R. Kelly: Ongoing Legal Process

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but we have to remember that things were a lot different in the 2000s


I never even bothered listening to R Kelly's music based on his marriage w A. It just felt horribly wrong. As wrong as my best friend being 15 and having a 30 yo boyfriend. I don't/didn't blame the teenager but the adults. Society changes and I know that impacts how we se sexuality (and what's wrong/right) but at the end of the day it just feels wrong for me.

Two teenagers having sex is very very different than an adult having sex with a 15 yo girl. The power balance is different for example.

nathom, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 21:50 (five years ago) link

i believe omar little was being facetious

( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 22:13 (five years ago) link

i remember in 2002 thinking that a 24 year post-grad student going out with a 17 year school girl was weird lol

( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 22:14 (five years ago) link

If I were actually to consider accusing a network of looking to “profit” from these developments, it would be CBS for airing this week’s big two-part interview with R. Kelly. I guess he certainly has the right to defend himself on TV if he wants. But it feels like the exclusive, heavily promoted interview may serve to legitimize his position in some way? Idk

yuh yuh (morrisp), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 21:32 (five years ago) link

dude took all the wrong lessons from the Kavanaugh hearing

frogbs, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 21:38 (five years ago) link

But it feels like the exclusive, heavily promoted interview may serve to legitimize his position in some way?

Have you seen it? He pretty much set himself on fire.

grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 21:50 (five years ago) link

I’ve read excerpts.

yuh yuh (morrisp), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 21:52 (five years ago) link

Back in jail for unpaid child support.

grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 22:01 (five years ago) link

"also i said the same sorta stuff about king and boys, so yes it was to be expected."

who is King? wait was this S clover actually advocating for pederasty?

man the 2000's were crazy weird times.

akm, Thursday, 7 March 2019 03:51 (five years ago) link

i kind of get the rhetorical move he's trying to make t/o this thread... but suggesting that a 12(!!!!!!!!) yr old girl can grant "consent" to have intercourse with an adult male--as he indeed does above-- is an incredible thing to write.

affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Thursday, 7 March 2019 04:01 (five years ago) link

i believe he's gone from ILX so we can rake him over the coals safely I suppose.

akm, Thursday, 7 March 2019 04:05 (five years ago) link

he posted on here a bit kinda recently.

omar little, Thursday, 7 March 2019 04:14 (five years ago) link

it's more difficult to post with one hand holding an "R KELLY DID NOTHING WRONG" protest sign while standing outside a courthouse but he managed

omar little, Thursday, 7 March 2019 04:15 (five years ago) link

i'm not sure he was trying to apologize for r. kelly much as he was trying to introduce some nuance (usually a good gesture) into a situation that doesn't really call for nuance.

affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Thursday, 7 March 2019 04:19 (five years ago) link

i mean i can imagine a reasonable person writing something like "well, that 17 y.o. was very emotionally mature for her age" but trying to make that move w/ a 12 y.o.? holy shit.

affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Thursday, 7 March 2019 04:21 (five years ago) link

DeRo totally righteous on NPR's 1A right now.

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 March 2019 16:55 (five years ago) link

R. Kelly's lawyer from his 2008 trial is dying of cancer and wants everyone to know Kelly was 'guilty as hell' https://t.co/DKYioShMbx

— INSIDER (@thisisinsider) March 8, 2019

Simon H., Friday, 8 March 2019 19:34 (five years ago) link

ok, but wtf? -- Genson also told the paper he doesn't think Kelly is guilty of the current charges against him: "I don't think he's done anything inappropriate for years."

yuh yuh (morrisp), Friday, 8 March 2019 19:39 (five years ago) link

wow a lot to unpack in that article

frogbs, Friday, 8 March 2019 19:41 (five years ago) link

two years pass...

One of the men in the jury pool...who said he liked to crochet and had planned a trip to Germany to visit his boyfriend, said he wasn't too familiar with R. Kelly and thought the trial was about Robert Crumb, the 77-year-old cartoonist who signs his work as "R. Crumb."

https://www.insider.com/r-kelly-trial-lawyers-want-charges-dropped-jury-selection-begins-2021-8

jaymc, Tuesday, 10 August 2021 22:07 (two years ago) link

they both like feelin’ on your booty

bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Wednesday, 11 August 2021 02:41 (two years ago) link


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