I'm not really massively familiar with Marilyn Manson's music. I think I could name three songs, and I've never been a big fan of him, and his Antichrist Devil worshipping nonsense just makes me roll my eyes.
I watched this documentary though, and quite honestly, I was disgusted and shocked, and it takes a lot to do that to me ... How he used and abused these teenage girls (who pretty much were all under age, even though he denies this,) is disgusting. He manipulated them and drew them in, like some kind of cult leader.
And these young women he was in relationships with, were used and abused - especially Evan Rachel Wood... And it's awful that a few women are still obsessed with Manson and are calling other women liars. And Manson's lawyer is calling them liars, and laughing at them like they're silly little girls, who are just attention-seeking. The mockery of these victims is so bad that some have gone into hiding, suffered mental health problems, and had their career ruined. It's easy to see why some women don't come forward when they are sexually abused. They are scared of not being believed, and being mocked and derided.
And because of the statute of limitations in the USA, (12-15 years I think it is,) there is not very much they can do ... I think he's paid a few girls off, but most of the cases have been thrown out of court, because it's basically 'his word against hers.' Some of them consented, but as the above poster said, they might have consented - but it might not necessarily be what they wanted. It's probably what they thought they should do because they've been coerced and manipulated into doing it.
Not even remotely the same, but I was goaded and coerced into smoking when I was 16 and first started working in a factory. (I stopped at 21.) I started because I wanted to fit in with the women there, and thought I was 'cool' doing it! But yeah, young girls are vulnerable and can be drawn into dangerous situations that can be harmful to them, because they want to 'fit in,' IYSWIM.
It's just absolutely horrific and shows how dangerous it can be if there are vulnerable or shy girls who are trying to do things that men want them to do to be cool, and make the men like them. Even now, I don't think Manson has actually been called into question for anything or gone to court or gone to jail or anything ... And I find it just outrageous.
He is also extremely unattractive, and quite an ugly man. And I have no idea whatsoever why all these teenage girls worshipped him! I'm glad my daughters were born a few years too late so they couldn't be obsessed with him (they weren't born till the mid/late 1990s.) They were just fans of emo bands. like Paramore, Fall Out Boy, and 30 seconds to Mars. And even though their music was a bit grungy, they were quite clean living bands.
What Manson does to Evan Rachel Wood - on the video they were making is horrific ... You can tell that she wasn't enjoying it. I think (like a lot of women sadly,) she felt that she had to do it, because he coerced her into it by saying the images would be blurred out on the final cut. (They weren't!) Some young women do things they would rather not do to 'fit in' or be 'cool,' or to keep their man. Some women can't see (at the time) that they are being used and abused, by disgusting, perverted, controlling men, and it makes me desperately sad.
I'm hoping we've got a new generation of women these days who will refuse to do this kind of thing, and will not do anything just because a man says so. I genuinely pray for women seeing this. Manson is just an abuser through and through. But because of the statue of limitations, there's not much anybody can do.