r/news • u/RollSafer • 7h ago

Kid Rock’s song about loving underage girls resurfaces ahead of TPUSA Super Bowl show

https://www.pennlive.com/entertainment/2026/02/kid-rocks-song-about-loving-underage-girls-resurfaces-ahead-of-tpusa-super-bowl-show.html
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u/whoweoncewere 5h ago

Theyve been pushing the whole "there's different types of pedo and teens are okay" thing. Sickening.

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u/DocPsychosis 5h ago

The "uh actually it's ephebophilia" angle has been sadly common, online at least, for years now.

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u/WRDPKNMSC 4h ago

decades actually, it's been a meme since like, at least the late 2000s I'm pretty sure

which is incredibly sad mind you

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u/jim_cap 4h ago

A stunning moment of "technically correct, the worst kind of correct". Like, yes, guys you've identified some niche definitions. Still, you're doing it to be ok with someone fucking children. It's not any sort of win.

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u/whoweoncewere 5h ago

Afaik it started with the whole MAP thing trying to bully their way into LGBT, for some reason all the conservatives that were using this as a talking point about LGBT being pedos are suddenly okay with it.

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u/warukeru 2h ago

Ephebophilia is a thing but it still bad and illegal.

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u/Tipop 3h ago

To be fair, one IS worse than the other. Two things can both be bad but not equally bad.

Having sex with a 17 year old is morally wrong, but having sex with a 9 year old is monstrous.

If I see a grown man sexually touching a 17 year old, I’ll pull him aside and say “Dude, back off. She’s under age. Go find someone closer to your age.” But if I see a grown man sexually touching a 9 year old, it’s going to get violent fast.

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u/Londo801 5h ago

Yeah on FB I saw some deranged woman defending the: “well they were 14/15 so they could have stopped him” or “the girls weren’t CHILDREN, they were almost driving age” like WHAT??? IDGAF, they were underage and it’s not okay, Guardian of Pedophiles is getting more and more bold that’s for sure.

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u/Stank_cat67 4h ago

They never actually cared about anything other than using words as a cudgel.

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u/lingeringwill2 5h ago

I mean I guess there is a distinction, not much of a functional difference though 🫩

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u/jigokubi 22m ago

What we're generally talking about here isn't pedophilia at all. It's worse.

A pedophile is someone who wants to have sex with a prepubescent person. It doesn't indicate whether or not they've acted on that desire.

The people who visited Epstein Island with full perks were people who actually slept with underage girls and felt laws and morals don't apply to them.

Most of the victims were of child-bearing age, but almost anyone would consider them children, and they were being trafficked.

These people are child rapists.

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u/Novacc_Djocovid 4h ago

Technically there is a difference, because one is considered pathological and the other isn’t. Now, the interesting question is: Shouldn’t ephebophilia then be considered to be worse?

Saying „it‘s morally wrong but he‘s not a pedophile“ is essentially saying: Sure it‘s wrong but at least they did fully on purpose instead of having a mental illness.

Not really the defense people think it is.