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MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What was acceptable in the past is no longer acceptable. There are people that can’t accept that.
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MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What was acceptable in the past is no longer acceptable. There are people that can’t accept that.
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
In 1986 though? Pretty sure we had our cultural view on child gangbangs locked in by then.
kandoh@reddthat.com 2 hours ago
Let’s check out the lyrics of some popular rock songs from that time period…
Or what the age of consent was…
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 hour ago
By all means, check out the lyrics of some popular rock songs from the late 80s. I think you’ll find the pedophila vastly underrepresented.
Now, that’s not to say songwriters like Steven Tyler didn’t exist, but a large part of the lyricism you’re talking about is from around a decade or more earlier.
On the age of consent, I’ll give you this: they’re definitely weird in Georgia. Georgia’s age of consent was 14 until 1995.
However, the kids in the Losers Club were 11 in the first part of IT, which is still below even that threshold. With the exception of Georgia, the age of consent in America has been at least 16 since 1920. Plus, 23 states actually set their age of consent at 18 back then as well.
Maybe it was a little less weird in 1986 than it is now, but it was still far from the cultural norm. That’s all.
MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Unfortunately it isn’t even to this day. Just look at who is in the white house.
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Most of voters who support him are in genuine denial that he’s a pedophile. It’s ridiculous, but it doesn’t change the fact that they also hate pedophilia - they’re just being conned into thinking queer people are the pedos.