I mean, it’s pretty simple. As much as people like to associate bigotry with the Deep South and rednecks (and there’s some truth to that), those guys have no power. The actual people in power in this country are East and West Coast urban rich people- bankers and business owners and media personalities and investors.

Se…

Except that Theodon was a decent leader without him.

He’s quite young. Think he’ll run for Senate after this? President? 

Or accept that teenage rebellion is actually a relatively recent thing, and mostly Western, that was created around the time as marketable adolescent culture.

What young people need is a sense of purpose, a place, a future- to belong to something bigger than themselves. And we’ve created a society where you aren’t born…

Let’s not pretend this is unique to hip hop nor that this is a new phenomenon. It goes way back. Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis both fucked teenage girls. And unless you’ve never heard of rock and roll and heavy metal, then you are certainly aware that there are decades worth of rock musicians fucking groupie girls and…

Well not sure how old you are, but it seems true that you get to an age where you look at certain trends and just can’t comprehend them. I remember older people saying that about sagging. I’ve always thought sagging is incredibly stupid- walking around with your ass hanging out of your pants and letting this choice…

I love them both (their music). In Bowie’s case, it seems he outgrew it. I try to see it in the perspective of the time- this was incredibly common. Most rock stars then were fucking teenage groupies, and some of the groupies themselves (including the young virgin that Bowie requested for and fucked) say that they…

Just seems weird that you jumped it to say that there is this age difference in a context that has nothing to do with your situation. Still, sharing anecdotes online is normal, so if that’s all you were doing, then carry on, mate!

There’s a universe of difference between 23 and 16. C’mon.

Again, depends on how young ten years younger is. There’s a huge difference between dating someone ten years younger than you if you’re 25 than if you’re 35.

Depends. Are they school-aged teenagers? Because yes, that’s creepy if so.

No, it’s not creepy to date someone half your age when you are 60 for example. It is definitely creepy to date someone half your age that when you are 30.

Yup, and his was worse- specifically asked for early teen virgin groupies, and got them. Vomit. Prince’s story is even weirder and grosser. Much more like Elvis with Pricilla. Found the teenage girl, groomed her in his mansion, married her when she came of age. Then in a twist, after their baby died shortly after…

It’s hard to bring up when it’s dudes you like. For example, Prince and David Bowie. They have more in common than being two brilliant musicians who died around the same time. Everyone knows about it. No one really wants to rake them over the coals because we want to pretend we get nice things.

Yes exactly. They are both attention-hungry extremely rich celebrities who say stupid shit because they like to see themselves on TV. They have far more in common than they don’t.

He’s just good at making a certain kind of music. That’s all. Why in the world people think that someone good at making a certain kind of music would necessarily have intelligent and/or coherent thoughts on any other topic is beyond me.

We’d all save ourselves a lot of grief if we’d learn that being smart at X doesn’t mean you aren’t also stupid at Y.

Thanks for sharing that, and I’m sorry that happened to you. I’m glad that your daughter felt more comfortable handling it the way she did and that she was able to protect other women with her actions.

I don’t think everyone does know it’s a complicated issue. Hence the stance that women should always report it and the confusion around why they don’t and the accusation that they are lying if they tell about something that happened in the past that they did not then report.

It’s the usually that saves that sentence. I’m not usually a racist but would still be super offensive, but it would at least make the statement true. If you took it out, even in an innocent situation like with raw fish, the statement is inoffensive but still inaccurate.