• MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    steven tyler proves that once you are good enough, you can do what you want. in a “who cares what they say, that’s steven fucking tyler” kind of way. it’s not necessarily entirely great, but as far as dressing how you want, hell yeah.

    i mean, he got away with bringing liv tyler (i’m sorry, liv fucking tyler, she’s amazing too) into this world. the whole story around that is scary as fuck. she’s great, but like, yikes.

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    23 hours ago

    Under no circumstance should you let Steven Tyler drive any of your teenage friends home

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    20 hours ago

    Don’t know Steven Tyler or what she did. but its not such a bad idea to give kids a save place to drink with some restrictions…

    they can and will drink one way or the other. just a question under what circumstances.

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      Steven Tyler is/was the lead singer for the band Aerosmith, which had its peak in the 90s. He was born as, and identifies as, male.

      Steven is typically a masculine name…thought Stevie may be a feminine variety, i.e. Stevie Nicks, the singer/songwriter of solo and Fleetwood Mac fame. Coincidentally, they were born exactly two months apart…Steven Tyler on March 26, 1948; and then Stevie Nicks on May 26, 1948.

      Also, Stevie Nicks was married to two different members of the band “The Eagles” (at separate times, of course)…Don Henley from 1977-1978, and Joe Walsh from 1983-1986.

      She was also married to two different Fleetwood Mac members…Lindsey Buckingham (1972-1976) and Mick Fleetwood (1977-1979).

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        “Stevie” is used as a diminutive form of the feminine name “Stephanie.” This is how Stevie Nicks uses it.

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        Funny enough two bands that i like listening to. not my favourite bands, but in many of my playlists is some Aerosmith and/or Eagles.

        Just never really cared about the people: i like the music - that’s all i need to know.

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        How was she married to two people at the same time? I’m too lazy to look it up. Don Henley from 1977-1978 and Mick Fleetwood from 1977-1979.

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      20 hours ago

      Incidentally kids are drinking less than they used to, at least in North America.

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        Adults, too.

        Especially in rec weed states. But with 1/8 of Americans currently taking a GLP-1 receptor agonist (i.e. Wegovy, Ozempic)…I would expect that to take a big toll, too.

        I am one of those 12%…I’ve lost 60lbs the past 3 months. I drink much less and when I do it’s not heavy IPAs and Sours…it’s Happy Dads (iced tea), Seltzers, or a glass of wine. Maybe a cocktail if I’m feeling fancy.

        One, a beer is just so damn filling. And my sense of taste no longer likes hoppy or sour. And it takes much less to get me drunk when I’m barely eating in the first place. And the medication itself can cause a bit of indigestion anyway so you kind of want to moderate more to begin with.

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      Boomers will complain about rap music being about sex and drugs while nodding along to a Ted Nugent song about getting and giving STDs.

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      I feel icky saying it but I think a lot has to do with the consenting nature of said 14 year olds. I don’t think riding the tour bus to the next state was really looked at like trafficking, and they weren’t coerced into attending the concert. It doesn’t make it right, but it feels different when a popular known sex icon rock star does it than a creepy, overweight real estate mogul and his super rich friends literally steals girls away from their lives with (sometimes) false promises of being a model.

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        I really think we need different words for these things. In my own experience, consenting to sexual contact with over 18’s as a teenager was a neutral-to-positive experience for me, while being assaulted by under 18’s was not hella fun. I don’t really like that they’re bundled together as the same thing.

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          It’s an interesting point. I was once a 14 year old girl. I would have consented to fucking a rock star for sure back then. It was more ok to be with older guys then and I didn’t really have bad experiences with who I gave consent to, either.

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        I don’t get the downvotes, I agree with you. It’s not okay, and yes, it’s legally rape, but it doesn’t have to be traumatizing the victims in the same way as the examples you also mentioned. And that’s not an excuse, but a reasonable answer to the question you responded to.

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          I didn’t disagree with that, just answering why I think it’s less scrutinized. The other commenter really had a meltdown.

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              It illegal for them to consent, but far from impossible

              Edit: and recognizing your username I’m actually a little chuffed that you dislike what I had to say, go fuck yourself mate.

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                It’s illegal to claim they consented because it’s impossible by the current societal understanding of what it means to consent for them to have consented. A 14 year old can understand what they want, which used to be good enough to be considered consent, but now that we know their brains aren’t finished developing yet, we don’t consider their ability to understand the repercussions of the decision to be on the same level as someone who’s fully an adult, and thus they are incapable of consent.

                It’s like how a 2 year old will want candy all the time, but you shouldn’t let them have it every time they want it because their brains aren’t developed enough for them to fully understand that it’s not good for them. You have to be capable of understanding the long-term implications of eating nothing but candy, and a 2 year old literally can’t do that. They might know it causes tooth decay and weight problems, but they don’t know exactly what that means because they lack the brain power to process the amount of background knowledge they would need to understand it.

                On the same note, a 14 year old might want to have sex, but they don’t understand all of the implications of it, even if they think they do. An 18 year old might not know the implications either, but we have to make a cutoff, and by 18 we assume enough people should be capable of consenting that we give the right to everybody. At 14, though, it’s likely that nobody that age can truly understand it enough to be considered capable of consent by the modern definition, and even if some can, the effort to parse it out just so some rock star can fuck the few that are capable of consenting is obviously not worth the effort.

                Just so we’re clear, I’m not saying that we need to somehow prevent 14 year olds from having sex with one another - while they still aren’t capable of understanding the implications of their actions, we can at least be reasonably certain that they both consent to the same lesser degree as one another. The issue is when one person has the higher mental capacity and the desire to take advantage of the lower capacity of their target to convince them to have sex, otherwise known as statutory rape, the topic of this discussion.

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                  If you’re too dense to understand my point I really can’t be bothered to continue with you. You’re also one of the most disgusting people I’ve encountered online so it’s funny to have you chastising me.

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        Hey there, you should feel icky, because that is one of the most disgusting takes I’ve ever seen. You are defending raping children. Take a very long look in the mirror and repeat that to yourself.

        If you have any kids, you need to surrender them IMMEDIATELY. You are not fit in any way to be a parent. Disgusting.

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    24 hours ago

    This picture is the intersection of the two groups of people you normally see wearing leopard print clothes.

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    You kids are gonna drink anyway, so do it here in the basement, where you’re safe. And stay out of mine, unnderstan’?

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    Give him a perm did he looks exactly the way my friend’s mom looked in the 90s 😭 And she did give us alcohol under 21, lmao. It worked because she gave us the nastiest, cheapest premixed mudslide possible and it repelled us from alcohol for a few more years.