Active discussions

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Feminism: chat

Original poster

Wanna read some garbled bullshit on the BBC news website?

37 replies

bellinisurge · 09/06/2023 10:19

Cos here it is.

Janelle Monaé's sensuous new album fights back at anti-LGBTQ laws www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65844245

Best I can work out from the drivel, she's a woman who enjoys sex and who may be bisexual.

OP posts:
WickedSerious · 09/06/2023 13:25

Never heard of her.

AlisonDonut · 09/06/2023 12:19

MrsJamin · 09/06/2023 11:34

I loved Janelle Monae's tightrope and other songs and she's a great actor too but this is just nonsense from her - why is she not saying "I'm a woman and female and just like this because that's my personality to be who I am". These women let down all of us who don't conform to restrictive stereotypes as they reinforce those boundaries of what you can wear, what you can do etc and still be bloody female.

Look at what happened to Macy Gray when she did. It was like a hostage video the apology.

Original poster
bellinisurge · 09/06/2023 12:10

@BernardBlacksMolluscs not Phoebe Bridgers. Like her stuff. Why don't these dopes see what's coming? Or take the chance to focus on LGB. Lesbians, Gay men and bisexual people are going to get caught in the inevitable backlash that will come from the lawsuits arising from child surgical mutilation.

OP posts:
MorrisZapp · 09/06/2023 11:50

So, upbeat, celebratory tunes sung by a semi nude straight woman?

How very... forward thinking 😂

BernardBlacksMolluscs · 09/06/2023 11:45

Yup

love her music, find her personally tedious. It’s a bit of a shame but there you are

she can live in the same box as Phoebe Bridgers who also makes amazing music and has stupid views about gender

MrsJamin · 09/06/2023 11:34

I loved Janelle Monae's tightrope and other songs and she's a great actor too but this is just nonsense from her - why is she not saying "I'm a woman and female and just like this because that's my personality to be who I am". These women let down all of us who don't conform to restrictive stereotypes as they reinforce those boundaries of what you can wear, what you can do etc and still be bloody female.

tellmewhentheLangshiplandscoz · 09/06/2023 11:05

Best I can work out from the drivel, she's a woman who enjoys sex and who may be bisexual.

//

This. But obviously the first female artist to write sexy songs that might make some people blush. Yup, definitely no one's ever done that

Original poster
bellinisurge · 09/06/2023 10:59

@BriceNobeslovesMurielHeslop , that explains a lot

OP posts:
Original poster
bellinisurge · 09/06/2023 10:27

The forced teaming with LGB is so grotesque. Those laws are , if anything, challenging TQ+ not LGB.

OP posts:
RoseslnTheHospital · 09/06/2023 10:25

She's not even a "tom boy" or particularly androgynous in her presentation. She is a typical female popstar presenting in a stereotypical hyper-feminine way. The identifying as "non-binary" really is the "I'm not like those other girls" claiming of special status for the 21st century. "Non-binary" is utterly devoid of meaning, relevance or importance.

BriceNobeslovesMurielHeslop · 09/06/2023 10:24

I used to love Janelle Monae, but this is all getting a bit navel gazing for me.
To think that she was accused of being a T**F when she released Pynk.

FluffyCat17 · 09/06/2023 10:21

Yeah I saw that and gave up.
Remembering those heady teenage days when I knew I was a tomboy and not a girlie girl and…that’s it.