seikikuurin: this has been the week for celebrity deaths, hasn’t it?
cah1470: yeah I guess so
seikikuurin: my flist is all ablaze with “RIP” messages
cah1470: yeah well you know everyone sent me a text after work yesterday because of Corey
seikikuurin: yeah
seikikuurin: my grandmother called us to tell us
cah1470: I know I am biased when it comes to michael but I really wish the press would stop harping on the molestation case
cah1470: I always find it interesting that Elvis had Priscilla move in at 14 and died from complications from drug abuse and yet it’s michael jackson they seem so insistent to keep an asterick beside his name
seikikuurin: I think part of it is a different era because they were still protecting stars from that kind of stuff in Elvis’s day, just like Presidents
seikikuurin: but yeah I am tired of the rehash of the molestation stuff
cah1470: I watched a bit of CNN which you know I hate to do after T sent the text
cah1470: and the guy was talking about all the ownership rights michael had and how revolutionary it was
cah1470: he could barely get that out for them going back to how financially strapped he was and all his legal “issues”
cah1470: and it’s like ok, ok, ok
cah1470: the man is still leaving behind ownership rights to most of his songs and half of the beatles
cah1470: can we talk about that for 5 mins?
seikikuurin: yeah seriously
seikikuurin: you know I hate all of it anyway
cah1470: yeah I do too
cah1470: don’t know why I let it get to me
cah1470: but without fail it annoys the crap out of me
seikikuurin: lol
seikikuurin: yeah me too
cah1470: so after about 5 minutes I had to turn it off
cah1470: besides there was tennis to watch
seikikuurin: I pissed several people off when I got cranky over david carradine
cah1470: let’s not even talk about david lol
cah1470: he had a fetish
cah1470: he died accidentally
cah1470: why is it ok for a star to have a ski accident
cah1470: private plane accident
cah1470: hell hang gliding accident
cah1470: but if it’s sexual in anyway he was stupid
cah1470: call me crazy but some guy hang gliding is pretty damn stupid
seikikuurin: because we are a country of prudes who want to drag down everyone
cah1470: yep
cah1470: it’s so annoying
seikikuurin: yup
seikikuurin: “The research on emotion implies that people see women as flighty and fragile, but the cases Bindel discusses bring up another stereotype: that women have a greater obligation to control their tempers than men do. Bindel mentions Alicia Crown, who killed her boyfriend in what she says was self-defense. Her lawyers argued that she suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder from her boyfriend’s abuse and from a difficult upbringing in Jamaica, but the jury rejected this defense, seeing her as “remarkably resilient.” Domestic violence expert Marai Larasi comments, “In my experience black women are particularly susceptible to being viewed as ’strong’, able to cope and somehow not vulnerable.” In this case it wasn’t Crown’s fragility that got her in trouble, it was the assumption that she, a black woman, should be “strong enough” to take abuse and not fight back.”
cah1470: ugh
cah1470: so this woman basically went to jail because she should have been able to deal with being abused better?
seikikuurin: yup
seikikuurin: and the other case in the same article
seikikuurin: a woman killed her boyfriend who abused her
cah1470: the guardian?
seikikuurin: yeah
cah1470: found it
seikikuurin: and the judge ruled that since she worked with teens w/ problems, she should’ve had the patience to deal w/ her boyfriend beating her
seikikuurin: god I hate men
cah1470: yeah that scares me sometimes
cah1470: that deep down annoyance
cah1470: since I am raising two of them lol
seikikuurin: 
cah1470: Two days later, Joseph McGrail killed his common-law wife, as she lay drunk, by kicking her repeatedly in the stomach. He was given a two-year suspended sentence for manslaughter and walked free. The judge expressed “every sympathy” for McGrail, adding “this lady would have tried the patience of a saint”.
cah1470: OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
cah1470: I am so not going to be able to read this article!
seikikuurin: that’s why I just sent you PART OF IT
cah1470: lol thank you dear friend
cah1470: you know me so well
seikikuurin:
June 25, 2009...11:32 pm
Human Nature…
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June 27, 2009 at 7:42 am
That poor, poor guy. What kind of hell-bitch was this woman that she drove him to do that, huh?
But don’t get me started on the MJ and children thing. Let’s not forget that MJ made a point to have children all over his ranch, had them in videos, etc. That kind of thing creeps people out.
June 27, 2009 at 9:55 am
OMG! Can you believe that judge? I couldn’t even read the entire article…
(being creeped) Yes it does and as a mother of two I wouldn’t have allowed overnight visits or unsupervised visits. But I do think it’s interesting the case that did manage to make it to trial was by a proven con artist and a determined D.A. who couldn’t even prove Michael was in the country most of the time the boy was at his home. For a man who was in the public eye like he was, with the public convinced he was an evil child molester, who as you put it had kids all over his ranch. Seems odd nothing other than speculation could ever be made of it.
As for David I don’t think it was his 1st time trying self bondage. I think it was part of his sexual behavior and I never feel comfortable judging other people’s kinks. My point really wasn’t about why he would masturbate in that way or why he enjoyed self bondage. It was there are a lot of behaviors I find dangerous and I never hear the backlash when people die from them. I didn’t hear anyone calling Natasha stupid for not wearing a helmet on the slopes. It was an accident and a terrible shame. I just don’t find it to be that big of a leap to see David’s accident in the same light.
June 28, 2009 at 10:48 am
Nice to see that women continue to get the short of the stick.
June 29, 2009 at 7:44 pm
oops.. I was the one to use the line *stupid* in relation to auto-erotic activity.
I also think speeding is *stupid*.. and using heroin is *stupid*.. and riding a motorbike without a helmet and leathers is *stupid*..
hmm.. feeling my white conservative middle-classness closing in on me right now..
June 30, 2009 at 6:27 pm
You were certainly not the only one to use the word “stupid” kellie and I had been ranting about the story a couple of days before so I am sure I had heard or read how stupid David was about 100 times before you commented on it. Oh and speeding is definitely stupid…