Thou shalt repent and buyeth the holy Duggar books at full retail pricing.
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.
“You are damning God by infinitely damning the Duggars. Don’t get cute and deny.”
I must have missed the no critiquing the Duggars while reading the Bible.
I didn’t say minimizing so I’m still a bit lost. I think I agreed with someone else saying it was sad to see FReepers minimizing these crimes. Still don’t get your context.
That’s a ridiculous statement.
“That wouldn’t matter if they did, you would still enjoy poking at them.”
Had the family not decided to enter the public eye, none of us would be talking about them.
It was their decision.
And when one enters the public eye, there is no such thing as only positive attention.
God might, but you sure as hell won’t.
Dig in your heels at the warnings.
“Who are you trying to help, when the victims themselves testify to their own healing in the matter based on the genuine sorrow of the boy? What is your goal?”
There is no law on the books or in society that states that if a victim forgives a perpetrator, that all of society must forgive the perpetrator and that there are no consequences.
Of course you hate it when the Duggars’ friends “blame the victim.”
Inconsistent and hypocritical much?
Why, to get the "truth" out there by posting things that aren't true and being nasty and hateful - to show she's a better person than the Duggars.
But God says you will sear your own soul that way. Getting it ready for the fires of hell.
Thou shalt repent and buyeth the holy Duggar books at full retail pricing.
What is not true?
Seewald said....the tabloids just used to making objects out of women and maybe we just didn’t seem any different”.
She’s revealing more than most will pick up on in that statement.
“But God says you will sear your own soul that way. Getting it ready for the fires of hell.”
I will be good. I have nothing to worry about.
However, someone that fondles little girls may have something to worry about.
I don’t know what rights you were referring to, but opening your very large family up to hundreds of hours of TV reality show filming seems to be a pretty statement of “we are an open book” so when that book gets read they really don’t have the fall back of “we want our privacy.” Intact it could be argued the Duggars are paid to be “public” entities.
See what I mean (post 167)? And didn’t even answer your question.
You’re exactly right PaMom....
When I get to hell which according to you is certain, the only joy I will have is watching your reaction when you show up.
Well done, Snickering Hound, well done.
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