I am not a fan of what he’s saying either but if you think of him and Corey Haim and the financial situation they were both in - Haim sold his teeth on ebay for money. True that some of this was drug-related (some, most?) but money problems are huge and there are a lot of problems that can be solved with money.…

I think he’s someone who had any semblance of control taken from him very young by adults he trusted. I think he is super-protective of his narrative, to the point that his public persona has been tainted. He needs a PR person & an attorney that he trusts, but given how mistrustful he seems of authority figures, it…

Thank you for using the word ambivalent. It’s a perfect descriptor here. Corey Feldman is a victim. So are all of Weinstein’s accusers. I can’t help but think that one of the undercurrents in all of this is about homophobia and masculinity and I know the comments section may not be the right place to parse it but I’m…

I am aware of what he has been through, but I appreciate your thoughtful analysis of his issues. I feel sorry for him too, but I don’t think I am attacking him. I’d like to think I am correcting him...because he is wrong and what he has been through doesn’t change that. He has a tremendous platform most survivors…

It’s hard with Corey. He and his best friend were obviously abused as children. He didn’t have a safe, stable upbringing, and he had untethered fame and money as a teenager surrounded by drugs and yes men. That robs you of a lot of common sense many of us take for granted, and there’s a large part of him that never…

As a victim of childhood abuse (although I also had the unconditional love and support of my grandmother to ameliorate a little of the damage), I completely empathize with Corey’s and your mom’s lack of trust in people...and fears that people will do their worst to him. It was a lesson that some children learned over…

Let’s not attack the victim here. Let’s recognize that he remains, as a consequence of his abusive childhood, at the stunted emotional development of a young child. Let’s place the blame for his immaturity and inability to recognize other victims where it belongs on his attackers and his parents and everyone who…

My mom was horribly abused by her parents and she became a completely paranoid adult. I knew about some growing up, but after her death a shit ton more came out and everything started adding up and I really began understanding her “bad decisions”.

Feldman continues to defend Michael Jackson because Michael Jackson didn’t sexually abuse him, therefore Michael Jackson is not a pedophile. Sounds familiar, right? “Well, I never saw X rape, so X isn’t a rapist.” I was going to write Feldman should acknowledge Michael Jackson was a pedophile but maintain that he…

First of all simply naming names is never easy when dealimg with child rapists. History has shown us that even when men without power abuse us, the system is so full of other abusers that justice is a fucking pipe dream. Your own family will doubt you and discredit you due to their own guilt. look at any article where…

Thank you, that was what I was struggling to describe. He’s not being fair to other victims, and I’m struggling to be fair to him...as I should.

Yeah, I’m not crazy about his comments towards other victims, but I also feel like that doesn’t diminish the truth of what he is saying.

.....is the kind of shit that people say about victims.

I saw it more as Spacey admitting he is gay and Rapp’s accusations very well may be true, although Spacey does not remember. He did not deny, he apologized.

Hitting on a 14-year-old is fucked up. It is not pedophilia, unless he was prebuscent. It is fucked up and illegal in most states. But really? I hope things are chsnging but most gay men I know were teens having sex with men. Stereotypes can be true. Lots of gay men have sex with teens. But it isnt like gay men go…

Well, we could not feed into their bullshit by remembering a pedophile is not sexually attracted to a person who is physically sexually mature. A predilection for teenagers is deeply troubling, but it isn’t pedophilia.

Pedophiles don’t go after 14-year-old, they go after 8-year-old. Let’s call Spacey what he is (an abuser), not what he isn’t (pedophile). And no he’s not reinforcing the idea that gay=pedophile except in the minds of homophobes who already believed that anyway.

I thought his apology was shit as well, but lots of people keep throwing around the word pedophilia when it doesn’t apply in this case. Anthony Rapp was 14 years old, which would place him outside of the “child” category according to the textbook definition of pedophilia. What this would be is hebephilia, if Spacey…

The Times story was printed first, but they started reporting the story after Farrow did he had been working on it for months - that’s why he had so many more in-depth accounts and accusations. Part of why Farrow’s story was delayed according to reports was that NBC his primary employer refused to air it, so he had to…

There haven’t been any consequences to Weinstein for decades of rape and assault, aside from being forced to retire at retirement age. Not sure why your wrath is reserved for the employees who may well have been coerced into abetting him, but not the ACTUAL RAPIST.