Littlesparrow (what a cute name
) I completely see where you're coming from. I do feel the same sometimes. Remember people are still sensitive, and when things happen which misrepresent MJ people get angry. I get angry at that.
There is a lot of arguing between fans which is not needed. There is arguing about silly things which we, as fans, don't even know the truth about. Things which only Michael and whomever else was involved would know. For example the Shana girlfriend/not girlfriend thing. People have their own personal views and representations of Michael. Like beauty is in the eye of the beholder, our perception is subjective, even for Michael. We have what he projects about himself, we each interpret it in our own way, each of us places importance on different aspects, we relate it to something we personally have read or heard him say in the past, we can even add something from our own personal experiences.. until we end up with our own personal representation of him. We can have our opinions, but none of us here (well maybe some people here
)can know for sure we are right about certain things. It can be enjoyable to speculate about certain things..obviously that is what a discussion board is all about, but theres no point arguing and getting angry about it because at the end of the day, unless you are 100% informed about something, you don't
know.
There are things posted on here which just wind everyone up - I don't think we should post negative things people say about him unless we can actually do something about it.. because it just upsets us and nothing changes because at the end of the day it has already been printed or said on national TV. Unless there is something we can do, and unless we are all going to do something to try and change or counteract it then theres no point posting it, it just creates negativity.
There are some over the top conspiracy theories -its going a bit too far when people seem to think that everything and everyone connected to MJ is involved in a big conspiracy. People want to investigate why he died though. They may not actually believe there is more to it than accidental death caused by murray when he gave MJ his propofol BUT they still want to investigate other possibilities when they come across something suspicious. Sometimes it goes too far, but the investigative threads have their own subforum, so its not in our faces.. people can go there if they wish. People who don't like that stuff don't need to go there.
People are going to be angry at AEG because they were around him, it feels like he was in their care and he ended up dying. He ended up dying from being anesthetised in his own home. Why did it come to that? We see photos of a skinny MJ and AEG's Randy saying that they had to employ someone to remind him to eat and that Kenny cut up his food almost spoonfeeding him?! Yet Kenny's twitter posts and video during rehearsals were all excitement and joy..people kinda feel lied to. What was happening that people
must have been aware of yet allowed to happen? Why did he need an operating room general anesthetic to 'sleep'? Why didn't they see that his wellbeing...and ultimately his life was more important than any damn concert? No prizes for guessing why people are angry at Murray, he delivered the fatal injection and he made unforgivable errors. Murray is the focus of a homicide investigation. Michael DIED, there was no need for it, and it could have been avoided.
AEG also did the whole £80 for a bit of cardboard thing, seeming to try to guilt trip grieving fans into paying for our ticket as a memento 'Michael designed it, he hoped for it to be kept as a memento of the wonderful evening you spent together'. Great marketing..how they managed to make us hold great sentimental value towards a bit of fancy card almost as if it was the last piece of Michael left. Like he was gone but we could have him in our lives if we payed £80 for the lenticular card. They gave us the choice though,
bless them..
The thing that most people are sensitive over..including me is the misrepresentation of MJ in the media. The Michael the public knows isn't who we have got to know. They twist things, they're selective in what they print, they leave important information out, they lie.. its not fair and it shouldn't be allowed. Anger towards this is completely understandable. We've had enough. We'd had enough lonnnggg ago. It hurts us so bad. Imagine what it did to Michael, what it does to his family, and what it will do to his children when they see or hear it. The media portrays Michael's fans as all crazy deluded lunatics.. thats another thing they do to discredit him - by insinuating that his fans only like him because they are weirdos themselves. They say we believe that the media has a vendetta against him. They are damn right, and we aint crazy. We see it because in a lot of cases we know things first from here.. and then see it printed in a newspaper the next day or a couple days later, completely twisted..little quotes picked out.. with important information which completely changes the tone of the article left out. We saw it with the Rabbi tapes..where they picked out sensational quotes, completely ignoring what MJ said just a paragraph before which would have completely changed the tone of the quote, and the article. Also, when the recent autopsy was released how the press sensationalised
'freaky tattoos where his eyebrows were supposed to be'
[umm its called permenant make up and its really not uncommon] and him being bald in places..etc. whilst completely
ignoring or twisting the conformation of his vitiligo which would have shut up the people who believe he bleached his skin because he wanted to be white. They could have dispelled a misconception/lie, but they chose not to. In one of the three newspapers I saw that actually bothered to refer to the vitiligo, after it talked about the tattoos it stated
'Ravaging his once good looks further, skin pigment loss was on his face, arms and chest'
leaving that open to interpretation. Why not just state what the autopsy said that other sources have quoted?
'suffered from a skin disease that reduced pigment and left patches of white skin'
I guess what I'm trying to say is I can see why people are angry about certain things. What I don't think we should do is argue between ourselves, especially about things we actually don't
know about. We have enough negativity to deal with, we don't need it here.
