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COME ON, guys: inside or outside, gay or straight, this is not a very difficult equation, to figure out. Justin Bieber's Dad, Jeremy, is the creep, weirdo, and sponger of ALL TIME - - - and no mistake. Justin himself had a strange and difficult childhood, and it is a miracle he is still alive. (IMHO.)
JB's Mother, Pattie Mallette, was a girl who endured sexual abuse and rape, through her childhood and early teen years. . . and coped with it by seeking comfort in alcohol, marijuana, and LSD. (When she wasn't suicidal - and she attempted suicide by throwing herself in front of a truck, when she was 17. Pursuant to which, she spent some considerable time in a mental hospital.)
Not long after that, Ms. Mallette discovered that she was pregnant by her sometime boyfriend, none other than. . . Mr. Jeremy Bieber. She has revealed, in her autobiography, that she was "pressured" to abort Justin - though she has always been very quiet about who
did the "pressuring". One might suppose that (as often happens in these instances) the errant Dad had something to do with the "pressuring": but, while I have my suspicions. . . I couldn't possibly comment, on this ;-)
*Justin Bieber himself has been slammed in the press, for having spoken out recklessly against abortion as a teenager - - - and, while I consider myself a moderate on this issue, and am FULLY in support of a woman's right to make her OWN choices, about her OWN health - I fully understand why JB said, what he said, when he said it. It is a personal issue, for him.*
Suffice it to say that Ms. Mallette, having recently decided (apparently quite sincerely and fervently) to convert to the Christian faith, cleaned up her act; stopped her drug use altogether; decided to keep her baby; and set about raising little Justin as bet she knew how. And, it was a life marked by poverty, welfare-dependence, and hardship. As a little tot, Justin Bieber sang in the streets of Stratford, Ontario - because he HAD to sing, in the streets. Those coins in his cap helped them buy FOOD. And, as you probably all know, for all his faults - JB is a generous benefactor of food banks all across Canada, because, he says, he REMEMBERS the days when he and his Mother were reliant for the very next meal, on food banks.
Then, thanks to the miracle of YouTube, JB was seen and heard, and became, first a minor, then a major, Internet sensation. The über-manager, Scooter Braun, discovered Justin. . . and the rest is history.
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So, enter, DEAR OLD DAD: Jeremy Bieber. Mr. Bieber, Senior, is a former professional wrestler, and nightclub bouncer, who, after the wrestling jobs dried up, made a living in occasional construction-work. Ms. Mallette has attested, in her autobiography and various interviews, that when she was his young (17-year-old) lover, he was heavily alcoholic, and evinced a "Jekyll-and-Hyde" personality, and was menacing and vicious, when drunk. In any case, he left her, before Justin was born, and wandered off and married another woman, and sired another couple of children, in other precincts.
But. . . lo and behold!. . . as so often happens, in such circumstances, the moment little Justin made good, and began earning millions upon millions of dollars, dear Papa developed a sudden "nostalgia" for his long-lost (abandoned, and forgotten) son, and insinuated himself quite forcefully, back into the picture. Particularly, as Justin entered his later teens, accompanying him to all sorts of parties, and stuff like that. (Of course you all know the story about Justin and his Dad smoking so much weed, on a chartered Lear-jet, the pilot had to land. . . because he couldn't FUNCTION responsibly, anymore. . . )
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This latest, "Son, I admire your penis," tweet, is of a piece with everything else that Bieber, Sr., has ever done. Is this weird??? Well,
OF COURSE it's f***ing weird. . . and (Mike) it's not a "gay" or "straight" thing, either - it's a
FATHER-SON thing.
My Dad has known that I am gay for over 30 years, and he is a wonderful and kind support, to me. . . and to every gay friend I have ever had, incidentally. . . but we have never had a conversation about mutual
PENIS-SIZE. Honestly, has any of YOU. . . has anyone in this whole
Broke Straight Boys audience or universe. . . ever sat down with his
DAD, and laughed and talked about how BIG the other's
PENIS IS, or how nice it looks, or. . . "what you FEED it???" If you ever had the OPPORTUNITY to HAVE such a discussion, with your DAD, would you choose to do so? (I'm guessing, for most of us ~ I don't care whether you are gay or straight or trans ~ the answer would be. . . "
no.")
I'm sorry, but what JB's Dad said to him (though maybe I am being far too uptight and "WASP" about all of this): strikes me as being flat-out
weird, creepy, and dysfunctional. I do not think it is appropriate or healthy, in ANY WAY WHATSOEVER. I
DO think it's just one more example of Justin's f***ed-up Dad, trying much too hard, in a very f***ed-up WAY, to treat his SON, as some kind of "buddy", or "fraternity 'bro'" ~ and more than that, a fraternity bro, from
Fraternity X!!! Totally SICK and messed-up, in my opinion.
Now, you should all go to bed tonight - and thank GOD, or EVOLUTION, or whatever-the-hell you believe in, that you didn't have a Dad as weird and irresponsible and messed-up, as
Justin Bieber's DAD. And if you did. . . all my thoughts and prayers and love are with you.
"A" :-((((
