Barbara Amiel responds to Steubenville.

[wolfie]

People don't become pedophiles, its likely just something wired in their brain like any other philia. But people DO become child abusers due to issues in their own childhood or other emotional problems. Abuse is a control / power issue. But treating both groups as one in the same prevents any possibility of helping anyone or reducing the chance of said crimes.

This fits in with the Michael Jackson case. Before his solo career, he was (from a very young age) in the Jackson 5, and never really had a chance to be a kid. Based on descriptions of Neverland, it sounds like he was another "Peter Pan" - the boy who never grew up. Why wouldn't someone be attracted to people in their (self-identified) peer group?

[Pixilated]

I make it a point to avoid like the plague anything that Amiel writes. She is so far out in the ozone layer that she's not even inhaling oxygen anymore. She's never had a rough time in her life (or at least none that money couldn't smooth over) and has zero empathy for anybody who's not at her economic level (translation: 99.99% of humanity). She's basically irrelevant to life as we know it and the only reason I can think of that any publication pays for her stuff is Hubby's money.

[Gravekeeper]

She's basically irrelevant to life as we know it and the only reason I can think of that any publication pays for her stuff is Hubby's money.

Pretty much. Her husband owned or had connections to many of the publications she wrote for or appeared in. She lost a lot of her positions in 2004 when Conrad got locked up.

She was then immediately rehired by Macleans in 2005 when it was taken over by the former editor in chief of the National Post ( Owned by her husband ). So the moment one of Conrad's ol' buddies took over Macleans she got her old job back.

[Ree]

She was then immediately rehired by Macleans in 2005 when it was taken over by the former editor in chief of the National Post ( Owned by her husband ). So the moment one of Conrad's ol' buddies took over Macleans she got her old job back.

OK...that explains it. Thanks.
I eventually made a point of ignoring just about anything related to Conrad Black, because I got sick of hearing and reading about it.

That's why I never really paid attention to the "coincidence" of her return to McLean's magazine coinciding with Conrad's buddy taking over.