Not escaping my notice that these and a lot of other peoples examples had their heyday in the 80s, an age of intense political and cultural backlash to gains by queer people and feminists, but I’m not sure what the significance is beyond that
Except Milton Berle didn’t claim to be a woman, demand access to the women’s locker room and a place on the women’s team, or demand to be “validated as a woman and threaten a hate-crime complaint if you didn’t. See the difference?
i feel like youve never actually talked to a trans person IRL and are just parroting these opinions from somewhere
if you must be a bigot, please do so quietly
Consider the possibility you're old and you've failed to take into account the neural plasticity of your brain to adapt. Or maybe not, famed feminist and author Ursula Le Guinn was already understanding Transgender dynamics as far back as the 70s you mediocre jackass.
The difference?
Yeah. You're flat out lying about any of those things being a thing.
You're a bigot.
Stop being bigoted.
Also, this ratio is sick.
No one agrees with you.
Take a hint
I genuinely don’t understand British Boomers who do this Like do these people not remember David Bowie or the fact that for most of the 20th century a man
Wearing a dress was considered the highest form of comedy in the UK?
an entire generation of metal fans, some of them very masculine and very homophobic, grew up in the 70s and 80s, fully kitted out in this outfit
now imagine their little faces when halford came out in 1998(!) and try not to laugh, i dare you
I was gonna say, I don't think labelling Judas Priest queer-coded makes a lot of sense when Rob Halford is one of only a handful of out gay men in metal and quite deliberately based his stage attire on fetish gear
I actually got to do this in real life with an openly homophobic metal fan I used to work with when I bought up the origins of the studded leather she loved wearing so much.
