True enough . I find myself less and less willing to defend his present actions while his music gets more enjoyable to me personally , go figure but back in the day I really didn ' t get the problem people had . The dude was just an average kid pop star and people were questioning his gender and sexuality and fantasizing about hurting him or whatever when he was just a teenager . Part of me still feels like I have to cut him some slack because one huge chunk treats you that way , and then the other huge chunk are the rabid , obsessive unhealthy tween fans that worship you . Can ' t imagine growing up with those extreme ends of the spectrum and not as much of a vocal middle ground . That ' s not conducive to growing up welladjusted .