My friend is a Melanie defender
Okay I'm not sure if this is the right sub to post this but oh well. People on here are probably smarter than me so.
So I have this one friend who has always been a big Melanie fan. After the allegations came out she still believed her. She never elaborated too much on it, so I never brought it too much. As time went on, I did start to grow more of a backbone and I was trying to actively argue with her on some of her defenses.
But anyway. So she recently asked me to make an edit of a Melanie song. I didn't wanna do it. I still told her I would anyway. And I started doing it, though I never had an intention of finishing it. So just now I told her I'm not comfortable with editing to Melanie. And oh boy. The thing she replied with was...
She told me that victims don't cosplay their abusers, and don't make AI videos of the abuser confessing. I could easily debunk that one since it's the most perfect victim mentality EVER. She literally admitted that she knows people cope differently but she thinks..no 'real sa victim' would do that..?
Then she started going on about how Timothy met Melanie when she was a minor(is that even true?? Everything says that Melanie was 19 when they met). And then she said that it's clear that Timothy groomed Melanie and then backstabbed her to steal her fans? I really don't believe this but I also have no idea how to argue against that either. I did also see a lot of people saying Timothy was getting Melanie drunk??
... So basically this is just me asking for advice on what to say.