my post from another thread:
It is one of the more egregious, extreme cases of gaslighting in modern pop culture.
For all the discussions on here, with men seeming so confident in their deductive reasoning, about sexuality and infidelity, and "sharing that girl", many are laughably quick to close their eyes to the obvious. If I said, a girl I was seeing met someone, celeb or not, and was sleeping in his bed, going on trips all over the world, and she came back and said "Yeah, but we don't have sex", what would anyone of you tell me? What are anyone of you telling yourselves about what Michael Jackson?
"yeah, he did all that other creepy, predatory behavior, well yeah he held their hands, yeah he groomed children, and spent time in bed with them, yeah, he built Neverland Ranch, essentially an ode to the sexual abuse of children, he talked on the phone for hours to children, yeah., he did all that other DOCUMENTED shyt....but he didn't sexually abuse them". That is people's stance?
Do you realize the sheer irrationality of that statement? It's delusional. No one would make that argument in almost any other situation, ever. and what was the FBI going to find that would change anyone's mind? You have the victims interviewed. You have the photographic, visual, audio evidence of his relationships with children. A VHS tape? These are not financial cases or white collar fraud where there is a paper trial, in the pre digital age.