who agrees?

Yes.

As far as I know he has not been accused of abusing his wife, girlfriend, molesting a child, exposing his breast at a major televised event, or gossiping about his siblings on national TV. I heard he is a faithful husband as well. I hope that is true.

I like him the most after Michael out of the Jackson family.

MikeMatronik said:

I agree as well, considering that it was Marion (not Michael) that had the worst of Joseph's wrath during their childhood years. You think because of this, Marion would be the most mess up in the head sometimes. But it isn't the case at all.

TonyVanDam said:

Well, abuse affects different people in different ways. And because Marlon is not under the spotlight as much as his other siblings (Michael and Janet), we have no idea how abuse affected his life. But I think he turned out alright. I like the fact that he has not been involved in any scandals.

It's interesting that he left the nest early and married a girl who was his pen friend...and they are still married. He also made fortune with realestate and TV.

Absolutely...not

Because honestly that's unfair. You can't judge the PUBLIC actions of 3 or 4 members of a family and judge all but one insane or disfunctional. First of all, you never met them, so you can't judge one way or the other. You can call Marlon "the quiet one", or the least popular, but just judging sanity? Come on. And if this family was so fucked up, how come he haven't heard about one Jackson grandchild on drugs or in jail, or clubbing or doing crazy shit.

Thriller81 said:

Well if my name was "Jermadgesty" I would for sure do all I can to get out of the press.

Thriller81 said:

You make a good point. We cannot judge ALL the Jacksons insane.

However, I was comparing to him to the most notorious ones (Michael, Janet, Jermaine, LaToya, Randy, Joseph, Katherine). Compared to these individuals, I find him alright.

MikeMatronik said:

The pen pal was from New Orleans (my hometown).

Rodya24 said:

This is not a "perfect" family, no family is perfect. And I know a lot of Jackson fans like to say they are perfect. But it's not right or fair to judge people or a family who had there dirty laundry aired out in public.

And I hate to say this because it sounds like something a die-hard would say, but I think people call this family out the most is because they're the most popular. I can't imagine what the press would say about the Debarge family if they were as popular, but fortunately for them, they're not, because we'll be talking about how fucked up they are, but it's still unfair.

Thriller81 said:

Again you make a good point. In EVERY FAMILY, there are fucked up individuals.

MikeMatronik said:

There's only one responds I can give to this quote; PRINCE Rogers Nelson

Thriller81 said:

It was a joke...

I think Jackie is pretty normal. Besides him cheating on his wife with Paula Abdul, I've never heard any dirt on him. And cheating on your wife when you're a rock star is pretty normal.

Rebbie and Tito are also normal. Hell, if you really push it, you could say that there are an even amount of normals, and an even amount of whacked out.

"Normal"----Marlon, Jackie, Tito, Rebbie
"Whacky"----Mike, Toya, Jermaine, Randy
"On the Cusp"----lil Janet.

Kinda random, but...

Having plastic surgery does NOT make you insane, but speaking of Jackson family quirks, something I've always found really peculiar is how the whole damn family (except for... Jackie, is it?) got nose jobs. What's up with that?

Jackie, Tito, Marlon, and Rebbie are pretty normal.
With LaToya, she was sheltered and when she got out there, she made alot of mistakes.

Michael? I love the brotha but I know he's wierd. I always think, take away the plastic surgery and the scandals, he's still the same guy.

Janet wears a wonderful mask, let's just say that

what exactly does 'normal' mean? how can we possibly know what marlon jackson's life is about, he is not famous like his brothers and sisters so yes he will seem to be living a quiet normal life someplace, but how do we know that?

Samuel seems to be fairly levelheaded.

sosgemini said:

He used to be a crackhead.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Y'all are stoopid.

sosgemini said:

don't be so sure of that:

Stoney Jackson is probably the most well behaved Jackson.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

don't bring Stoney into this!

y'all know Jesse had baby right?

bboy87 said:

what the hell is that?

bboy87 said:

man, i almost woke up my son.

There's no such thing as a sane Jackson.

Marlon just seems sane because we haven't seen much of him. If he was all over the place like Michael, Janet, LaToya and Jermaine, we'd think he was just as nuts as they are.

How do you define 'sanity' and 'normalcy'?

A breast.
Child support.
Cosmetic surgery
Physical child abuse [beatings, whoopings, according to Joe, those are two different things]
Child molestation [accused]
Adultery


All of these are all common occurrences in life. I remember reading some blog-bopper saying that the Jacksons are "America's embarrassment". Well I'll be damned. All those aforementioned things happen in everyday life with everyone. Its funny, if you've ever visited these blogs you'll see everyone talking about how "creepy" or "scary" they'll describe this type of shit. Where do they live, Utah? When I read America's embarrassment I screamed out laughing. A musical family in entertainment is the United States of America's embarrassment? Yeah, foreign nations hate America because of the Jacksons

You know whose had a real, fucked up life? Aileen Wuornos . Slept with her brother at a young age, nearly every family member of hers had died one by one, later became a prostitute, was raped/beaten by some of her Johns, killed seven men to make a living by jacking their cars, taking money and/or whatever else they had for herself so she and her lesbian lover to live off of, was diagnosed with lunacy, was sent to prison on death row more then a decade and later died in 2003.

Yeah, thats what I thought.

floetcist said:

Well, since you are mentioning how some see the Jacksons as an "American embarrassment," to be honest, outside of the United States, at least in Japan and South Korea, when the Jacksons are mentioned, no one gives a shit about the rest of the family except for Michael. Janet is seen as his little sister with minimal talent who has had dance songs which have done well in Japan; a black Madonna without the iconic status. All the other shit (accusations of child abuse, numerous plastic surgeries, homophobic beliefs of the parents; the abusive father) does not get much attention here when compared to the UK and the US.

But I can understand why a number of people find the actions and beliefs of some of the Jacksons disturbing. I, for one, find the homophobia of the parents disgusting.

Well, they're Jehovah's Witnesses - so isn't surprising to me.