Michael Jackson

[captain_slinky]

I hate the whole Michael Jackson thing. On the one hand, sure - Everything about him leads one to believe he's a Kid Toucher. Amusement park in the back yard, toys and games everywhere, child-like actions, troubled childhood, and accusations out the wazoo of innapropriate conduct and/or child molestation. His comment about sharing a bed with a child is a wonderful thing keeps getting played as some sort of evidence that he's a kid toucher.

But what makes me so angry is that *I* am like that! I love kids! I would love to put an Amusement park in my back yard for all the neighborhood kids to come and play in! My apartment is FULL of games and toys that kids love! And worst of all, I do believe that there is something absolutely WONDERFUL about sharing your bed with a child. Not in a sick perverted way... but when a child crawls in to bed with you and just wants to curl up next to you, there's something really magical about it. It's kind of like when a cat jumps up in to your lap and falls asleep, only a billion times better :)

So what does this mean? Am I actually some sort of pervert kid-toucher who should be locked up just because I like kids? Should I have to wear an electronic tracking ankle bracelet and tell all my neighbors that I'm a Registers Kid Lover? Should I be worried about the fact that I actually like kids???

Really, I am worried about it. I see Michael Jackson on TV and think "Wow it would be cool to be able to do that for kids". So if it ends up that he *is* a molester, what does that make me?

Comments

[dotgirl.livejournal.com]

Bri, if he *is* a molester, it makes him a kid toucher. But it also invalidates his whole "it's just innocent hugging" defense. And there's a big difference between having one of your nieces crawl into bed for hugs in the morning and inviting several 13-year old boys over for sleepovers. Britt still comes and hugs us every morning, even though she's 10 .. but we don't invite her friends to come hug us when she has sleepovers, you know?

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

I'm worried about the whole Walks like a duck, talks like a duck comparisons in it all. Every time an "Expert" is quoted on the news about Michael, they say that ANYONE over the age of thirty who decorates their house with toys and games and invites kids over for sleep overs is most likely 99.9% chance that they are a kid toucher. So hre I am, 30, in a house decked wall-to-wall with Toys and Games, inviting kids over to my house to have sleep-overs.

10 years ago, a kid nearly got MJ arrested because he could describe that Micahel's genetalia looked like. Although not as damning, Brittany could probably describe my testicles if forced to, or at the very least describe my "Tighty-Whiteys"! And we know it's not because I SHOWED her anything... I just like to lounge around in poorly constructed underwear when I'm watching cartoons. However, try to prove that in court!

[dotgirl.livejournal.com]

The big differences between you and a child molester is - you don't touch children inappropriately! Everything else is just stuf for people to talk about. If MJ had *never* allowed a child to sleep in his bed, refused to hug his kids publically, and talked about how he felt it was wrong for children to sleep in beds with adults, and then got accused of this, everyone would say, "Well of course! He was just trying to throw us off the track!"

Also, never discuss your testicles again.

[spazzychic.livejournal.com]

*agree*!

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

But my testicles are so FUN to talk about!

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

They itch.

[happilymyself.livejournal.com]

You're a sick FREAK!!!

hehe, j/k

Yeah, I haven't really made up my mind on it either, but I know the whole sexualization of normal activities is lame. Sleeping in the same bed with a child is NOT sex. Hugging a child is NOT sexual. Kissing a child on the cheek is not sexual. Giving a student a literal pat on the back is not sexual. Love is NOT sexual.

It's gotten way out of hand.

Have you seen Man Without a Face?

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Worst of all, though, is that MJ is already convicted. If a court finds him guilty, everyone gets to say "Wel of COURSE he was guilty!" and if they find him innocent they'll say "He just BOUGHT his way out of it... we all know he's really guilty".

Regardless of how it turns out, to the World he's guilty. And so are all the otehr over-30, Toy-and-game-collecting, Cartoon-watching, Kid-loving adults out there like me :(

Never seen Man Without A Face... it's a Mel Gibson flick, right?

[happilymyself.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It's about a school teacher who'd been wrongly accused of things long before, so he's pretty much exhiled, and he turns into a hermit, and there's this troubled kid who needs help with school, and he starts tutoring him, and then people find out about his past...

Right along these lines.

[spazzychic.livejournal.com]

You're pretty safe unless you DO actually molest children. It makes you a child at heart. Which he is too. I don't really see him as a pervert, more as someone who took loving kids all the way to a felony. You're not taking it that far now are you?

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

No, I'd never take it that far. But then again, Micahel says that, too... why should anyone believe him OR me? The problem is that MJ is already guilty, regardless of what happens legally. If a court finds him guilty, everyone gets to say "Well of COURSE he was guilty!" and if they find him innocent they'll say "He just BOUGHT his way out of it... we all know he's really guilty".

Regardless of how it turns out, to the World he's guilty. And so are all the other over-30, Toy-and-game-collecting, Cartoon-watching, Kid-loving adults out there like me :(

[spazzychic.livejournal.com]

You have an advantage of not being the "King of Pop"... the media and the public is obsessed with watching the stars fall. And you haven't dangled any babies out of windows have you? He's also tragically.. well.. weird. It's easy to make the assumption, even if we knew nothing about his toys and cartoons and such.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

See, that's the problem. I *am* tragically weird! Also, I have a look about me that just seems to go with the voice-over of "Parents are urged to be on the lookout for *this man*, and keep your children away from him at all costs"! So I worry that being a bit eccentric plus loving kids plus loving childish things is going to one day add up to the public just assuming that I MUST be a kid toucher :(

[spazzychic.livejournal.com]

You think you have a scary vibe? Lol what do you really intend to do about all this? Close doors and windows like Weird Al says? I think until you start fondling minors (and your wife would not approve) I would not worry so much about these things.

[bghsmith.livejournal.com]

The whole thing about the accusations coming only after MJ stopped giving the mother money makes me think it's a set-up. I'm not a huge fan of the guy, but that little under-reported bit of info changed my entire view of the whole (pardon the pun) affair.

I, for one, can not look at that interview of MJ talking about sleeping with a child and not see that he honestly doesn't believe he is doing anything wrong. [shrug] Read into it what you will.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

You confused me with your words. You don't un-believe what he's not saying when he doesn't un-say the things about not doing anything not wrong???

[bghsmith.livejournal.com]

Ok, let me edit that last bit:

When I see that interview, it's clear to me that he honestly believes that nothing is wrong with sharing a bed with a child.

What I'm saying is, he knows (or a least should know) that touching little boys in a 'bad' way is wrong. When he talks about sharing the bed with a child, he doesn't look like someone who knows he's done something wrong.

ya-know-what-I-mean?

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Ah! Yes! I understand it much better now! For a while there I wasn't sure if you were slamming him or not :)

[flummoxicated.livejournal.com]

I would feel a lot better if he hadn't mutilated his face with plastic surgery.

And forget that "no one over 30 should have toys" crap. I'm not very much into children, but i have a few SpongeBob toys around the house. So there.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Okay... so it's okay to persecute someone unjustly as long as they have had a few medical mistakes? Good to know!

Kidding... I know what you mean :)

Oh, and "A Few" toys lying around is one thing... my house is like living at an FAO Schwartz Store! Everywhere you turn there's toys, games, posters of super-heroes and 80's cartoon characters... Kids love to come by!

[flummoxicated.livejournal.com]

That's cool that you let the kids play with your toys. I've encountered a lot of people who won't.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Well of course i do! What good are toys if you don't play with them? I'm also a comic book collector who actually reads and loand out his comic books. When I grow up, I want to be Santa :)