“Oh, absolutely,” Tyler responded with a laugh, according to Edwards, “How can a father not be attracted to his daughter, especially when she’s a cross between the girl he married and himself? Unless he’s an ugly man, a father is always gonna be sexually attracted to his daughter on a certain level… However, the real man knows that’s just a place to never go. There’s ways to love it without making love to it; I wrote ‘Janie’s Got a Gun’ about fathers who don’t know the difference.”

As a father with daughters: No fucking way. I will never listen to his music again if that's what he thinks. That's heinous, and to go out and publicly announce you wanna fuck your daughter... What the fuck. Ew, please stop breathing.

for anyone who wants the full context, as I did:

Does Steven Tyler ever find himself inappropriately attracted to his daughter Liv?

That’s one of those questions you ask last in an interview, in case the guy gets offended and hangs up the phone. But when I asked Tyler, the Aerosmith singer replied, “Oh, absolutely,” adding his trademark cackle. “How can a father not be attracted to his daughter, especially when she’s a cross between the girl he married and himself? Unless he’s an ugly man, a father is always gonna be sexually attracted to his daughter on a certain level.” So you’re saying incest is based in vanity? “Positively, there’s a certain level of narcissism in incest. All a man has to do is be totally honest with himself and he can see it. However, the real man knows that’s just a place to never go. Instead he celebrates it by telling his daughter how beautiful she is and what a precious child of God she is. There’s ways to love it without making love to it–I wrote ‘Janie’s Got a Gun’ about fathers who don’t know the difference.”

(Excerpted from the 2006 book Is Tiny Dancer Really Elton’s Little John?: Music’s Most Enduring Mysteries, Myths, and Rumors Revealed, published by Three Rivers Press, written by Gavin Edwards.)

https://rulefortytwo.com/secret-rock-knowledge/chapter-7/steven-tyler-inappropriately-attracted-to-liv/

the context doesn't save it. I think I see what he was going for, but even as somebody without kids, I just don't see how you wouldn't entirely separate your child's appearance from your sexual attraction to her mother.

oh and ofc now I see the context OP added that was buried way down in the comments, after I spent time looking for it amongst a lot of dead ends

Uh.

Wut.

I... are people only now realizing steven tyler is, and has always been, a creep? He had legal custody of a 16yo and got her pregnant, while he was 25+

Ewwwwww, fuck that's nasty

I knew Steve was scum. I've also heard worrisome things about Foo Fighters supporting weird HIV disinformation onstage. I wasn't sure, but the fact that Grohl is collaborating with this creep makes me feel more certain that Foo Fighters are wrong 'uns too.

I don't normally just post reaction gifs but

Oh that brings back a shitty memory.

My father one day, told me apropos of fucking nothing, he was worried when we (me and twin) got to a certain age, he might find us attractive since after all we looked just like our mother. However, luckily he said, that never happened probably because he remembers changing diapers and feeding us and stuff.

It fucking squicked me out hard.

I'm going to shove that back into the vault.

Days without gross nonsense, zero

Jesus Christ, for real?

I have always despised this man, but I didn't think he was this vile, disgusting worm

Yeah, no... that's not normal... If you do this you're just a paedophile... Ewww

What the fuck? No! Ew! Ew ew ew ew!

Creeps are out in force on this thread eh?

As a Father, that sentence evoked a sense of disgust in me of which I was unaware I was capable of. What the actual fuck.

Well, at least he knows he'll always have a career as a GOP politician if he wants it

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

This guy and that orange must have spent time on an island together.

I feel like Liv's mother chose to raise her with a different man than her bio father, as her father for a reason.

Damn, Russel Brand looks worse every time I see him!

It’s quite funny when users on Lemmy don’t realize their down votes are public.