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I can confidently say Lyle Menendez is one of the bravest men in the entire world, and I am so fucking aggravated with how the show has portrayed him.
Imagine you spent all your life trying to protect your baby brother from the abuse you suffered from, just for it to happen anyways.
And all this time you try so hard to put aside your pain and be strong for him, knowing he looks up to you, and knowing you are the only person in the world who can protect him from the two monsters in your life. Two monsters who happen to be the two people you’re supposed to trust the most.
And you are losing your hair from stress, and losing your brother due to your father, and losing your feelings of safety because your parents are a ticking time bomb that have been ready to go off your whole life.
So you do the one thing you think is the best option, and you and your brother shoot them dead.
And later on, you are put in a court room, having to discuss and relive all the terrible things that have ever happened to you in front of all these strangers and media cameras staring at you.
And your brother is there. Your brother who’ve you tried to hide the pain from for so long is across from you as you have to recount the vile things that have happened to you. And you have to watch him cry while you’re trying to keep yourself together.
Then later on, you guys get sentenced to life for trying to make sure you both get to live another day. And you’re forced to spend your mid 20s, to 30s, to 40s, and now 50s in prison, not getting to see your brother for decades until 2018.
And you know what you get out of it? You know what your payment is for suffering your entire life? For carrying the world on your shoulders for years ever since you were a kid?
You get portrayed as a psychopathic, egotistic, idiotic asshole in a show made by the creator of glee. You are constantly made fun of for your hair loss and the fact you have to wear a toupee, and you’re written as a completely devoid of empathy and unfeeling monster, who treats his brother like shit and only cares about himself. You are also being sexualized to death, and with your own brother as well.
Oh, and not to mention: the show basically says you FAKED your emotions and tears in court. Yeah, that time you were at your most vulnerable and bravely telling your abuse story even when you knew a lot of people wouldn’t understand? Fake! Totally and utterly fake. Apparently you were the actor in your family all along…
Lyle has been treated like shit his entire life. He was a child, a BABY when his parents started violating him. He didn’t even know how to ride a bike yet when it started. He barely had the chance for life yet. Please, media, leave this man and his brother alone. I NEVER wanna see this portrayal of Lyle again.
Unless I talk about how I finished the Netflix show, one last time: Fuck you Ryan Murphy. And stop doing this to victims. Stop disrespecting them.
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New Girl: Nick and Jess
It's always you. I always knew.
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These brains are terrible. And such, such small portions!
SPOOKY SEASON 🧠 NEW GIRL 2.06 “Halloween”
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Cooper and Nick recreating the photo of Erik and Lyle Menendez
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TAEYEON 태연 'Letter To Myself' Schedule Poster
TAEYEON 태연 The 6th Mini Album 〖Letter To Myself〗
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Hi guys! Just wanted to come on here and share this interesting fact about Lyle!
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Jill Lansing: If your brother couldn’t go, would you have left? Lyle Menendez: No, I would have never left without my brother
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Lyle Menendez in his letter to his little brother Erik
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“We alone know the truth. We alone know the secrets of our family’s past. I do not look forward to broadcasting them around the country. —from a seventeen-page letter written by Lyle to Erik, June 1990”
Excerpt From The Menendez Murders
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