lunabee34

Oh, it makes sense to me; if you read their comments, pretty much all of them haven't read the transcripts, or made up their minds about the case before they read them. And they buy into the whole thing about the seventies being much more sexually-liberated, as if that's automatically a good thing rather than just a distancing tactic so they don't have to face, y'know, reality.

And there's a generous helping of denial. I know how that is; I have a sort-of friend who served a prison sentence for murder when he was in his twenties (he's in his forties now), and when I first found out six years ago it was very difficult to reconcile the person I know with the person he was. My gut reaction at the time was to say "Well, I don't really know if he's guilty or not, but that was then and this is now." I didn't want to find out the details of the case; I just wanted to live in a bubble where I could deal with *only* what I already knew, the person I'd gotten to know. I got past that "bury your head in the sand" response, but it was hard work. And it's still very difficult to hold the two sides of him in my head - the brilliant Latin student and the murderer.

Of course, again, that is a different situation because my friend served his time.