Billy Bragg and new lyric to sexuality.

[PriamFarrl]

He is trending on Twitter and the tweets are interesting.

As an example.

twitter.com/strobe_lightly/status/1458817866975703045?s=21

twitter.com/grace_hawthorn/status/1458899642792525829?s=21

Poor Billy getting a pushback. Couldn’t happen to a more mansplaining, condescending, painfully flattened-left bloke

Fucking hell, the sight of him mansplaining feminism to Jean Hatchet

That Jean Hatchet thread on twitter. I cant believe what a complete arsehole he is, currently arguing with trans women, lesbians, gay men, and anyone else with a brain. It's like a parallel universe.

‘ Billy Bragg
@billybragg
·
3h
Replying to
@Florencefoofoo

@JeanHatchet
and 4 others
TBH it breaks my heart to see people who claim to be feminists siding with people who would deprive them of their rights in a moment.’

My irony meter is off the scale.

And HOW DARE HE say ‘people who claim to be feminists’ to Jean Hatchet?

He comes across as quite reasonable to me.

Is that you Billy?

Straight white male ‘explaining’ feminism, gay and trans rights is not a good look.

Imagine mansplaining feminism to Jean Hatchet! 😂

What an grade A bellend!

I'm sorry but this is fucking hilarious. What an absolute plonker 😆

From:
Just because you're gay, I won't turn you away.
If you stick around, I'm sure that we can find some common ground.

Now:
Just because you're they, I won't turn you away.
If you stick around, I'm sure that we can find the right pronoun.

I'm dying 😆

Jesus. Because nobody's bothered about gay men anymore and trans people are on the "front line". Stonewall logic in a fecking nutshell really.

To be honest I always thought that line meant he was all up for bringing a bloke into his 'sexuality', not having a nice chat about how they're not all that different and he won't kick his head in. Always wondered how it got on the radio 😂

As people on the thread pointed out, I'm not sure Billy's input would be appreciated in "finding the right pronoun" for the average non binary person.

I do love it when men tell women what goes on in women's toilets

So if he's so woke about gender and pronouns and all his shit why is it only men that deserve a living wage? Cunt.

I've been trying to get rid of some tickets for one of his shows for months.
Bought them for someone else and it I can't get rid of the bastard things even at a 50% reduction.
Zero chance of me going now I've become acquainted with his absolute bullshit.
He has some catchy tunes.
Shame he hates women. shrug

It all just stinks of old.white guy trying desperately to be down wiv da kids.
If he wasn't famous, he'd be buying addidas trainers, skinny jeans and going to the nightclubs with 15 year olds with fake ID

He's always been an A grade lefty know it all mansplainer.

The sheer volume of lefty men coming out as total misognists has been eye opening. I always knew that loads when taking about workers society etc meant the men but still. It's been so many and so blatant.

And the new lyric is terrible! I mean to sing etc. Really clunky.

And of course.

Wouldn't the trans person know their pronouns? Why does BB think any trans person needs help from him to work out how to ID?

He's managed to piss everyone off!

I always hated that song anyway.

So lecturing overegged etc.

I'm sure I like one of his songs will have to Google.

I did used to think he was pretty cool when I was a sixth former

They were shit clunky lyrics anyway. Now they're slightly more so. Poor dumb Billy.

Greetings to the new brunette and of course new England.

I used to like that song about Essex he done. Something about 'if you go to Shoeburyness take the a road the one that's best the A13 the A13'.

The lad needs to stick to naming roads. You know where you are with roads.

The new lyrics read like a Hunsnet meme. Someone will be along soon to figure out your pronouns dallyn.

twitter.com/billybragg/status/1458800832590368774
Telling on himself here that he only mentions gay men. Amazing the number of leftie blokes that have a massive blind spot where it comes to the experiences of women. Good to see several people picking him up on that in the replies.

As far as the lyric change goes, I'm not that fussed, as I always found the original Sexuality rather twee lyrically anyway, and my favourite thing about it was Kirsty's backing vocals.