I think it is of importance, to learn to see the signs that people might want to dismiss as “normal” behavior, when adults behave in certain ways around children. For that reason, alone, it is important to pay attention.
The (now adult) kids in this new documentary can shed a lot of light on how a (seemingly, sweet, childlike, charming) celebrity can pull the wool ovet everyone’s eyes, and be a pedophile, almost out in plain sight. Michael Jackson sat on that couch with that one little boy, from the Bashir, documentary, and cooed to him as if the little boy was his sexual lover, in front of everyone. It made me want to vomit and call CPS, while other people saw it as “sweet”.
I think that because Michael Jackson was a huge celebrity, and everybody liked his music, they were willing to overlook the fact that it is not common, or normal, to allow children to have unsupervised visits or sleepovers with adult men, who are virtual strangers, and not their parents. There was no reason for that to have ever been allowed to happen.
Take Michael Jackson out of the picture. Pretend it was Donald Trump, or Barack Obama, or Bill Cosby, or a school teacher, or a baseball coach, or one of your local firemen, or policeman, or a 7–11 clerk. Why would any parent allow their kid to have an unsupervised stay (alone in their home), or a sleepover with any of them? And why would anyone think it’s OK for any of these men to sleep in the same bed with their kid?