The first ever thread about Adam Ant in feminism!

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I've just been watching some Adam Ant on youtube to pass the time, as you do

And I was wondering what others would make of this video...

I have a couple of very dull and obvious observations...

Of coure, no-one really needs an excuse to watch an Adam Ant video but if you did, here it is!

Just the fact that Heath Ledger is living in a trailer home, carrying on, he is keeping life at arm's length. We had a few guys like that locally and you always wondered. Nothing specific. It really was a scene I recognised for some reason.

Watching him sing "Ridicule is nothing to be scared of" always makes me feel a bit sorry for him. After all, he did get arrested for pulling a gun on some drinkers in a pub who had been taking the mikey out of him

God do you know I haven't seen anything as attractive as that in YEARS

I was about 3 when that came out!

Oh yes - I love that song. I do like a bit of ambiguity.
(Shallow comment: shame the singer in FF is kind of dull.)

Ooh yes sprogger, I knew there was some nice recent sexual ambiguity. Love FF man...Alex Kapranos, I also have had a thing for Jarvis Cocker (pre weird beard days) and Brian Molko from Placebo, plus Queen. Any man who's not afraid to wear make-up and/or tight trousers, and dance, basically.

mm Placebo themed x-post. I had Nancy Boy on a tape (Now 36 IIRC) and I literally played it to death. It was so rude, and so sexy. Never was one of those little girls who liked Take That (spits)

I liked , on a more transvestitey theme.

dittany - I had never thought of that before about the totally unsexy Oasis etc, all those northern men who looked like they never washed let alone put on a nice slick of eyeliner :)

It was PJ Harvey for me. I still would.

What was the Riot Grrl thing?

Girl wise I liked Garbage who had a female singer...otherwise I've always preferred male groups . But then there are so few female groups who aren't just pure sugar and/or singing songs about love and boys :)

do you do that a lot, Proles? I can just see it at PTA meetings and the like.

"Some people say that little girls should be seen and not heard. But I say: 'Oh bondage, up yours!'"

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