The upcoming Michael Jackson movie is a huge opportunity

[Zepp]

I still remember the day he died.
Don't care about celebrities and artists, and didn't even care much about his music in general, but it was sad that he died early.
Freddie Mercury, MJ, George Michael and Prince....good guys.

[PSC Member]

The Michael movie is getting released globally in theaters next week.

As I was looking it up, I saw that there are now more boys coming out with their stories about sex with Michael - specifically Aldo Cascio and his brothers (and a sister who was naked with him). Unlike the salacious and mostly fake Epstein hysteria, we know that Michael Jackson slept in the beds of all these boys and that he was very close to them. We have many photos of the boys partly undressed with Michael, and we know Michael had purchased photobooks with nude boys that were found when his place was raided. Like all the other boys, Aldo Cascio talks about enjoying or at least tolerating the sex with Michael as a kid, and loving him as a friend, although the secrecy burdened him with guilt. It should be pretty obvious to actual pedophiles (especially boylovers) that Michael was one of us. There are dozens of accounts, all of them very realistic rather than sensationalized, and fit the realistic behavior of a boylover and his child friends.

It is really sad that society made these boys feel so emotionally confused about their relationships that it left them with trauma for the rest of their life. It must be hard to have such a great relationship and then spend decades of your life being forced to reconcile it with all the anti-pedophile hysteria that permeates our culture.

Reading and hearing all these accounts convinced me that, with the world the way it is today, the only potentially ethical way to have sexual contact with a young boy or girl is if they initiate it, and you explain that you don't want to reciprocate because society will make them confused about it later, but they continue to insist - which is of course very unlikely to happen. I do think it's OK in some cases to expose them to materials that would make it more likely for them to ask for it.

Anyway, for those who are brave, use your anonymous social media profiles to write comments about this movie, maybe some like these:
"I don't care about the Michael allegations one way or another, they don't seem that serious."
"The part I don't get is that all the boys who now claim he molested them used to deny it and said they loved Michael."
"The boys couldn't have been traumatized too badly considering they were all publicly big Michael fans even as adults."

[NotPennysBoat]

Looks like the movie is doing well, so I was way off, maybe some of the tarnish has worn off a bit. But I would not have bet on it, and I'm in no rush to see it.

I might see it on streaming somewhere. I generally dislike musician biopics. They usually compress/change major events and allow all kinds of anachronisms to creep in, just lazy stuff. And I'm guessing this will be the biggest whitewash spectacle of all.

This is not an opportunity to make society more sympathetic to pedos, it's not going to happen.

[on the rocks]

Seems like half of what the internet cares about is that movie didn't touch the allegations with a 10 foot pole. So clearly, there is demand to see that part of his life.

[radagast37]

The case of Michael Jackson always amuses me. While other "celebrity pedophiles" like Jeffrey Jones or Jared Fogel and either in prison or their careers in Hollywood are finished, for Michael despite the allegations that are and always be there his music still sounds, there are homages in his honor, performers who emulate him, products with his image that are still sold and now a biopic which is making millions are is liked by the audience,  the critics no so much. It seem because unlike the aforementioned cases there never was any solid evidence to convict him the world decided to gave him the benefit of a doubt.

[PSC Member]

I think Michael Jackson has avoided cancellation for a few reasons. The main reason is that somehow he was acquitted at trial. (I usually agree that the legal system should deal with celebrities if they committed a crime and it's not my business. But in this case the evidence is just overwhelming that he had sex with these boys. I'm baffled there are people don't believe it.) Another reason is that he's dead. If he were still alive, getting older, uglier, and less relevant, and forced to answer tough questions about the new allegations, I think it would be over for him. The last big reason he's had it good is that so many people (including me) love his music and it is so strong in the culture. It's not like he's an actor in old shows where you can just ignore it.

I am a bit tempted to check the movie out because of the music, but I know I will get irritated by all the ways the Jackson estate is building his cover story that he wasn't a pedophile. Even if he never had sex with them (he did), I still want to see him acting all touchy feely with the boys and sleeping in bed with them, as everyone knows he did, and not get fed a bunch of garbage on how he was just abused and quirky and that somehow explains his adoration of little boys.

I did try to leave some comments on YouTube but they seem to get shadowbanned whenever you mention the boys, so I'm giving up on my halfhearted attempt to bring some sanity to this whole thing.