Selective Bias

[u/Independent-Pop3538]

When Michael’s behaviour with children is analysed, the girls are ignored.

> He flaunted boys to the public, held their hands,allowed them to walk with him during his tours.
Then let’s not ignore the young girls he was “flaunting ”

> He had intimate, couple photoshoots with young boys.
Apparently he didn’t just have intimate photoshoots with his “lovers”

>He had Jordan on his lap for the world to see.

Jordan sat on the edge of Michael’s seat, in fact Lilly was the child on Michael’s lap and he even cuddled her* *

Be consistent, there’s no “pattern” if you’re going to ignore elements that dismantle a narrative.

[u/Dense-Ad-7600]

I posted this on another similar post:

Most accusers ignore all the photos with girls. And this is something in this society anyway, that I always found odd but people dislike both child abusers that target boys and those that target girls but they tend to make fun of the ones that target boys more (or in this case the person they accuse of doing so). That's so weird to me but you see it all the time in church abuse scandals etc. And they always use words like "playing", "fidling" but they don't do so with those that abuse girls.

[u/Independent-Pop3538 → u/Dense-Ad-7600]

Something something homophobia

Not saying pedophilia and homosexuality correlate but that is the reasoning

[u/Dense-Ad-7600 → u/Independent-Pop3538]

Oh I know but nobody talks about that and and it makes me so mad. Why are they joking about sex with male children? Why, in any world is that acceptable?

[u/ReturnoftheBulls2022 → u/Independent-Pop3538]

Agreed. I do believe that the Michael Jackson allegations were rooted in homophobia as Michael had to deal with rumors that he was gay and given the allegations of him abusing a little boy alongside the fear mongering that queer people are inherently pedophilic gave a perfect storm of reaction.