She can think it was a positive experience while society as a whole can condemn it. That’s why there are laws, which apply to everyone - because of social norms/mores. Not fucking children should NOT be this controversial!

Okay, but would you say that now? If a prominent musician today did this with a current 15 year old–exact same story, it all happened the exact same way, just in 2016–how would you feel about it? Would you be so reluctant to be disgusted? If the girl said she enjoyed it and had such a good time? Or do you think you so…

Bro whatever planet you decide to move to when you get sick of this shit on Earth, please find me because I’m going with you. The straw man arguments, the pedo/ephebosplaining, the cognitive dissonance, just all of it regarding how this dude straight up was having sex with minor CHILDREN and supplying them with liquor…

Well, considering the age of consent at that time was 15 in California and she says she was when they had sex, I guess the answer is...NO.

It’s far more egregious than “slightly gross”

agreed. He groomed her and then raped her a few months later, it was STILL RAPE

I don’t think anyone is laboring under the delusion that something can be done about it other than state whether they think Bowie is or is not a rapist. He’s dead, and the time for any prosecution of any crime he might have committed is long since past. But this incident certainly potentially opens a dialog on a…

That’s why the stat laws are the way they are.

These people were saying that as teenagers they loved having sex with adults, and have no regrets. They entirely remove the adults’ responsibility in those situations. Again, I’m glad everyone remembers these encounters fondly, but the adult in those situations were still wrong.

I mean its more than a slightly gross thing. It is rape. Children cannot consent to sex with adults. Yeah, I’m glad that she still feels okay with it today, but she definitely wasn’t the only 13 or 14 year old he slept with (by her own account, they also had a threesome with her friend who was less than a year older)…

I loved Bowie’s music, but a 14 year old can’t legally consent. He’s a rapist whether she liked the experience or not.

No, no... you misunderstand... her kids are white.

I can’t speak for all of them, but my cousin (who is an avowed gun nut) said he hopes all ‘mentally ill’ people get guns and kill themselves because they’re weak and should die.

I wonder how many people on Reddit are openly speculating if she made up her story about being murdered.

“Besides that I have stage 3 melanoma.”

“I want a pencil.”

BAD KINJA! This comment doesn’t understand takeout vs. delivery and yet got 100+ stars?

I think you meant, ‘if you order delivery’. Takeout only puts you, the customer, at risk since you have to, you know, go get it.

This hubris of insisting that you know, and claim superior moral connection to, what a dead man would have said or done in response to a modern phenomenon is quite possibly the most arrogant thing it is possible for human kind to do. It is one of the larger reasons why I permanently left christianity.

You're being sarcastic, but both historically and scripturally hatred is a core element of Christianity.