The parents likely see themselves as blameless, because -after all- the Lord saved their child* [from their neglect].

This story proves, without a shadow of a doubt, the futility of arguing with hardcore anti-vaxxers. If almost losing a child, something I fear much more than dying myself, isn’t enough to shake these people, nothing will. Bet the medical staff treating this poor child had to restrain themselves.

And they still didn’t vaccinate him! There kid was in agony and it didn’t change their minds... Arghhhhggggggggggg

Can CPS do anything in a case like this? I guess I’m not sure. Poor kid, all that suffering because of stupid parents, and then they didn’t even learn thier lesson. A big FUCK YOU from us immunocompromised folks. I wonder if these fools even had insurance for all this.

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…

Latoya said (if you google it you may be able to find it) that she and her sister Rebbie were sexually abused by their father. Rebbie got the worst of it and moved out at 16 which is when he started abusing Latoya (to a lesser extent, based on her story). I would not even remotely be surprised if Joe abused Michael or…

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…

The thing that’s sad is you know there is probably someone out there who abused Jackson in the same way. This is NOT me defending his actions. But I think this is a terrible, terrible cycle. The ONLY way it’s going to stop is if more men speak out the way Robeson, Safechuck, and the other men in the audience did, even…

One thing that stuck really with me as damning that I didn’t know before- Wade’s dad killed himself after his family moved to LA to be near MJ.

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.

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.…

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…

Thank Oprah for bringing out this side of the conversation. I feel like we hear the yelling of the Jackson defenders, but an extended, calm conversation that explores the horrors of child seduction/grooming makes it impossible to deny. The 1000 kids he didn’t rape don’t invalidate the 2 (or more) that say he did.

He’s saying the same thing Sung Yi did about Woody Allen.  She didn’t feel victimized when Allen was grooming her, she like the attention and felt like it was love. 

She is a well established interviewer.  That’s what this was.  Then add in her own personal experience and her years of covering this subject.  I cant’ think of many tv personalities more qualified to lead this discussion.

One of the most insidious things about sexual abuse is that the trauma inflicted on the victim causes behavior that people use to discredit them. For instance, the victim vehemently defending the abuser is actually one of the potential symptoms of abuse. It’s a result of the grooming and of the desperate need for the…

God he was so hard to watch.  Wade Robson seemed like he was in a much better place about things (though he might just have had a better game face), but James looked so anguished and uncomfortable the entire time.

Because this is TV