Locking this post because there is a lot weird shit and reports coming from it.
This you post
Didn’t she accuse someone of SA when she was underage? Yes, when she was 17, so her comment about girls even younger is insane.
But that gets to the heart of Azealia Banks. She’s insane. She’s part of the lgbtq+ community and her sibling is trans, but she supports JK Rawlings and belittles trans women and has likened the lgbtq community to the KKK.
She believes that African Americans should be paid reparations for the crime of slavery, which zero republicans would ever grant.
She flip flopped her endorsement of Trump in 2016. Despite saying women’s issues were too important to vote for him, she celebrated his win. She then did the same basic thing in 2025, but for who knows what reasons.
She’s pro Russia as hell as well as a Zionist.
I’m not sure how we get it to happen, but she needs to put up her brain for scientific studies. The neurons are firing in ways rarely seen in humans.
https://www.reddit.com/r/agedlikemilk/comments/1macphs/comment/n5dqgn6/
Her ability to find the most wrong take possible on just about everything is genuinely unearthly. You could generally set a pretty reliable moral compass for yourself by just adopting the exact opposite of her beliefs.
it’s pretty easy. just change the question to “what will enrage the most people and thus get me the most engagement in order to remain relevant?”
then all her takes make sense.
Even if you bent over backwards to agree with this tweet, just look at the facts of the Epstein case. These girls were sex trafficked. Epstein and Maxwell sought out vulnerable girls and took advantage of them. They were not girls in a traditional mindset trying to find a husband and have kids.
Exactly. Trafficked and trapped. For whatever reason the originator of the tweet chose to do what she did it’s not the same as being carted off to an island full of pedos with no safe place to escape to.
Which the poster definitely knows.
When you try to suggest that something is normal based upon your own experience, but everyone just looks at you with concern and pity in their eyes.
Exactly. It’s a trauma response. Sweeping it under the rug. My parents beat me when I was a child and I turned out fine.
WTF? No, Ms. Banks, I was a teen in the 80s and no, my friends were not doing 40 year olds, eeeew. That was still called Statutory Rape. Girl, you are 34, do you find 14 year old boys attractive? I thought not. Those are children.
She’s right about one thing. This shit was prolific back in the sixties, seventies and eighties. Operation Yewtree blew the lid on just how rife paedophilia was amongst celebrities and how the (British) establishment had been covering it up for decades.
The Epstein files should have been a similar watershed moment for the US, but unfortunately some very powerful people are on that list.
Exactly. I didn’t even hear the word “paedophile” until 2000 when Sarah Payne was murdered.
In school in the 90s there were always 13 and 14 year old girls with older boyfriends, like we’re talking 19 or 20 with cars and they could buy them cigarettes and booze.
We never really thought much of it.
They had very much made this shit normal, and I’m glad we now don’t.
Until a few years ago, the age of consent in my country was 14. There weren’t just 13 and 14 year olds with 19 or 20 year old boyfriends, even 14 and 25-27 was a pretty common combo. Guy I went to middle school with was such an immature dumbass, he HAD to work 14 year olds to get laid at 19. Because a 15 year old would see through him already. Think he’s changed now, but of course he had to father a child with a 15 year old first.
But this isn’t the 80s or 90s. No, I grew up in the '00s and '10s. This is my experience with my peers in late 00s and even early 10s.
I don’t know any teenagers anymore, but there’s a podcast about sex and standup comedy (they wanna talk about standup comedy since they’re both comedians, but since they named it “pussy eaters”, they only get emails about sex) and holy hell, one girl out of every 4 seems hell-bent on talking about how they lost their virginity as a teenager to an older guy. Another girl out of every four is talking about how she either got raped or almost got raped (as an adult usually, not that it makes things much better). They just stopped reading emails from their listeners.
Which schools did you go to? I never heard of this. Maybe im a little younger and that’s it. Maybe it’s an England/USA thing. I was 16 in 2000.
Also the shift of the acceptable age range of a romeo/Juliette situation is a little different from a bunch of 40+ yo rich guys shipping some tweens to a remote island for any reason.
I remember in school in the 2000s 13 and 14 year old with 19 or 20 year old boyfriends. I bet many still do today but I don’t hang out with 13 or 14 year olds at my age to know of the few that do.
Pedophiles are attracted to children before they hit puberty. If you try to fuck fourteen year olds you are a weird fucking creep (and probably a republican). But you are not a pedophile. You’re watering down the word.
Edit: Why the hate?!
“Well, ACKCHYUALLY they’re ephebophiles.”
They’re children. Shut the fuck up.
I hope you choke to death on a child’s toy, you fucking creep.
Haha, great find! I’ll use this next time, save me some heat.
I’m starting to get a vibe of: “I didn’t understand consent when I was that age and had sex and no one did anything, why should we now?”
By even debating this idea of ‘at what age is having sex with children OK’, you fall into the trap. We already have laws defining age of consent for a reason.
The trap is to distract you from trump’s sex crimes. They need to normalize statutory rape as acceptable, because more and more stuff is going to be coming out about his doing that. His base is horrified by pedophilia, but not by misogyny.
This is how they prep the base to be just fine with crimes trump did (in this case rape) when more info comes out. Keep their thinking in black-and-white: ‘pedophilia is evil, but trump didn’t do that, so he’s not evil! He’s still our Daddy.’ So they’ll ignore his rapes of under-age girls just like they already ignore his rapes of adult women. So by saying,
“Sure, why wouldn’t anyone be attracted to a girl whose body is developed even if she’s ‘technically’ under age – it’s not like it’s pedophilia or anything, which would be wrong!”. As long as they’re 13+ it’s fine!"
they are saying statutory rape is OK as long as the girl is at least 13. No, that’s just how the new Christian Nationalist theocracy wants it to be. The crap about “it was acceptable back in his day, only taboo since the '90’s” is of course bullshit. I’m surprised they didn’t claim it was only made taboo by the ‘woke left’.
We already have laws defining age of consent for a reason.
And it probably me moved upward anyway.
A lot of time people comment on their own life as a youth, not really understanding the fucked up parts were in fact, fucked up.
I didn’t know that the insane shit my parents put me through wasn’t normal life for everybody else. Took me well into my 20’s to figure it out and even though I’m 50, I am still re-discovering memories that remind me just how fucked-up my life was back then. Re-connecting with my sister after 2 decades of estrangement due to family dysfunction and addiction, new realizations are still unfolding for me.
I think you’ve hit the nail in the head, she’s self-reporting what her life was like as a teenager but it hasn’t yet clicked just how fucked up it all was
When you tell a story from your childhood you think will get a huge laugh, only to be met with a room full of horrified and concerned faces.
Been there, it gets way better. And kudos for reconneing with sane family!
Cheers
Growing up in a state where the legal age was 18, we heard “16’ll get you 20” back in the 70s and 80s.
So no idea where this nonsense about the 90s started.
In California, the age of consent was 18 by 1920. In the 1960s and 1970s when I became sexually active, almost nobody I knew was 18 or over at the time of their first sexual experience. It was a widely-ignored law, selectively enforced. When I was under 18, most of my partners were of similar age (and on the Pill).
In the 1880s, the age of consent in California was 10. That was typical for most states in that era. The increase to 18 was driven by the same odd alliance of progressive eugenicists and Christian reactionaries who brought us Prohibition.
The widespread belief in the US that two 17-year-olds having a screw should be subject to prosecution seems insanely punitive and contrary to human nature.
It’s 16 in the UK, which in my view makes better sense. All of the EU countries set the age of consent somewhere in the 14-16 range.
When I was under 18, most of my partners were of similar age (and on the Pill).
Lots of places have romeo and juliet clauses for this. I.e when it’s two 16 year olds, it’s fine. If it’s 16 and 25, it’s not.
It’s 16 in the UK, which in my view makes better sense. All of the EU countries set the age of consent somewhere in the 14-16 range.
16 is bordering fine, but anything below that is too low IMO. Again, the so called romeo and juliet laws are important here. It means that even if the age of consent is 18, teenagers can still do it among themselves and if you’re 15 and your 17 year old partner suddenly turns 18, that usually isn’t a big deal either. Let’s protect teenagers from grown ass adults, but let them sleep with each other because that’s going to happen anyway, teenagers are crazy filled with hormones - so they should be able to get contraceptives and stuff without any worry of legal repercussions if anyone finds out.
The startling part for me, having grown up in an 18 state, is that the majority of US states are 16.
When I heard that for the first time I was like “Oh, that can’t be right…”
Yup. 30 states = 16, 8 states = 17, 12 states = 18.
Azealia Amanda Banks was born on May 31, 1991, in New York City’s Manhattan borough; she was the youngest of three.[5][6] Her single mother raised her and her two siblings in Harlem, after their father died of pancreatic cancer when she was two years old.[7] Following her father’s death, Banks says that her mother “became really abusive—physically and verbally. Like she would hit me and my sisters with baseball bats, bang our heads up against walls, and she would always tell me I was ugly. I remember once she threw out all the food in the fridge, just so we wouldn’t have anything to eat.” Due to escalating violence, Banks moved out of her mother’s home at age 14 to live with her older sister.[8]
At a young age, Banks became interested in musical theater, dancing, acting, and singing. At 16, she starred in a production of the comedy-noir musical City of Angels, where she was found by an agent who sent her to auditions for TBS, Nickelodeon, and Law & Order, all without success.[9] At this point Banks decided to end her pursuit of an acting career, citing the stiff competition and overall sense of nonfulfillment.[10] Because of this lack of fulfillment, she began writing rap and R&B songs as a creative outlet. She never finished high school, instead choosing to embark on a career as a recording artist.[5]
Ok, so she got her start fucking her way into roles and doesn’t want to admit that it was wrong. This is where a lot of those Epstein Island kids end up. That’s why you don’t hear as many testimonials as you think you should. They got gaslighted into thinking it was normal.
If she was having sex with people to get roles at 15 or 16, that makes her a victim with a vulnerable background exploited by people with power and opportunities.
You’re acting like a teenager with no real world experience made a plan to climb the career ladder using sex is more likely than a child without stable future job prospects was groomed by pedophile entertainment industry producers, exploited, and happened to be one of the lucky ones that had a career at the end of it.
She absolutely was a victim when she was a child, but now she’s an adult advocating for continuing the cycle of abuse.
“she started fucking her way into roles” doesn’t sound like you’re talking about a child. This framing comes across as she was intentional an conniving instead of a victim.
You’re free to interpret it that way. I’m stating it that way because that’s what I would tell her to her face after sticking up for Donald Trump. If she wants to believe she had agency at that age, I’ll call her out as if she did.
If there isn’t actual evidence that someone used sexual favors to get where they are, that’s honestly a pretty sexist assumption to make about a person, since it’s an assumption only ever made of those who were AFABEdit: I’m too tired. She admitted it in the OOP
Don’t feel bad, I’m bad about skimming without really realizing I’m doing it and that was like the one sentence I auto piloted over first time reading it. I was like “yeah that’s a weird thing to say but, that’s a stretch to say this means that.” Then I reread and was like “oh. Oh my.”
My great-grandmother, who was born in 1910, may have gotten married at 13 (iirc her husband was 17-18 at the time) and had my grandmother when she was 14… but that’s doesn’t make it “right” that she was a teen mother. She married young to get out of an abusive home life and that was her only way out at the time.
Simply because it was the norm it doesn’t mean it’s right. Pederasty was definitely a thing, but a Jewish historian who lived in the Roman era said the children clearly do not like it. And grim as it will sound, there are plenty of children in South East Asia abused by Western sexpats. You can definitely see how distraught the children are while the pedophile walks proudly with his chest high.
a Jewish historian who lived in the Roman era said the children clearly do not like it.
Do you happen to have the actual quote or a link to the whole thing? Id quite like to read this
I could not find it but i read it in Reddit AskHistorians many years ago. I am afraid to search further as I could get flagged 😂 Fwiw, if I remember correctly, I think the name of the Jewish historian is Josephus. But the only reference from the Internet I could find about him and his comment on pederasty/pedophilia is from here https://voice.dts.edu/review/philo-josephus-and-the-testaments-on-sexuality-attitudes-towards-sexuality-in-the-writings-of-philo-and-josephus-and-in-the-testaments-of-the-twelve-patriarchs/
Thanks!
Wow, and here I thought I liked her music. Not anymore, jesus christ what a creep.
Worst part is, I largely feel bad for her. This is the cycle of abuse at work. This woman needs help she’ll probably never accept.
It sounds like she thinks it’s ok because she was abused the same way. Perhaps she deleted it because she learned it was abuse? Just wild speculation
Yeah that tweet reads as someone who genuinely doesn’t understand that her experiences were abuse and not common.
We can only hope ❤️
we be looking very heavy metal and reflective
