• MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    steven tyler proves that once you are good enough, you can do what you want. in a “who cares what they say, that’s steven fucking tyler” kind of way. it’s not necessarily entirely great, but as far as dressing how you want, hell yeah.

    i mean, he got away with bringing liv tyler (i’m sorry, liv fucking tyler, she’s amazing too) into this world. the whole story around that is scary as fuck. she’s great, but like, yikes.

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      19 hours ago

      Boomers will complain about rap music being about sex and drugs while nodding along to a Ted Nugent song about getting and giving STDs.

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      20 hours ago

      I feel icky saying it but I think a lot has to do with the consenting nature of said 14 year olds. I don’t think riding the tour bus to the next state was really looked at like trafficking, and they weren’t coerced into attending the concert. It doesn’t make it right, but it feels different when a popular known sex icon rock star does it than a creepy, overweight real estate mogul and his super rich friends literally steals girls away from their lives with (sometimes) false promises of being a model.

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        18 hours ago

        I don’t get the downvotes, I agree with you. It’s not okay, and yes, it’s legally rape, but it doesn’t have to be traumatizing the victims in the same way as the examples you also mentioned. And that’s not an excuse, but a reasonable answer to the question you responded to.

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            5 hours ago

            The critical thinking required is to admit that someone under the age of consent cannot consent. The attractive rock star is just as evil as the hideous Epstein client.

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    21 hours ago

    Give him a perm did he looks exactly the way my friend’s mom looked in the 90s 😭 And she did give us alcohol under 21, lmao. It worked because she gave us the nastiest, cheapest premixed mudslide possible and it repelled us from alcohol for a few more years.