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TW: sexual abuse

I know it's hard to let your idols go. Many don't like to mention this. When the news about Louis C.K. and his sexual misconduct hit the news, I cried. Full-on sobs. I remember whispering "fuck you" at my twitter feed which was already plastered with reactions and rebuttals and devil's advocate. It was too much. So many celebrities and individuals of power were failing us. Utilizing their money for predatory circumstances. I was tired, not simply out of disappointment and rage, which there was plenty of, but a selfish loss of what I loved. As horrible as it sounds, his mocking, awkward stand-up, which heavily featured masturbation reenactments and other graphic imagery, was never…

Part 2, final thoughts:
I seriously cannot wrap my head around the idea of not believing these men. My anger towards this is so much greater than it would have been had I seen this at Sundance because just seeing the reactions to this documentary prove how much progress needs to be made. Somebody'll probably comment on this like "BUT UHH WHAT ABOUT THE EVIDENCE"

Dog, who in their right minds would make these kinds of things up, who would put themselves out there to the public and reveal a story this detailed and vulnerable. For money and attention? Yeah I'm sure they absolutely love the aggressive amount of hate and threats that have come their way since the release…

Warning: This review — like the film it describes — contains frank discussion of sex abuse involving children. Please read with caution.

It may not be much of a secret that Michael Jackson acted inappropriately with a number of young boys, but there’s no way to prepare yourself for the sickening forensic details presented in Dan Reed’s four-hour exposé. It’s one thing to be vaguely aware of the various allegations that were made against the King of Pop; the asterisks that will always be next to the late mega-star’s name. It’s quite another to hear the horrifyingly lucid testimony that stretches across the entire duration of “Leaving Neverland,” as two of Jackson’s most repeat victims bravely lay bare how a…

I went to Neverland Ranch in 2003, around the time the court cases were going on. I was about 13. It wasn’t a special invite from MJ or anything. It was for a Disney premiere screening of “Pirates of the Carribean” that my dad pulled an invite to. Not sure why they held a big event there while Jackson was AWOL dealing with the allegations, but uh, there we were.

Anyway, you get there and you get on a little train that takes you past the main house, which was empty, to the central area with the movie theater and everything.

You get off at a little train station that was serving free pastries and ice cream. I asked how…

a harrowing document of idolization, emotional manipulation and sexual abuse. not even sure how one goes about rating something like this. that bit about him rewarding james with rings and covering it up by telling the jewelry store employees that they were really shopping for women but james' fingers were comparable in size and that's why he was trying them on? just devastating. and in public! i'll confess to being quite young when the first two rounds of allegations came out so i mostly ingested them through pop culture and vague acknowledgements when his name came up. but that the broader public simply went along with the intentionally (and cynically) crafted image of himself as some sort of overgrown child…

An absolutely wrenching film that leaves zero doubt that Michael Jackson was a sick, depraved, manipulative, destructive pedophile, who ruined lives and tore apart families. Leaving Neverland forces us to ask why so many fans are unwilling to face up to that fact, as painful as it is.

By focusing on Wade and James, we get a compelling and heart wrenching glimpse of the impact that child sexual abuse has on people’s lives for years and years and years.  One sees how destructive it was for them to live so long in Neverland- to insist publicly and to themselves that “it never happened, never” - and how difficult, and ultimately essential it was for them to finally leave that never-land. …

TW// assault
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this is a tricky one to rate and i don’t know a lot about it, i simply didn’t get too deep into it for the sake of my mental health so i don’t know what evidence there is etc but something does not sit right with me with those of you who are going against morals and vilifying these victims, at the end of the day someone has come forward about an assault and i only find it fair to put myself in their shoes for a moment and believe them and support them - i know there’s a lot of die hard jackson fans out there who don’t want to see his name have such a…