Brandy Says Joey Dauben is Retarded

As Brandy comes back on her blog with her points, a back and forth with her and mommy dauben has ensued.  Most of this is over things like "I told you X on the phone, not Y" and then "no you said Y on the phone to me not X" of which I really dont care.  But one part of Brandy's post does interest me, and its this part:

I think, according to things Joey has told me, he was molested as a child, more than once, and he is retarded in a child-like state.  So there it is, Joey is a retarded kid, in the most technical sense.

“Were you ever molested or raped as a kid?” “I think maybe, I think my ______________ molested me but I don’t exactly remember.”

 

Ok, I know what she is saying and I agree with her point, but using "retarded" is incorrect at least in the terms of how we use the word today.  I'm not being the PC police as I have no problem with that word but its not correctly applied here.  A mentally or physically retarded person is someone that has a mental or physical deficiency that causes their condition, they can't help it.  Joey, over time, intentionally choose to be in the "retarded" state that he is.  That is why I make fun of him, its his fault.  I wouldn't ever make fun of someone who is deformed because of conditions that are not due to their own causes, thats not funny at all.  Joey Dauben is mentally deformed now by choice, not an act of God.

I dont know if Joey was abused or not as a child, but I will say his journey to the dark side started by abuse by his father.  I'm not talking about physical or sexual abuse, I'm talking about mental abuse.  That being that daddy took the stupid that was in his head and put it into young joey's head.  This was the basis for Joey's warped worldview.  But so what, kids go through this all the time everywhere and when they become of age they throw away that part of them.  Happens every single day.  In Joey's case, not only did he not expunge his mind from this he used it as his basis for his life's crusade.  Joey could have been a very bright and productive member of society, he had the capacity.  He then used religion as the means to verify whatever it is that he does, as he is incapable of doing that by facts or reason.  "God has called me to do X" is how Joey would start of each mission, it gives him free reign to say and do whatever he wants, he was never accountable for the very actions he held everyone else to.

So now lets talk about what Brandy was saying, and I have said this before on here and I will say it again.  If the charges in Navarro County are true, I think that what really happened then is a consensual sexual relationship between two young boys.  Joey is not an adult male, not physically, mentally, or emotionally.  Yes his driver's license says one thing but he is not what it says by any measuring factor other than time.  So far it looks like Joey's defense is "I didn't do it and they are just trying to set me up because I tried to expose corruption".  This may fly among his fellow koolaid drinkers, but once the gavel comes down and they are in a court room, this is going to be blown out of the water.  I think the only truthful defense he may have is to show that this was nothing more than consensual sex between two young curious boys.  Anyone who knows joey, and his entire life for that matter, can back that claim up 100%, hell I bet even the accuser would even agree to that.