It doesn’t shock me that so many women stan for Kelly because all these dudes had “fans”:

I just googled him. None of his so-called friends didn’t think there was something amiss with a 33yr old man “dating” a high school sophomore????!!!

I agree we have to start with our own communities I just again feel like because so many of us grown up seeing this behavior it has been normalized. Its the reason this dude isn’t canceled yet in the black community also the marginalization of our black woman is a big factor. Imagine if most of Bill Cosby’s victims…

he’s not going to abuse ME because I’m the only one who loves him and treats him well.

I hope this moves us closer to examining our need for sacred cows. I’ve been in show business for years. And it’s no secret even amongst the white folks in the business that guys like Weinstein are able to get away with with it because of pure power and money. Black stars are able to hide behind the sacred cow status…

Age of consent isn’t stopping R. Kelly from abusing, though. After his 2008 acquittal he switched it up, and now his targets are right at the consent age limit of 17 for Illinois. And let’s not forget Asante McGee, the 35 year old superfan he groomed for two years before moving her into his Atlanta house and starting…

I think that ties into #8. You hear a lot of “couldn’t be me” when something happens. After the Kavanaugh hearings, I was watching a panel of people on CNN who were asked what they thought and one woman said she 100% believed Christine Blasey Ford. Another woman who did not believe Dr. Ford was like, well, I know if I…

You wasted your time, it takes a certain level of unabashed assholery to willfully overlook the actions of a GROWN ass person and focus on the actions of an impressionable child...

That one white juror on the sex tape trial they interviewed utterly stunned me. He basically said that he didn’t care about the testimony, he just didn’t like how the witnesses looked and how they spoke. He voted to acquit R. Kelly purely out of racist, sexist bullshit against the black women who were testifying. That…

Lots I could say...but I’ll just leave it at something that is also *quite disturbing* is Robert’s younger brother recapping the abuse they both experienced at the hands of their older sister. Lord, the layers of PTSD, for so many involved, are absolutely mind-blowing:

I think maybe on some level that’s why they attack the victims. Like, if you know that it could have been you at any time, for no good reason, just because you happened to catch the eye of a sexual predator, that’s scary “go hide under your bed and never come out shit”. But if it’s their fault, and they did something…

Agreed, there is always someone trying to point out that they knew, or wanted it or got burned because they played with fire.  This is why they cannot consent, because they are considered mentally undeveloped, no matter what some creepy ass says.

I had to ream someone out yesterday as she defended this nonsense by talking about being a teenager going to concerts and trying to get back stage and she knew what would happen but she was young and hormonal and up for it. The blatantly stupid fool refused to  understand that even if the girls were up for it that he…

Oh no doubt. I stated in a different post that I briefly met Kitti Jones on one of the aforementioned tours. She was basically held prisoner and wasn’t seen much if at all. I remember backstage that nigga never allowed anybody to use their phones... Didn’t matter who it was. If you were caught using a phone or taking…

6. I both genuinely don’t understand and genuinely understand how R. Kelly has managed to evade prison.

I had to watch it. Sat back after and gave a thought. Your points are solid across the board. For me? My take was very close to your point 6.

What’s heartbreaking to me is there are a LOT of black women defending R. Smelly and blaming the girls! I stopped going to the girl who does my hair 3 years ago because of her defense of R. Kelly!

Look let me preface this by saying I’m going to get creamed for this but growing up in philly we all knew an R Kelly. They were the guys in Escalades picking up the girls we wanted in front of the high school and we all knew that wasn’t her family the school board did nothing the parents did nothing the police did…

Still haven’t watched it but its sitting on my DVR waiting for me to get up the nerve. It really puts things into perspective for those of us who were fortunate enough to not be abused. All the times I saw some grown man take my classmate off campus, when someone comments on how young you look but still chooses to…

I want this to happen because if you got them together in a room he might just be able to get Trump to admit how much he wants to fuck his daughter.