Posted on 06/07/2015 10:10:38 AM PDT by Kaslin
Jill Dillard: "They're used to exploiting women."
In an interview with Fox News host Megyn Kelly that ran on Friday, two of the Duggar daughters who were victims of their brother’s inappropriate sexual touching called out the magazine that illegally released the records that not only revealed the identity of their brother Josh (who was a juvenile at the time), but also indirectly identified the victims.
Jill Dillard, the second daughter of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, told Kelly that she suspected there might be an agenda behind the story. “I mean, I know that the tabloids that released this, even have — you know, they’re used to exploiting women. They have the parent company –”
“Well, Bauer…they’re a major porn provider…” her sister Jessa Seewald interrupted.
“So I don’t know if they are — maybe their mindset, they’re just used to making objects out of women and maybe we just didn’t seem any different,” Seewald continued.
Jill and Jessa are members of the conservative Christian family that has been featured in the reality TV series 19 Kids and Counting, and the young women are spot on about the background of the company that publishes In Touch magazine.
Bauer Media Group, based in Hamburg, Germany, publishes 600 magazines, over 400 digital products, and 50 radio and TV stations around the world, including In Touch magazine, the publication that uncovered the story of the abuse in the Duggar home. They also traffic in porn — some of it Nazi-themed., as you’ll see on the next page.
The Wrap reported in 2013:
But an investigation by TheWrap has found that there is a darker side to the privately held company, including publication of at least one magazine appealing to neo-Nazis, as well as significant involvement in the distribution of pornography — including Nazi-themed porn movies.
These lend perspective to Bauer’s legal woes in the United States, including a $50 million defamation lawsuit by Tom Cruise, filed last October after two U.S.-based publications alleged he’d abandoned his daughter Suri. In fact, Bauer generates dozens of legal complaints worldwide each year about invasion of privacy or libel, according to a lawyer who has frequently opposed them.
The Duggar sisters are absolutely correct. In Touch and Bauer Media Group make money, in part, by exploiting women and trafficking in content that sexually objectifies women. The young women in the Duggar family who were victims of sexual abuse by their brother were victimized a second time by a magazine that treated them, not as accidental collateral damage in their honest efforts to report a legitimate news story, but as an integral part of a business model based on sexual exploitation of women. They exploited the sexual abuse suffered by the Duggar sisters for money, pure and simple. And they’ve done it with countless other women over the years. Disgusting.
No.
If a judge was involved, a courtroom was involved.
Or is the accused “minimizing” simply the pushback against the salacious world, that thinks it can hide behind the Duggars at the judgment, “Maximizing”?
“You can believe what you want believe. So can I.”
hmmm... It’s hard to argue with that. Of course, believing in something doesn’t make it true.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVjRiQw9KLw
Here’s perfect mom Michelle Duggar bending over and submitting to being dry humped by her pervert husband in public on national television and in front of her own child and her fiancée.
I’m trying to remember another church going Christian couple that did that and I’m drawing a blank.
The Duggars came first and they didn’t “rush” to the police or get therapy for their daughters or protect the daughters from repeat offenses. I don’t think this notoriety is having a chilling effect on parents reporting incestious assualt - that ship has sailed.
I don’t think people should have special rights just because they go on TV and their show is popular.
Their (victims) 'cult' religion probably looks more like a safe haven if they ever find FR threads. Gotta love these 'state' is their god worshipers.
I figured out that trying to talk with you is pointless, but I admire your tenacity and style. I mean, you’re still a moron, but you are very good at it.
FAKES?? geesh....even the timeline that you just gave PROVED Jim Bob and Michelle did EVERYTHING they could. What family EXPELS a child......that would have been awful for the ENTIRE family. He didn’t RAPE them....OMG...I cannot believe you are a mom and would send your child away.....cold.
Well, there you go. These warped opinions of yours means that you have a different priority than I do on this situation.
You, like the Duggars, first seek to PROTECT THE ABUSER.
The correct top priority in this situation is to PROTECT THE VICTIMS.
Of course the 14 year old molester needs to be removed immediately from the home. And enter therapy. Do you understand that if they had gotten Josh real “mandatory reporting” therapy, and left him in the home, ALL CHILDREN WOULD HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM THE HOME?? I bet the Duggars knew it. Which is why they chose to protect Josh instead. Jesus did not tell them that -— fear of this getting out taught them that.
You just said that removing a sex molester from the home would have been terrible for the whole family.
All I can do is shake my head. You actually said that.
Your point being that what you believe is true?
“But add an individual, you she do feel the necessity to damn, over and over and over again, someone who did wrong.”
When the family voluntarily puts themselves in the public eye and welcomes media attention?
Yes.
I do not submit to your judgment.
Then you are damning God.
No, that you are asserting that what you believe is true.
I a Christian and I understand that forgiveness can be separate from consequences. A family member may forgive their son’s killer and the court may reduce time served but doesn’t have to let him go and declare him innocent.
Yes, Duggar supporters seem to want Josh declared innocent by courts and by public opinion and further, the girls declared “fine” as if it’s “no harm, no foul.” The supporters want it to disappear as if it never happened, classified as normal mistake for that age, “hormones” etc. and since they believe this is “normal” then the girls cannot have been harmed so the damage to their lives has to be denied and the girls will just have to play along and deny it too once it’s declared “normal” behavior.
Maybe now some Freepers will stop referring to "InTouch" as their source for information.
You notice this is exactly where a busybody state leads?
It would not have happened in Jesus’ time. Maybe Josh would have been stoned, maybe not (it depended on number of witnesses, and they had to be of age).
He didn’t mention his feelings, he mentioned his thoughts. It’s his thoughts you hate so much. He didn’t say he wasn’t in control of his own thoughts.
LOL, yes, I hate his controlled thoughts. You're absolutely right. When someone expresses controlled thoughts about continuing punishment infinitely based solely on the possibility that someday their rage might be slaked, I do indeed hate that. Because to me, that's an expression of a particular type of insanity that has left millions of people dead across human history, and so the sane response to it is to hate it.
And while it might be a mystery to you, I also think he did indeed mention his feelings. In fact, I think he stated that his feelings are superior to his thoughts, to the the point of setting aside his thoughts and indulging his feelings until they're exhausted.
I think most people would agree with that interpretation of what he said. Indulging in punishment until feelings are satisfied is, generally, expressing feelings, even if communicated through very clear thoughts. In fact, the more clear the communication about such a thing, the more deliberately feelings are being indulged, IMO.
Well, I wouldn’t believe something if I didn’t think it was true. But what I meant was that believing isn’t enough. We can believe in something wholeheartedly but what we believe could be totally false. Unlike Peter Pan, wishing hard enough and believing hard enough won’t make us fly.
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