The musician started dating Australian model Helena Vestergaard in 2013, and they split after being together for approximately two years.
Before that, Kiedis, now 63, had a relationship with Heather Christie, who was 22 years his junior. When the pair welcomed their son, Everly Bear, in 2007, Kiedis was 44 and his partner was 21.
In the latest episode of My Therapist Ghosted Me, Williams and her co-host Joanne McNally discussed age-gap relationships, with the former I’m a Celebrity campmate saying: “Do you know who else I find really disappointing, because I really like the Red Hot Chili Peppers? Anthony Kiedis.”
Seemingly referring to his romance with Vestergaard, Williams continued: “He is like 54 or something, and he is going out with a 19-year-old. And it is like, ‘Dude, what are you talking about?’”
McNally replied: “I’ve seen this. I just accept now that most men, all men, are drawn to – I’m going to be very careful how I say this – significantly younger women. That’s all I’m going to say. It is what it is and I don’t think there’s any getting away from it. We judge it but it’s not going to change.”
“I would have to say that it is not all men,” Williams continued. “Because I do think it is a very specific thing.”
Addressing why younger women might decide to date older men, McNally added: “And of course, people like him [Anthony Kiedis] and rockstars like him can get away with it because no 19-year-old girl wants to be going out with some old lad who is driving a Toyota Corolla around town.
I think either they’ve been the younger person in an age-gap relationship or they’re attracted to minors. But you’re right, it’s rapist cope.
Yea, that’s true. They unfortunately may be a victim in denial about what happened, trying to justify it and unwittingly becoming a rape apologist.
Either way it’s not good and I hope they get the help they need.
I hope you bullies get the help you clearly need. Y’all are mean.
You just conflated being gay with being a non-offending pedophile. You have seriously lost any shred of credibility you may have had.
I won’t be extending any more willingness to hear you out after that. Disgusting.
That is how I see you. In one comment you say that you do not hate non-offending pedophiles and then you are disgusted by the comparison to another marginalized group with a history of facing hate for immutable traits. You clearly do have hate for them.
Don’t compare pedophiles to gay people. It’s not the same.
I was comparing the hatred directed at them, which is very much comparable. For both groups, it is misplaced and causes harms. Yes tf I can compare the hate one group of people receives to that of another, especially when for both it is due to immutable attractions.
Disgusting
Go away.
Speculating about me like that, in a comment I’m less likely to see, is bullying behaviour. Not unexpected but gross.
People are free to make assumptions based on the views you express publicly.
Absolutely. And that doesn’t change that what y’all are doing is bullying, by publicly speculating such things as you are.
“This person disagrees with my use of words, as other users have similarly articulated. They must be a rapist or a child molester or a victim of such things.”
You’ve gone beyond disagreement and into excessive use of name-calling and insulting.
I’m not speculating because you disagree with me. I’m basing my speculation off of your defense of adults raping children.
You most certainly are doing so because of our disagreement on the use of these terms and you’re infinite doubling-down on dishonest language. As you just did, of course.
I guess it’s worked as you probably had hoped, garnering lots of activity on this thread. I find it especially interesting that you claimed you’re “working on making the fediverse more diverse.” lol
Yes, I post a lot about feminism and sexism along with local news subjects and occasionally politics. I also post a lot in this music community.
You have been justifying statutory rape throughout this thread. People, including me, are allowed to be repulsed by it.
I haven’t done that, and you know it.
You definitely do not make for a more diverse community by being so hateful and deceptive. I do remember seeing you get lots of hate in another thread a few weeks ago, and some of it did seem justified, as I see in this thread. I don’t remember the details, but I did know going into this thread that you would likely respond as you did.
But I did give you a chance to correct yourself and move on. When you didn’t, it caused me to continue making the points which you continue to ignore and pretend do not exist.
Of course I get hate - Lemmy is overwhelmingly white and male. An outspoken queer feminist is not going to gel well with that demographic all of the time.
You not understanding that there are many different types of rape doesn’t make me dishonest. Children cannot consent to sex with an adult. It is rape. And more specifically it is statutory rape.
I haven’t done that, and you know it. You definitely do not make for a more diverse community by being so hateful and deceptive. I do remember seeing you get lots of hate in another thread a few weeks ago, and some of it did seem justified, as I see in this thread. I don’t remember the details, but I did know going into this thread that you would likely respond as you did. But I did give you a chance to correct yourself and move on. When you didn’t, it caused me to continue making the points which you continue to ignore and pretend do not exist.