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DiscussionMini-rant about Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story on Netflix
Has anyone else been watching this? We just watched the episode where the father confesses to the wife that his mother supposedly fondled him as a toddler... I just wanted to rant that I found this bit the least believable and annoying that they felt the need to, as usual, displace the blame for male predation and male violence on to a mother figure. In this same episode, Jose Menendez, the rapist father, is shown calling his mother late at night to accuse her of abusing him. Of course, we have absolutely no evidence that this part of the story is rooted in anything real and it's a complete confabulation on the part of the writers. It's just so odd to me the anxiety society has with "naming the problem" and the hysteria to displace the blame on to women. The show also tries to paint Kitty Menendez as almost entirely deserving of her fate.