Some of y’all keep saying this was a self-promoting publicity stunt, and yet, here we are talking about the musical’s choice to erase those allegations that you feel are silly to talk about, rather than the reporter.
It is precisely because so many people are comfortable minimizing these stories of abuse - including Nottage herself, who said she fully believed the accusers before quickly changing her tune (something I learned through the reporting on the red carpet ouster) - that we must keep them alive.
The Jackson family has a very large platform to extract as much money as they can from Michael’s IP, and if we follow your lead to not talk about his alleged sexual abuse of boys (under the argument that since he’s not alive, it’s not relevant, which is an odd way of letting him off the hook), then that story gets drowned out by the giant money-making, legend burnishing apparatus of this musical and other Jackson IP.
Sorry, but some of us are going to keep telling that story, because it matters. |
