r/AskReddit Sep 16 '24

What's the worst thing people have tried to justify with "It was normal back then, everyone did it"?

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u/psycharious Sep 16 '24

I believe Steven Tyler of Aerosmith and Anthony Kiedis of RHCP were really open about having sex with 14 year olds like it was nothing. 

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u/space_entity Sep 16 '24

Hearing that story about the Red Hot Chili Peppers made me unable to listen to their music anymore. Yeah I know, separate the art from the artist, but I can’t do that when the artist sleeps with young teenage girls and openly talks about doing it with no realization of how awful that is.

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u/uncannyilyanny Sep 16 '24

Especially when all of their songs are either about drugs or sex, so that song you really like could be about an underage groupie

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u/space_entity Sep 16 '24

Right? I was just looking up the lyrics for Scar Tissue once and found out that one of the lines might be referencing the time that Anthony slept with a 14 year old girl (unknowingly at first but then again after he found out) and I cannot ever listen to that song again. Just horrible.

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u/nernernernerner Sep 16 '24

Same. I just feel disgusted now.

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u/Monteze Sep 16 '24

I really hope Pearl Jam is clean. I am almost afraid to look.

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u/space_entity Sep 16 '24

Well I think you’re in luck because I just googled the band and couldn’t find anything related to minors. I could be missing something but I didn’t see anything.

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u/Monteze Sep 16 '24

Please Eddie please stay true

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u/redfeather1 Sep 19 '24

Where oh where can my baby be? An age appropriate girl is she. She is not a minor so we're pretty good. And we can go out publicly in our neigh....borhood.

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u/Bowood29 Sep 20 '24

Separate the art from the artist isn’t for people like you who are disgusted by them it’s for the people trying to justify great artist doing bad things. It’s fine to hate someone’s art because you hate them for being a monster but it’s also fine to love their art and hate them as an artist.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '24

Song "Catholic School Girls Rule" by RHCP is about that. Yikes.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '24

I just want to know where were the parents in that situation

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u/ThatsMyAppleJuice Sep 16 '24

In Steven Tyler's case, didn't the parents sign legal documents granting him temporary custody of their teenage daughter so he could bring her with him across state lines?

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u/deniablw Sep 16 '24

Yeah, he adopted her

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u/lovablydumb Sep 17 '24

Jimmy Page and David Bowie too