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Topic subjectI meant We as in the ‘culture’
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13255690, I meant We as in the ‘culture’
Posted by BigReg, Thu May-03-18 02:42 PM
>who exactly is the "we" you are accusing?
>
>to your larger point, this boils down to a personal issue of
>whether you think what he's doing (preying on young girls) is
>an issue or not

I kept it vague because you’re always gonna have people like ‘i never fucked with kellz’ but his career barely paused even tho we all knew he was a child molester. Double albums with Jay-Z, successfully touring the nostalgia r&b circuit until the last few years.

>*here* there were women who thought it was cool because of
>their experiences as girls (as young as 12-13) chose were
>chased by, chased AFTER, and had relationships with grown men.
>they brought the whole "agency" perspective of "my body my
>choice" and the wholel "young boys were/are immature so i
>pursued what interested me"
>
>there are all kinda pathologies tied up in ALL of this
>

But thats my issue. Like i said in the OP I remember that discussion which seems insane in hindsight. Dude was clearly in his 30’s fucking 14 year olds...its not a case of a college kid dating a high schooler

>i don't think this (kelly) fits into "me too", unless its
>morphed, because i thought that was about workplace power
>abuse while kelly is more about pied-pipering

Reason I mentioned #metoo is that he’s trending under the banner after the latest allegation

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/01/arts/music/r-kelly-timesup-metoo-muterkelly.html