MJ fans are somethin’ else. It’s not…