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[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Locking this post because there is a lot weird shit and reports coming from it.

[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 56 points 5 days ago (6 children)

She's right about one thing. This shit was prolific back in the sixties, seventies and eighties. Operation Yewtree blew the lid on just how rife paedophilia was amongst celebrities and how the (British) establishment had been covering it up for decades.

The Epstein files should have been a similar watershed moment for the US, but unfortunately some very powerful people are on that list.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 18 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Exactly. I didn't even hear the word "paedophile" until 2000 when Sarah Payne was murdered.

In school in the 90s there were always 13 and 14 year old girls with older boyfriends, like we're talking 19 or 20 with cars and they could buy them cigarettes and booze.

We never really thought much of it.

They had very much made this shit normal, and I'm glad we now don't.

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 79 points 5 days ago (2 children)

When you try to suggest that something is normal based upon your own experience, but everyone just looks at you with concern and pity in their eyes.

[–] meliaesc@lemmy.world 22 points 5 days ago

Like, yes girl, I was absolutely raped at 14 too, and we both need therapy!

[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago

Exactly. It’s a trauma response. Sweeping it under the rug. My parents beat me when I was a child and I turned out fine.

[–] bytesonbike@discuss.online 188 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 82 points 5 days ago (11 children)

Reminds me of shit saying I heard when I was 14. "Old enough to bleed, old enough to breed". Even then that was a fucked up thing to say. But I heard it a lot as a teenager. Mostly from other teen boys who didn't know shit about sex.

[–] LilB0kChoy@piefed.social 63 points 5 days ago (16 children)

There’s also “if there’s grass on the field, play ball”

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[–] morphballganon@lemmy.world 31 points 4 days ago

It's not that social norms have changed. What happens is individual people don't realize how fucked up predators are until they get older. If you observe something as a teen and are told it's "creepy" and "gross," that's all you think it is. But then you get older and realize that it's actually much more sinister than that. There's manipulation, there are systemic injustices that enable it, there are people who don't know how to spot abused kids or feel like they can't upset the apple cart without throwing their own lives away.

It's like saying nobody understood algebra until YOU took an algebra class.

[–] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 27 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I was just talking to my wife about how MAGA will find some way to justify trump being a pedophile. They already try to justify rape.... and then i read this.

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

So she thinks being a 15 yr old horning on 40 yr olds because of daddy issues is the same as 60+ yr olds raping kids being ‘given to them’ by another 40 yr old stranded out on an island?

The fuck ? this person needs to be held in a padded room away from children please. And please slap the drugs out of her dumb face. She’s fucking cooked enough.

[–] sudo@programming.dev 25 points 4 days ago

Reminder: Azealia Banks was born in 1991

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 43 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Growing up in a state where the legal age was 18, we heard "16'll get you 20" back in the 70s and 80s.

So no idea where this nonsense about the 90s started.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago

Prolly she grew up in the 90's, fucking older men, and only later has had people go "oh that doesn't sound healthy" and presumes that there just was no judgement at all from anyone when she was actually doing it, just because she didn't witness any personally.

Presumably.

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[–] Cocopanda@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Real wild for these mental ill people to tell you about the rape they normalized in their everyday life.

[–] Stabbitha@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

I just want everyone to be aware that healthy, well-adjusted teenage girls do not make a habit of seducing 40yo men. This woman was molested as a child, uses promiscuity as an attempt to "regain control", creates justifications rather than addressing her trauma, and projects her twisted attitudes toward sex onto the rest of society.

[–] bytesonbike@discuss.online 94 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Didn’t she accuse someone of SA when she was underage? Yes, when she was 17, so her comment about girls even younger is insane.

But that gets to the heart of Azealia Banks. She’s insane. She’s part of the lgbtq+ community and her sibling is trans, but she supports JK Rawlings and belittles trans women and has likened the lgbtq community to the KKK.

She believes that African Americans should be paid reparations for the crime of slavery, which zero republicans would ever grant.

She flip flopped her endorsement of Trump in 2016. Despite saying women’s issues were too important to vote for him, she celebrated his win. She then did the same basic thing in 2025, but for who knows what reasons.

She’s pro Russia as hell as well as a Zionist.

I’m not sure how we get it to happen, but she needs to put up her brain for scientific studies. The neurons are firing in ways rarely seen in humans.

https://www.reddit.com/r/agedlikemilk/comments/1macphs/comment/n5dqgn6/

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 53 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Her ability to find the most wrong take possible on just about everything is genuinely unearthly. You could generally set a pretty reliable moral compass for yourself by just adopting the exact opposite of her beliefs.

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[–] CannedYeet@lemmy.world 82 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Even if you bent over backwards to agree with this tweet, just look at the facts of the Epstein case. These girls were sex trafficked. Epstein and Maxwell sought out vulnerable girls and took advantage of them. They were not girls in a traditional mindset trying to find a husband and have kids.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 38 points 5 days ago

Exactly. Trafficked and trapped. For whatever reason the originator of the tweet chose to do what she did it’s not the same as being carted off to an island full of pedos with no safe place to escape to.

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[–] eierkuchen@sh.itjust.works 20 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What the actual F. Are these people real?

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 11 points 4 days ago (8 children)

Yes. People talk about how hard fascism is to define but I'd argue it can always be identified by the bootlicking subservience of intellect and ethical reasoning to the whims of Dear Leader.

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 4 days ago

What about when it's your 13yo daughter getting railed by a 40yo man? Let's see how you feel about that.

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 66 points 5 days ago (1 children)

WTF? No, Ms. Banks, I was a teen in the 80s and no, my friends were not doing 40 year olds, eeeew. That was still called Statutory Rape. Girl, you are 34, do you find 14 year old boys attractive? I thought not. Those are children.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 5 days ago

Don't be too sure. She started out "in Trump's defense", FFS.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 40 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

Simply because it was the norm it doesn't mean it's right. Pederasty was definitely a thing, but a Jewish historian who lived in the Roman era said the children clearly do not like it. And grim as it will sound, there are plenty of children in South East Asia abused by Western sexpats. You can definitely see how distraught the children are while the pedophile walks proudly with his chest high.

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[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 45 points 5 days ago (7 children)

From wiki

Azealia Amanda Banks was born on May 31, 1991, in New York City's Manhattan borough; she was the youngest of three.[5][6] Her single mother raised her and her two siblings in Harlem, after their father died of pancreatic cancer when she was two years old.[7] Following her father's death, Banks says that her mother "became really abusive—physically and verbally. Like she would hit me and my sisters with baseball bats, bang our heads up against walls, and she would always tell me I was ugly. I remember once she threw out all the food in the fridge, just so we wouldn't have anything to eat." Due to escalating violence, Banks moved out of her mother's home at age 14 to live with her older sister.[8]

At a young age, Banks became interested in musical theater, dancing, acting, and singing. At 16, she starred in a production of the comedy-noir musical City of Angels, where she was found by an agent who sent her to auditions for TBS, Nickelodeon, and Law & Order, all without success.[9] At this point Banks decided to end her pursuit of an acting career, citing the stiff competition and overall sense of nonfulfillment.[10] Because of this lack of fulfillment, she began writing rap and R&B songs as a creative outlet. She never finished high school, instead choosing to embark on a career as a recording artist.[5]

Ok, so she got her start fucking her way into roles and doesn't want to admit that it was wrong. This is where a lot of those Epstein Island kids end up. That's why you don't hear as many testimonials as you think you should. They got gaslighted into thinking it was normal.

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[–] Zink@programming.dev 9 points 4 days ago

Ah yes, the “things were worse in the past and we’re still here, so it should be worse now too” argument.

It’s a conservative favorite to justify fucking kids, fucking over minorities and women, and generally seeking to ruin the people you were told to hate.

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 44 points 5 days ago (3 children)

A lot of time people comment on their own life as a youth, not really understanding the fucked up parts were in fact, fucked up.

I didn't know that the insane shit my parents put me through wasn't normal life for everybody else. Took me well into my 20's to figure it out and even though I'm 50, I am still re-discovering memories that remind me just how fucked-up my life was back then. Re-connecting with my sister after 2 decades of estrangement due to family dysfunction and addiction, new realizations are still unfolding for me.

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[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It is one thing for a perverted man to say this, but for a woman to say this so she can get some fake maga points is just disgusting.

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[–] simsalabim@lemmy.world 29 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (6 children)

I'm wondering if her grandmother, who had her first child when she was 12, was happy about it. Never hoped for change. Was not embracing social change when it happend. Like people don't regret some of their choices when they were teens.

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[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Wow, what a fucking loser creep. Stay away from all children please.

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[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The right is foaming at the mouthh with hate. They are so deadest on hating groups that they're defending pedophilia (something that harms children) because they want to protect children.

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 19 points 4 days ago

They don't want to protect anyone. They want to own their children.

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 44 points 5 days ago

I'm starting to get a vibe of: "I didn't understand consent when I was that age and had sex and no one did anything, why should we now?"

[–] 13igTyme@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

A girl having a child at 12 is different when the dad is say... anywhere from 12-15 vs when the dad is 40.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 51 points 5 days ago (3 children)

No idea who this is, but they have a lot to unpack in therapy. 15 year olds don't seduce adults...

I hate to tell you, but you and your grandmother's trauma are valid, and not at all okay. The fact that they are trying to rationalize it tells me they know on some level that what happened wasn't okay. Its a defense mechanism.

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[–] SuzyQ@sh.itjust.works 38 points 5 days ago

My great-grandmother, who was born in 1910, may have gotten married at 13 (iirc her husband was 17-18 at the time) and had my grandmother when she was 14... but that's doesn't make it "right" that she was a teen mother. She married young to get out of an abusive home life and that was her only way out at the time.

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 43 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

By even debating this idea of 'at what age is having sex with children OK', you fall into the trap. We already have laws defining age of consent for a reason.

The trap is to distract you from trump's sex crimes. They need to normalize statutory rape as acceptable, because more and more stuff is going to be coming out about his doing that. His base is horrified by pedophilia, but not by misogyny.

This is how they prep the base to be just fine with crimes trump did (in this case rape) when more info comes out. Keep their thinking in black-and-white: 'pedophilia is evil, but trump didn't do that, so he's not evil! He's still our Daddy.' So they'll ignore his rapes of under-age girls just like they already ignore his rapes of adult women. So by saying,

"Sure, why wouldn't anyone be attracted to a girl whose body is developed even if she's 'technically' under age -- it's not like it's pedophilia or anything, which would be wrong!". As long as they're 13+ it's fine!"

they are saying statutory rape is OK as long as the girl is at least 13. No, that's just how the new Christian Nationalist theocracy wants it to be. The crap about "it was acceptable back in his day, only taboo since the '90's" is of course bullshit. I'm surprised they didn't claim it was only made taboo by the 'woke left'.

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[–] tgirlschierke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Wasn't he doing this in the 90s?

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[–] Star@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Wow, and here I thought I liked her music. Not anymore, jesus christ what a creep.

Worst part is, I largely feel bad for her. This is the cycle of abuse at work. This woman needs help she'll probably never accept.

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[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 34 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I'm not sure who this is but the only thing I know about her right now is that she's okay with pedophiles.

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 35 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

For anyone that doesn't know about her, yeah, she's crazy. But she's not really "political"

But what she's saying about it not being a big deal before the 90s...

Yeah, that's unfortunately true, and in lots of communities a 14 year old being pregnant just ain't that notable.

We have a 38 year old grandma in politics that will never shut up. She married and had kids with a guy she met who flashed her at a bowling alley while underage, and lied to the cops for him when others reported a drunk guy was wiping his dick out in front of a bunch of kids in a bowling alley.

Now her teenage son is being charged with child abuse too:

https://nypost.com/2025/07/27/us-news/rep-lauren-boeberts-troubled-eldest-son-tyler-charged-with-child-abuse-report/

Where Azealia is wrong, is saying because it used to be normal, means it's ethically ok now.

Which again, is pretty much exactly on brand for Azealis banks. She always stops a step or two too early with her logic.

But lots of people just look at if something used to be accepted to decide if it should be accepted today.

[–] BremboTheFourth@piefed.ca 33 points 5 days ago (17 children)

Being underage and pregnant might not be notable in some communities--if the father is also underage. The father being 30+ has absolutely been taboo for at least a century.

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[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 21 points 5 days ago
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