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An Unwanted Kiss on ‘American Idol’
The New York Times ^ | March 14th, 2018 | By KATHERINE ROSMAN

Posted on 03/14/2018 10:14:28 AM PDT by Mariner

When Benjamin Glaze, at the time a 19-year-old cashier from Enid, Okla., auditioned for “American Idol,” he had hoped his big moment would come as he belted out “Stadium,” a song he wrote himself. That or Nick Jonas’s 2015 single “Levels.”

Instead, it came when the popstar Katy Perry, a judge on the show, surprised him by kissing him smack on the lips, moments before his audition. He had never been kissed before.

“I was a tad bit uncomfortable,” Mr. Glaze said by phone this week, after the incident aired on the season premiere. His first kiss was a rite of passage he had been putting off with consideration. “I wanted to save it for my first relationship,” he said. “I wanted it to be special.”

“Would I have done it if she said, ‘Would you kiss me?’ No, I would have said no,” he said. “I know a lot of guys would be like, ‘Heck yeah!’ But for me, I was raised in a conservative family and I was uncomfortable immediately. I wanted my first kiss to be special.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


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The lady doth protest too much.
1 posted on 03/14/2018 10:14:28 AM PDT by Mariner
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To: Mariner

So, what’s it gonna be? Harassment in reverse?


2 posted on 03/14/2018 10:15:57 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: Mariner

What “lady” are you talking about. Katy Perry is a skank and I am pretty sure I wouldn’t want to be kissing her.

HPV is a terrible thing to share.

Or do you think the young man is lying?


3 posted on 03/14/2018 10:16:46 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: wbarmy

KATY PERRY IS THE ONE WHO MADE THIS SONG A HIT


4 posted on 03/14/2018 10:18:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: wbarmy

I would guess the 19yr old male is closer to gay, than conservative.


5 posted on 03/14/2018 10:18:51 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

THIS is the type of childish fantasy we’ve created in this country.

When a mere kiss is placed on such a pedestal, someone hasn’t matured.


6 posted on 03/14/2018 10:19:56 AM PDT by CodeToad (Dr. Spock was an idiot!.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Korben Dallas: When she woke up, she said a bunch a stuff. I didn't understand any of it but... what does 'ecto gammat' mean?

Priest Vito Cornelius: Uh... never again, without my permission.

Korben Dallas: That's what I thought.



--- The Fifth Element (1997)

7 posted on 03/14/2018 10:20:11 AM PDT by Scooter100
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To: Mariner

It really never crossed the mind of these stalwarts of public morality that some consider their bodies as ‘Temples’
I know Joy Behar & Co would consider them mentally ill.


8 posted on 03/14/2018 10:21:31 AM PDT by griswold3 (Just another unlicensed nonconformist in am dangerous Liberal world.)
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To: Mariner

And I guess if one of the male judges had done that to a girl who was auditioning, it would have been fine.

Every single woman in this country would have went stark raving mad at the sexual assault.

But go ahead, be a jerk. But I know young men who are trying to stay pure for their future wives, and I will support their attempt more than you slamming some man because he got what you lust after.


9 posted on 03/14/2018 10:24:18 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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#me2. LOL! He better get some anti-biotics stat. 🙀👀🎤🎼
10 posted on 03/14/2018 10:27:10 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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“But I know young men who are trying to stay pure for their future wives”

The guy was casually kissed by Katy Perry, and his taken offense made it to the New York times.

In addition to my gaydar suspicion, if I’m wrong...his daddy never taught him how to man up.

I don’t mind that you defend puritans. Somebody has to.

But the kid is clearly a pussy.


11 posted on 03/14/2018 10:29:26 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

Looking at Perry lately, it appears that she is the 19 year old boy.


12 posted on 03/14/2018 10:30:22 AM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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To: SeekAndFind
So, what’s it gonna be? Harassment in reverse?

Hisassment.

13 posted on 03/14/2018 10:32:30 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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#me2. LOL! He better get some anti-biotics stat. 🙀👀🎤🎼

He's now munched a carpet by proxy.

14 posted on 03/14/2018 10:34:21 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: South Hawthorne

“Looking at Perry lately, it appears that she is the 19 year old boy.”

19 year old boys are not built that way.


15 posted on 03/14/2018 10:36:55 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

Even if this fellow is gay, he ought to just shut up, and enjoy the heightened level of attention. Does he not know how show business works? That could have been his entry pass into
more contract negotiations or other exposure. I think the phrase ‘douche’ was made for moments like this one.
Throwing the baby out with the bathwater.


16 posted on 03/14/2018 10:41:30 AM PDT by lee martell
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Oh for damn sake, kid grow up. What an ars! If I was there as a unkissed kid and that happened I would never forget this a real happy event in my life and treasure it.
17 posted on 03/14/2018 10:41:57 AM PDT by Logical me
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To: Mariner

“Katy Perry is a RAPIST.” Shout it from the rooftops until her career is destroyed. After all we MUST have gender equality!


18 posted on 03/14/2018 10:43:03 AM PDT by montag813
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You wouldn’t understand. The boy will have a better marriage than 75% of this country has. Good for him.


19 posted on 03/14/2018 10:52:09 AM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: Mariner

People really need to more readily spot these false outrage stories planted in the press to garner PR and, they hope, ratings.

See also: companies pushing products or services which are unilaterally declared controversial. It’s the worst and laziest sort of gaslighting.


20 posted on 03/14/2018 10:52:22 AM PDT by relictele
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