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.
I guess as a Jew you don’t understand what Christian forgiveness is......it’s ONLY given if one is sorry.
But no one knows from the outside what is in someone’s heart. Those girls / women have no chance. They are part of their cult plus part of a TV show, a product, if you will. So both their father’s need to be famous and Rich, plus maybe their husbands’ commands, and just the brainwashing that might have come along with this that “what brother did was no big deal” might have affected their forgiveness.
Yes, truly, it is very hard for Jews to understand the theology of Christians, forgiving strangers for their sins. In Judaism only a victim can forgive, and some sins are unforgivable because they are so permanent, like murder.
“Did you ever consider for an instant that any of the victims might stumble upon your disgusting repetition.”
No, but I have considered the possibility that the victims might stumble upon the sight of their mom and dad running to a TV camera to tell the world what Josh did to them.
“Oh, NOT a Dugger fan, do not watch the tv show. My tv came with a remote that allows me the freedom to watch what I chose or turn it off.”
And the Duggar family has the freedom not to go on TV and promote their media circus.
Not government employee, nor a perfect mom, nor thick (your not so charming stick poking my way). Just brutally honest and NOT looking at the Duggars with rose colored glasses.
I truly believe extended family would WANT to do what’s best for a kid as mixed up as Josh apparently was. I would also think that the extended family would recognize that the situation, in the Duggar home, could escalate with further (possibly worse) harm being done to the girls. And if I was one of the “extended” family was sought to give aide and counsel, I would certainly have told JimBob and Michelle, they all the publicity they are drawing to their kids might NOT be such a good thing given the families current circumstances.
I have honestly tried to rationally discuss this issue, and I’m growing weary of personal zings...I’ll just agree to disagree with you. Period.
I’m trying, but I don’t understand what you mean.
Likewise
A tyrant called me a moron. I guess that is a compliment coming from a tyrant, that I am not “smart” enough to be a tyrant too!
Really? You don’t think this story hurts these young women? I saw the interview with them and I saw their pain.
That does not change absolute truth and God WILL force you. No choice on your part.
So we can pretty much list you among those who approve
of incestuous molestation and hypocrisy for profit.
Perhaps you could produce some dancing letters to that effect.
“Then you are damning God.”
How am I damning God by critiquing the Duggars penchant for media attention?
You’re catching on.
Excellent post. Why couldn’t I have said it like that?
If they dare say that something accused isn’t true or isn’t as bad as portrayed, you and the vicious world call that “Minimizing.”
When the family voluntarily puts themselves in the public eye and welcomes media attention?
Yes.
Then why not also acknowledge what that same family did to address and heal the situation? Where is it inadequate? Why call it accepted, when they did not accept it? Why dismiss what they did and act as it never happened? Why choose that approach, when the facts deny your interpretation of events? 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?
You are damning God by infinitely damning the Duggars. Don’t get cute and deny.
“Really? You don’t think this story hurts these young women? I saw the interview with them and I saw their pain.”
If story hurts these young women, then the family should stay off TV.
They still get to keep the money they made, though. Maybe they are weeping all the way to their bank backlog now.
If it HAS to be put in crass economic terms.
Yes, indeed - in fact it is they causing it to be “minimized” since they grossly exaggerate and prompt it to be corrected. What it was is clearly horrible enough - exaggerating it beyond what it is what prompts it to be minimized.
That wouldn’t matter if they did, you would still enjoy poking at them.
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