FEMINIST: “David Bowie is a pedophile and statutory rapist!”
If you think David Bowie is either of those because he allegedly slept with 14 year-old Lori Mattix, you don’t know a fucking thing about 70s groupie culture.
Go read some of the very first issues of Star Magazine, particularly the June 1973 issue (pages 59–61) , and you’ll come to understand that they purposely made themselves look older, had fake identification cards, and stopped at nothing to get with musicians. Didn’t anyone watch Almost Famous? It’s all about making connections and boosting their egos just to “call up your girlfriends the next day and say who I was with last night.”
In the March 1973 issue (pages 62–63) they have an entire section about how to get with and manipulate older men. I shit you not.
Young girls basically would take this quiz and depending on their score, it would tell them if they were mature enough for an older guy.
Of course, because of the controversial subject matter and because groupies were telling more than they probably should have in the fifth and final issue, it ceased publication and now exists as a relic of another time.
Now, can we really blame musicians for (allegedly) sleeping with girls that were between 13 and 16 years old who purposely sought out these men, dressed older, lied to them, manipulated them, and did things they knew were wrong? These weren’t innocent little girls. This wasn’t your fourteen year old sister who still plays with Barbies. These were smart, pretty, conniving young girls.
Consider the fact that a vast majority of musicians during that time were intoxicated almost all the time, drinking and doing all kinds of drugs. Do you actually expect them to ask for proof of age if the groupie is already in a bar or venue that is supposed to card at the door? Do you expect them to ask for an ID when the girl is smoking, drinking, and acting like an older woman?
Jamie Lee Curtis was born in November 1958. This is her 1st fake ID
Do you think David Bowie or anyone not trained to recognize fake IDs is going to be able to look at this and tell if its fake or not? No, it’s an absurd fucking expectation, especially when you think about the environment they’re in.
Everything tells me that David Bowie didn’t know and according to Lori Mattix herself, she doesn’t feel like she was assaulted and even considered him to be an old friend for whom she mourned on her Facebook.
Now can you idiots please shut the fuck up about David Bowie being a horrible pile of shit? Because you clearly don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about.
Follow up: In the 1987 rape accusation case against Bowie, he was cleared of all charges. So you can all shut the fuck up about that, too.
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