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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Boy George on JKR

50 replies

WandaWomblesaurus73 · 05/01/2022 09:25

mobile.twitter.com/BoyGeorge

If that links.

His last few tweets are just stupid. Actually wilfully stupid.

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TInkyWlnky · 05/01/2022 09:35

The same Boy George who was sentenced to 15 months in prison for chaining a man to the radiator and beating him? No one is interested in Boy George's opinion on anything.

bishophaha · 05/01/2022 09:40

He's not the most coherent. I'm not even sure what he's saying. "I remember when JKR had an imagination" suggests he thinks she's not making up what she's saying?

Don't really care. A while ago he attracted the TRA ire for saying something vaguely disparaging about pronouns or something.

Linguini · 05/01/2022 09:47

He's attention seeking.
Ignore.

AllTheUsernamesAreAlreadyTaken · 05/01/2022 09:55

@Linguini

He's attention seeking. Ignore.
Just about to put the exact same thing.
IvyTwines · 05/01/2022 10:02

If he had called himself 'Girl Georgina, she/her' back in the day it wouldn't have been shocking, challenging, radical or attention-creating. Conservative, middle-aged people would have just thought oh, Georgina is one of those 'born in the wrong body' transsexual people we read about in the papers, like that Bond girl or April Ashley.

What was great about the 'gender bending' stars and music tribes of the 70s and 80s was that they showed young people there were many ways to be a man or a woman while being happy in yourself, comfortable in your body. Annie Lennox wore a sharp suit and severe haircut. Goth and New Romantic men and women piled on the eye shadow, lippy and hairspray, Punk, crusty and grebo girls and boys did the opposite, mud and scruffiness and army surplus boots. What's happening with young people now is so regressive. And they don't have a music scene where they can get out into the outside world, to gigs and clubs and festivals, watching real human people perform on real stages, while singing and dancing. Instead they obsess over fantasy series and computer games, made up people played by actors or animated, in made up worlds viewed in isolation from their bedrooms.

ditalini · 05/01/2022 10:04

Bandwagon jumping.

Like Jon Stewart.

And Sarah "I've never read or watched anything to do with Harry Potter in my whole life, really I haven't, but my, she's clearly an evil witch" Silverman.

I'd say it's like sharks smelling blood in the water, but it's more like pesky little pathetic fleas trying to bite an elephant.

KittenKong · 05/01/2022 11:23

On the bandwagon. I had a peek at his old mate Marilyn’s twitter account but he seems to be in a very angry ‘bad place’ right now so we can’t expect any ‘shut up George’ tweets.

Pudmyboy · 05/01/2022 11:28

I'd say it's like sharks smelling blood in the water, but it's more like pesky little pathetic fleas trying to bite an elephant.
@ditalini brilliant!

ShagMeRiggins · 05/01/2022 11:34

Actually, in the context of the photo he was commenting on, I took his statement to mean that what she was saying is correct and factual, hence a joking reference to imagination and the clearly make believe world of Harry Potter.

Kind of like the made up world of gender identity.

ShagMeRiggins · 05/01/2022 11:35

Then again I haven’t read the tweets. Just got through empresscixi thread and am all tuckered out.

IvyTwines · 05/01/2022 12:49

@ShagMeRiggins

Actually, in the context of the photo he was commenting on, I took his statement to mean that what she was saying is correct and factual, hence a joking reference to imagination and the clearly make believe world of Harry Potter.

Kind of like the made up world of gender identity.

Yes, it's not clear. Earlier on he's lamenting the exclusion of JKR from the show. I wonder if one of the reasons JKR may have felt the need to engage with this issue is that, as a fantasy world builder herself, she must be well aware of how intensely some people, especially lonely teenagers, engage with and even lose themselves in make-believe magical worlds, but that for some youngsters this has led to them, via online fandom, to make permanent, drastic changes to their bodies that many will come to regret when they get older.
AlecTrevelyan006 · 05/01/2022 14:00

Imagination is for storybooks, not legislation.

WandaWomblesaurus73 · 05/01/2022 14:45

@bishophaha

He's not the most coherent. I'm not even sure what he's saying. "I remember when JKR had an imagination" suggests he thinks she's not making up what she's saying?

Don't really care. A while ago he attracted the TRA ire for saying something vaguely disparaging about pronouns or something.

Maybe you are right. I can't even tell anymore.
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2319inprogress · 05/01/2022 17:13

I assumed he had been told off for lamenting JK's absence from the TV thing & was shoring himself up on the other side Hmm

ArabellaScott · 05/01/2022 17:32

@TInkyWlnky

The same Boy George who was sentenced to 15 months in prison for chaining a man to the radiator and beating him? No one is interested in Boy George's opinion on anything.
Yep. I don't care what Boy George who kidnapped and tortured a man has to say.
Mollyollydolly · 05/01/2022 17:34

He's just looking for attention. Arsehole.

WandaWomblesaurus73 · 05/01/2022 19:55

I literally had no idea about the assault case until just now (I missed an earlier post saying so)

I've now read the news on it and BLOODY HELL.
Not sure how I missed it as we sometimes went to the same bars and clubs (never spoke)

I always preferred Marilyn!

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BettyFilous · 05/01/2022 22:51

@TInkyWlnky

The same Boy George who was sentenced to 15 months in prison for chaining a man to the radiator and beating him? No one is interested in Boy George's opinion on anything.
I thought the same.
MargaritaPie · 06/01/2022 00:04

How come he has been voted red on Shinigami Eyes app when his tweets appear to be in support/defence of transpeople?

KimikosNightmare · 06/01/2022 01:44

@MargaritaPie

How come he has been voted red on Shinigami Eyes app when his tweets appear to be in support/defence of transpeople?
I doubt any one here will be able to answer that question. Whatever faults you might think posters here have I very much doubt that any one is submitting feedback to Shiningami Eyes.

Or was your question rhetorical?

CheeseMmmm · 06/01/2022 04:52

'O'Dowd told him: "Now you're going to get what you deserve." Carlsen said he was then beaten and handcuffed to a wall fixture. When O'Dowd returned to the room with a box of leather straps, chains and sex toys, he said: "Now you're going to get it."

Carlsen told the jury he only escaped after wrenching the fixture free, but was beaten with a chain by the singer as he fled into the street in Shoreditch, east London'

Not a person I'd listen to on risks related to male sexual violence tbh.

(Unless he's being sarcastic in which case he knows the risk of male sexual violence personally, having restrained a man and fetched a box of restraints sex toys etc).

Charley50 · 06/01/2022 05:11

I always wondered how his victim felt about Boy George being a judge on the Voice. Another awful BBC decision.

Mummyoflittledragon · 06/01/2022 05:27

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PurgatoryOfPotholes · 06/01/2022 06:27

@MargaritaPie

How come he has been voted red on Shinigami Eyes app when his tweets appear to be in support/defence of transpeople?
So you've downloaded this app then?
CheeseMmmm · 06/01/2022 07:28

I was really fucked off by him being judge on the voice