This is Chris Cuomo, anchor of CNN's "New Day": This is the look Cuomo gives when Joel Pollak, the Breitbart editor dispatched to defend Roy Moore, goes totally off the rails: And this is Cuomo hearing that denouncing pedophiles means you OBVIOUSLY hate The Beatles. OBVIOUSLY:
Let's not forget that the whole concept of 'childhood' as we know it is pretty much a Victorian invention. Perhaps because lifespans were much shorter, and/or death in childbirth so much more common. If your motivating factor is finding the best breeding stock available to partner with, sixteen (aka, reliably 'grass on the field') was entirely a reasonable marriageable age - after all, what else were they going to do with those aging heifers, educate them? (and now I'm speculating on how much marriage age may have contributed to the notion of women as 'childlike' - but never mind all that).
As with so many of the social issues facing us today, humanity is struggling to evolve. Right, and you thought we were done with that once we learned how to walk upright, didn't you? But so many of these concepts - children having time to develop into adults, women being free to decide the course of their own lives, marriage being a contract with the person you love regardless of plumbing - would have been perfectly alien to our great-grandparents. And yet we are finding that embracing them has not brought society crashing down around our ears - if anything, it's the reactions *against* evolving that makes our society so scary right now.
I can just picture the scene at GOP headquarters...
Spokestwit Wrangler: OK, we need someone to cravenly justify voting for Moore on Cuomo's show... who's up?
Joel Pollak: Ooooh pick me! Pick me!! I've got the best idea - an unanswerable score!! That Cuomo hippie won't be able to refute it! It'll be the biggest burn!!!
One of the things that disturbs me about all of this is the message it sends to young people. Sexual assault is okay? This is especially toxic for young women. The message is, YOU don't matter at all, as long as some man/men want or need something. And shame one the troll from Breitbart for the making this about the typical RWNJ b.s about false accusations and pity the poor boys, cause we evil women are all out get them. What a POS!
Yeah, that's the thing. Pop songs, especially back then, were written to sell to teenagers. The perspective of the lyrics isn't the author, it's the audience.
"You're sweet, but you're just four feet And you've still got your baby teeth You're too young, and I'm too well hung But tonight we're gonna rock it..."
- of course Spinal Tap were PARODYING Skeevy Pedo Rock. Weren't they?
i was 13 when the Beatles invaded and all the teeny boppers went wild when they sang "i want to hold your hand" - didn't much matter what the lyrics were - they were the new Elvis and the girls were in crazy love -
Logic fail #1...A song about 16-year old girls, sung by a man in his 30's. A (different) man in his 30's cruising CUSTODY HEARINGS to pick up a 14-year old girl, who he then sexually assaults. Mr. Pollak appears not to have heard of false equivalence.
Logic fail #2. Mr. Pollak claims women lie about sexual assault. Mr. Pollak points out Bill Clinton has been accused of sexual assault. So..women lie about sexual assault UNLESS they're accusing Bill Clinton? I don't even know what the name of that logic fail is, when your own argument is internally inconsistent.
Let's not forget that the whole concept of 'childhood' as we know it is pretty much a Victorian invention. Perhaps because lifespans were much shorter, and/or death in childbirth so much more common. If your motivating factor is finding the best breeding stock available to partner with, sixteen (aka, reliably 'grass on the field') was entirely a reasonable marriageable age - after all, what else were they going to do with those aging heifers, educate them? (and now I'm speculating on how much marriage age may have contributed to the notion of women as 'childlike' - but never mind all that).
As with so many of the social issues facing us today, humanity is struggling to evolve. Right, and you thought we were done with that once we learned how to walk upright, didn't you? But so many of these concepts - children having time to develop into adults, women being free to decide the course of their own lives, marriage being a contract with the person you love regardless of plumbing - would have been perfectly alien to our great-grandparents. And yet we are finding that embracing them has not brought society crashing down around our ears - if anything, it's the reactions *against* evolving that makes our society so scary right now.
I could go on, but lunch break is over..
I don't know... did George wear ribbons in his curls?
I can just picture the scene at GOP headquarters...
Spokestwit Wrangler: OK, we need someone to cravenly justify voting for Moore on Cuomo's show... who's up?
Joel Pollak: Ooooh pick me! Pick me!! I've got the best idea - an unanswerable score!! That Cuomo hippie won't be able to refute it! It'll be the biggest burn!!!
Spokestwit Wrangler: OK, Joel... you're booked!!
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Nope. Octopus's Garden was all Ringo, with an uncredited assist from George, who helped flesh it out with a chord or two.
Rick James had a hit in about 1983 called "17".
"She was only 17, 17, but she was sexy!She was only 17, 17, she said she loved me."
And the Stray Cats around that same time had "She's Sexy and 17".
Some people see only leverage in any moral principle. Actual moral commitment is beyond them.
Those people have exactly what Breitbart wants in an employee.
Apparently, it's really difficult.
Witness the man now pretending to be President.
One of the things that disturbs me about all of this is the message it sends to young people. Sexual assault is okay? This is especially toxic for young women. The message is, YOU don't matter at all, as long as some man/men want or need something. And shame one the troll from Breitbart for the making this about the typical RWNJ b.s about false accusations and pity the poor boys, cause we evil women are all out get them. What a POS!
Yeah, that's the thing. Pop songs, especially back then, were written to sell to teenagers. The perspective of the lyrics isn't the author, it's the audience.
“🎶I-I-I love little girls, they make me feel so good...🎵”
“Little Girls”, from the “Only A Lad” album
"You're sweet, but you're just four feet And you've still got your baby teeth You're too young, and I'm too well hung But tonight we're gonna rock it..."
- of course Spinal Tap were PARODYING Skeevy Pedo Rock. Weren't they?
i was 13 when the Beatles invaded and all the teeny boppers went wild when they sang "i want to hold your hand" - didn't much matter what the lyrics were - they were the new Elvis and the girls were in crazy love -
Logic fail #1...A song about 16-year old girls, sung by a man in his 30's. A (different) man in his 30's cruising CUSTODY HEARINGS to pick up a 14-year old girl, who he then sexually assaults. Mr. Pollak appears not to have heard of false equivalence.
Logic fail #2. Mr. Pollak claims women lie about sexual assault. Mr. Pollak points out Bill Clinton has been accused of sexual assault. So..women lie about sexual assault UNLESS they're accusing Bill Clinton? I don't even know what the name of that logic fail is, when your own argument is internally inconsistent.
It may very well have been. It was released 19 years before I was born, so I don't know much about the context and all...
I think there are a couple Ted Nugent songs but to list them would break my forty-five year commitment to not looking up Ted Nugent songs.
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