I kind of enjoy when a celebrity puts their foot in their mouth, and when it’s someone like Barbra Streisand, it’s even better.
Last week, Streisand said that while she absolutely believes Michael Jackson’s Leaving Neverland accusers, James Safechuck and Wade Robson, she also wonders what’s the big deal:
“[Jackson’s] sexual needs were his sexual needs, coming from whatever childhood he has or whatever DNA he has. You can say ‘molested’, but those children, as you heard say (the grown-up Robson and Safechuck), they were thrilled to be there. They both married and they both have children, so it didn’t kill them.”
Being raped didn’t kill them so let’s just move on? Is that it, Babs? But then she dug in deeper, blaming the parents of the boys:
“It’s a combination of feelings. I feel bad for the children. I feel bad for him. I blame, I guess, the parents, who would allow their children to sleep with him. Why would Michael need these little children dressed like him and in the shoes and the dancing and the hats?”
Barbra doesn’t get it because there are people dressed like her, in her shoes, dancing in her hats, and they are all grownup people, not young boys being groomed for a pedophile’s bed chambers. And so, as happens when celebrities flap their lips without so much as a thought—though OI expect more from Streisand—she issued a “clarification”:
“To be crystal clear, there is no situation or circumstance where it is OK for the innocence of children to be taken advantage of by anyone. The stories these two young men shared were painful to hear, and I feel nothing but sympathy for them. The single most important role of being a parent is to protect their children. It’s clear that the parents of the two young men were also victimized and seduced by fame and fantasy.”
Nice, but really, she should have said:
“I uttered some stupid shiz because I forgot that these were children being raped by a grown man and you NEVER blame the victim, or anyone other than the perpetrators.”
Then she should just shut up and sing.
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he's a douche, but i probably wouldn't object if a-rod send me a dick pic. and I read and reread the Spice Girls thing and don't understand what secret - let alone sexual one - was discussed.
ReplyDeleteevery one of these idiots should STFU and FOAD.
ReplyDeleteJoe Alwyn, such a pretty bag to hold so much sh...uh, manure!
ReplyDeleteJLo certainly knows how to pick 'em. The one common denominator in all of her relationships is her. Therapy may be in order.
Totally off topic here, Bob, I loved the title of your last Project Runway post! You are so clever. I wasn't aware that it was back until your posts. Unfortunately, I miss a lot of your clever critiquing because the blog thingy stops responding when the posts get into the middle of the archive section of the side bar. I read your stuff because I really don't want to watch all of the bitching and unlovely people that appear every season. I tried watching the first episode, but that Heidi Klum replacement set my teeth on edge. It's like she's posing all of the time. Well, it's on demand so I can probably fast forward to the runway part. I do love your takes on PR.
We know, because he admitted it, that Michael Jackson had these little boys sleeping in his bed. What has not been proven is what else happened in that bed and the crowds of people saying Jackson definitely did not sexually abuse those boys are talking through their hats. They weren't there and the boys were.
ReplyDeleteI've never heard of Joe Alwyn so as far as I am concerned he is not famous. I cannot think why anyone would want to be famous; there are no upsides to fame that I can see.
PS I have the same problem as Deedles with your longer posts - they stop mid-sentence as it were
Now who left the bag of idiots open again?
ReplyDeleteI like that phrase 'bag of idiots' :-)
ReplyDeleteLoL bag of idiots.
ReplyDeleteAnd their shenanigans are sometimes way too much for me.
But I have to say I’ve always despised Hasselbeck. Stupid shrill.
XoXo
P.S. your blog is one of the few I can still post on! Maddie’s and Anne Marie’s don’t let me. I have to find out what on earth is going on!
@Sixpence
ReplyDeleteAre you using a Google account to post? I'd heard they were phasing those out and maybe that's why? I haven't been having any trouble.
There's a difference between 'appearing' and 'staring.' Joe Alwyn's career has most likely peaked.
ReplyDeleteBabs is great, she just doesn't think sometimes... a problem she's always had.
Dr. Dre... who?
Sorry, but Rosie's a side of beef and Hasselback... beck, well, that's kind of funny, I mean I didn't know she's a spokesperson for God.
Hmmmm, yup I'm just going to go with what Anne Marie said, she always puts things way more eloquently than I can... lol. :D
ReplyDeleteThere used to be this amazing little Barbara Stresisabd museum on Castro St in SF called "hello, Gorgeous." Everything was really home-made, there was a diorama of a manequin sitting in an easy chair with a tv tray watching Barbara's TV special on an old black and white TV, for instance. It was glorious. Then one of the guys who created and ran the museum met Ms Streisand. The museum was quickly shut down. As he said "it turns out she is NOT a nice person!"
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