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In a now deleted tweet, weirdo Azealia Banks shares that "fucking 14 year old girls was really only made a social taboo in the 1990s"
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this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2025
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The fact that the song is titled 'Jailbait' should tell you something about the ethics of that.
Think the point is that at least for rock music scene, it was considered perfectly normal for underage groupies to get with rock stars.
Yeah it was illegal but so were drugs, and we know how famously sober the rock celebrities were of the age....
I think there was taboo unless everyone agreed the older man was "hot". If they got with underage people because they were old creepy ugly dudes that couldn't get with anyone any other way, absolutely taboo.
But if everyone thought they had a choice but happened to also include young women that seemed openly "partying" then people did likely shrug.
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Are you one of those people who thinks legality and ethics are the same thing?
Come on now
Laws are written by people, in part, to enshrine ethics.
No, not all laws are about ethics, or even about what is just and right. But that's the basis of the system.
It's unethical to commit statutory rape, and people have agreed with this sentiment enough to make it very illegal, to the point that you risk jail time for committing it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_age_in_the_United_States
Here's another tidbit:
So....
It continued I to the 90s like Azeala said, and I agreed...
Right?
Like, you're saying legality and ethics goes hand in hand, and this shows that it was legal in some places, so following your logic, it was also ethical in those places until the laws change
Because if not I legitimately don't even understand what point you're trying to make.
Okay, now you're getting into semantics. I will remind you that the song is titled Jailbait, which means statutory rape. And if you look at the lyrics, the song is written pretty clearly from the point of view of a sleazeball.