Diddy Documentary Review | Is 50 Months Enough of a Reckoning?
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Trigger Warning: Sexual Abuse, Intimate Partner Violence, DV
As I finished this emotionally and spiritually draining documentary - two quotes kept ringing in my head: "That's how I got famous - from a tragedy". Of course this tragedy, where nine young people lost their lives, was just the start of the tragedies and fires that would follow Sean Combs, because he was responsible for each and every one of them.
I believe there are a number of other individuals who are also responsible - or at the bare minimum complicit - for turning a blind eye, prioritizing their career, or relying on someone else to say something when they saw the harm that was being done. I'm not sure if 51 months is enough of a reckoning, to me personally, but as someone who believes in Hell....51 months is a small stone in the pond of eternity.
One quick clarification for nuance: Not all men who experience childhood trauma become abusive. I wanted to highlight a statistical pattern shaped by socialization and power structures. Women experience childhood abuse at the same or higher rates but tend to internalize it differently. Pain often becomes self-blame or anxiety, instead of outward expressions of violence. Social consequences reinforce this because women/girls, especially BIack and brown children, who externalize aggression are punished early and severely by schools, adults, and the justice system.
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