Newsflash! Michael Jackson Is Creepy! Film at 11!

[lawnrrd]

Driving south on the New Jersey turnpike yesterday, we heard an old Jackson 5 song on the radio. Listening to a pre-pubescent Michael Jackson sing about his love for some girl, I started to get creeped out by the whole thing. I mean, pre-pubescent girls have never been the audience for this sort of act; it's aimed at grown women. And the young Michael Jackson is not the only young boy who has been popular in this way.

But we nearly never hear or read about boys that young being molested by adult women, so I suspect these women aren't simply eroticizing these singers. Which only gives rise to the question, what the hell is going on?

I expect that fans of these boys would say something to the effect that the boys are "cute." I don't understand why it's cute, not creepy, for a boy to try to express passion and desire he has almost certainly never experienced and can't understand. Is it that he's a harmless male? Is it that male sexuality is so scary that women long to hear it expressed by a male who is harmless?

Or am I just way off base here?

Comments

[wishiwas.livejournal.com]

Sadly, woman-on-boy sexual violence is much more common than it seems. Typically, a lot less is made of the cases, i.e. no public outcry from an outraged public/shorter or suspended sentences for the women.

[lawnrrd]

Interesting.

I feel I should have something else to say besides "interesting," but I can't think of it right now.

[wishiwas.livejournal.com]

You could also say 'Very' + 'Interesting'. And stand behind a fern, and wear a German uniform.

[lawnrrd]

Veddy eenterestink . . . but shtupid.

[wishiwas.livejournal.com]

Here's (http://library.northernlight.com/ED20030211510000052.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc) and example; according to this logic, someone that drive the car for a bank robber that gets a forty year sentence would get about two years. While someone who took some of the money afterward would get about five. Usually if a man is involved at all, all the blame goes to the man, and the woman is automatically seen as somewhat harmless unless acting on the orders of the man. The incidence of woman acting a alone is also much higher than it seems, too.

[lawnrrd]

Well, yes, there is a double standard. Sometimes I wonder if that is necessarily a bad thing, but that's a separate discussion.

But right now, I'm still trying to understand the nature of the appeal. Do these women really eroticize these boys? If you asked them, I think they'd say that they want to do something more like mother them. Are they lying to themselves? Or is the line between the two much blurrier than it appears?

All of which suggests a perfectly reasonable question, I guess, why "daddy" is a common character in fantasy and role-play, but "mommy" isn't.

[regyt.livejournal.com]

But "mommy" is a very common character in fantasy and role-play. It's not my thing, but I've certainly heard about it enough.

[lawnrrd]

I had some specific context in mind, I think. IIRC, Tristan Taormino wrote a Village Voice column around then about how common the "daddy" figure is in the world of kink and how rare the "mommy" one is by comparison. Probably she was referring to a specific subset of perverts and I probably left that out. Unfortunately, an hour's searching hasn't turned up the column, and I don't have that much free time these days.

You're right, of course, that "mommy" is a common character. But it's also no accident that Carol Queen did not write a book called The Leather Mommy and the Femme.

[melonaise.livejournal.com]

I don't quite understand it either. I think these are the same people that like pictures of children kissing each other and go "ooh, how cute" when their son is grossed out by a hug from his girl cousin. I think I'm glad I don't understand, so I can stand back and say "Freaks!" and feel unselfconscious about it.

[lawnrrd]

It's just terribly confusing. Why can't these people just tie each other up for ripe spankings like normal people?