Quote Originally Posted by eachpassingphase View Post
I remember lots of politicians, advocacy groups, churches etc. absolutely losing their minds over his outfits and lyrics. As if a creepy contact lens and calling yourself the Antichrist was the worst thing in the world. But the way he claims to have treated women in the book wasn't really a focus for most of the controversy in the 90's. And I feel like the constant outrage porn generated at that time sort of contributed to a lot of people ignoring the problem signs for so long. You can only accuse a guy of being responsible for so many school shootings, suicides and Satanic cults before people just stop listening to any criticism at all. Even if it's fair criticism.

Anyway, I'm not gonna be burning any records or anything. Seems wasteful to me. But I'm not going to give him any money in the future or wear his merch in public. I only have like two very old shirts left anyhow.
That's the disturbing part now, that people either didn't notice or couldn't look past the gimmick to take such things seriously. 20 years a woman could have come out with these accusations towards him, and most everyone would give it at least a minute's thought towards being a publicity stunt. We didn't have the amplification of social media to help support victims like that, and they would have been crucified either by his fan base or the media for even being associated with him.