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Originally Posted by troutman
Yup - David Bowie, Jimmy Page. They raped children. No one wants to think about it.
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I try to tell myself it was a different era and that it was more acceptable at the time, but it keeps getting harder to listen to Bowie and Zeppelin. Then I start wondering if/how much worse that is than guys like John Lennon or Lindsey Graham beating their women, then I wonder how many other guys have skeletons in their closet like that that haven't seen the light of day. How many guys are really able to run the gauntlet of easy access to women, money and fame without coming out a complete piece of #### on the other end? How do you still respect women after going on a world wide tour where scores of women are fighting for the opportunity to degrade themselves in front of you? Daron Malakian (System of a Down) joked about how women were so eager to do whatever the band wanted that they eventually ran out of ideas and got bored with it, where do you go once you've become bored with a thing like that?
It's pretty much impossible to enjoy pop culture without being able to forgive the fact that a large portion of the people involved have done horrific things.