Interesting. She had strict, conservative parents as a teenager, yet she was in foster care during her teenage years. She had no close relationships yet she shared an unbreakable bond with her sister. Looks like she writes whatever will sell, with her starring as the perpetual victim.
I'm interested in what the folks here think of this article. Certainly the first time she got molested, she clearly didn't know what she was getting herself into. But she says she still has a photo album full of rock stars she partied with and backstage passes she obtained. It was not news back then that rock stars liked them young, and she knew after the first encounter what the price of backstage admission was. Do you think that her psyche today might benefit from taking a modicum of responsibility for putting herself in those situations?
I think she describes a situation a lot of young girls got themselves into decades ago when they wanted to meet the band. Some of them were willing, others escaped, and others describe unexpected horrific circumstances, such as with Led Zeppelin. She's developed a story of her supposed experience that's a form of click bait, IMO, where she knows what readers are likely to want to read. That said, I don't want to victim-blame. Some rock bands were often known for their abuses of young women, which was never OK. Some of them wrote songs celebrating the one-night stands. If one wanted it, it was common to have sex a lot in the 1970s, with a lot of different people, and considered relatively normal. Date rape was a problem, but dealt with in a variety of ways. I think she's describing something that we today cannot fully understand. She was abused, and there's no excuse for that, but it seems she also put herself in a situation she could have escaped from.
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Interesting. She had strict, conservative parents as a teenager, yet she was in foster care during her teenage years. She had no close relationships yet she shared an unbreakable bond with her sister. Looks like she writes whatever will sell, with her starring as the perpetual victim.
I'm interested in what the folks here think of this article. Certainly the first time she got molested, she clearly didn't know what she was getting herself into. But she says she still has a photo album full of rock stars she partied with and backstage passes she obtained. It was not news back then that rock stars liked them young, and she knew after the first encounter what the price of backstage admission was. Do you think that her psyche today might benefit from taking a modicum of responsibility for putting herself in those situations?
I think she describes a situation a lot of young girls got themselves into decades ago when they wanted to meet the band. Some of them were willing, others escaped, and others describe unexpected horrific circumstances, such as with Led Zeppelin. She's developed a story of her supposed experience that's a form of click bait, IMO, where she knows what readers are likely to want to read. That said, I don't want to victim-blame. Some rock bands were often known for their abuses of young women, which was never OK. Some of them wrote songs celebrating the one-night stands. If one wanted it, it was common to have sex a lot in the 1970s, with a lot of different people, and considered relatively normal. Date rape was a problem, but dealt with in a variety of ways. I think she's describing something that we today cannot fully understand. She was abused, and there's no excuse for that, but it seems she also put herself in a situation she could have escaped from.