Billy Braggism - please break it down for me!

[Bosky]

New to this debate and I am finding it so confusing. When I was growing up we only ever knew one Billy Bragg but now they seem to be everywhere. Is it true that they are as common as people with blue hair?
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When I say "common" I don't mean "common", you know like Coronation St common, although the old Billy Bragg, the young one really, made a big thing about being common although there was only one of him then. Or them then.

Now he is very rich, so not common, but I think that's cis Billy Bragg because I do believe people when they say that Trans Billy Braggs are an oppressed minority and should be protected. Anyway, is it that common to have blue hair or is it a bit middle class really?

I haven't got anything against Trans Billy Braggs, honestly, I just don't know why people would want to do it? They're even telling kids in primary school now that they can identify as Billy Bragg. And you've got parents taking their kids to Drag Billy Bragg Time! 😱
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It's just not age-appropriate. If adults want to play folk guitar, that's fine, but I still think they should get psychological help first.

I tried to find out more but its like they don't want us to find out what's really going on. The only definition I could find said, "Did you actually mean ballpark or bullfrog?"
www.definitions.net/definition/Billy+Bragg

I think that's a bit rude and perhaps explains why there's so much prejudice against Trans Billy Braggs. Just because cis Billy Bragg talks bollocks and can't sing for toffee it's not fair to assume that all Trans Billy Braggs are like that.

I mean, they can wear wigs and practice smirky-swaggering condescension all they like but you can tell Real Billy Bragg a mile off!
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Are we allowed to say "Real Billy Bragg" in here BTW? I don't want to get banned for being Trans Billy Braggophobic.

I just think cis Billy Bragg needs to acknowledge his privilege and STFU when trans Billy Braggs are speaking. He needs to 👏stop 👏speaking 👏over 👏the 👏trans 👏com👏munity. 👏

And I don’t know if it’s allowed by mods but it’s not very polite to refer to him as Real Billy Bragg, and if you were a real ally you wouldn’t. 👀Trans Billy Brags are valid, and important. And also much better in every way than cis Billy Bragg despite being misunderstood victims. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

Careful now, you know a bit of humour will not be tolerated for long!

No offence meant! Thank you for educating me, TastefulRainbowUnicorn!

I appreciate the emotional labour involved and I know I don't deserve it. I will try to do better!

I really want to be a good ally to Trans Billy Braggs. It's just that I'm so used to, you know, thinking of cis Billy Bragg as "real" Billy Bragg. I realise now that it's just that he was privileged to have been correctly assigned Billy Bragg at birth.

Love the hands clapping and the flags BTW. I hope one day I will have enough confidence to be like you. I'm crying a little bit now - so happy to have found my people! 😭

I'm not a record company executive but I know a Billy Bragg when I hear one

Does Billy Bragg still talk about poetry with the taxman (or woman)? Still between the wars?

He looks like Robert De Nonbinero
Drives a Mitsubishi Zhir-o

Oh my god I've done a wrongthink, I'm so very genuinely sorry.

I meant 'zir'. Zhir has of course a completely different meaning:

www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Zhir

Means "Grease" in the Russian Language. it can also relate to a big fat, ugly woman that can be mistaken for a Hippopotamus.

I'll report myself for re-education and do better, immediately.

I can't claim to be the current iteration of Billy Bragg. But I was him in between the wars.There was a lovely sepia photograph of me/ him leading the Jarrow hunger march.

I feel nothing like Billy Bragg. I presume that makes me non-Braggary.

Surely anyone and everyone who publically or privately identifies as Billy Bragg or might do so at some future point, with or without self-disclosure, has an equal, persistent, and retroactive/anteroactive right to, at any time, selectively claim any and all advantages of being unquestionably included in the social, legal, political, and economic class of Billy Bragg?

Off to research royalties!! 🤑

FFS, doesn't everyone know that if you plant Billy Bragg in a flowerbed your entire garden will soon by heaving with Billy Braggs? Next, the rest of your street, then your city. You can't get rid of them. You're meant to put a Billy Bragg in a separate planter and make sure there's no hole for the roots to sneak down through.

Or is that mint?

All I know is, if Billy Bragg is ever invited to take part in anything we should all complain if they just ask cis Billy Bragg and they don't ask at least one trans Billy Bragg, especially as the odds of a trans Billy Bragg being able to sing better are about 200 to 1. We also need to complain if organisations use the exclusionary term 'Billy Bragg' and fail to make it clear if they mean cis, trans or any of the other variants.

I, for one, am looking forward to the flag and the pedestrian crossing.

I hope cis Billy Bragg would want to support full inclusiveness for him's Trans Siblings by requiring all advertising, posters, tickets, announcements, merch, VIP areas, etc. to specify "Cis Billy Bragg".

This would make it abundantly clear that only authentic, self-identified, true Billy Braggs are entitled to be showcased as "Billy Bragg".

This would avoid the usual confusion, disappointment, wasted journeys and inconvenience of obtaining refunds when Billy Bragg fans turn up, only to find out at the last minute that Cis Billy Bragg has stolen the limelight YET AGAIN!!

This causes real harm to vulnerable Billy Bragg fans. He has been told - but says he "forgets". 🙄

Yeah, Cis Billy! Pull the other one!

I'm Billy Bragg questioning, how will I know if I'm really a trans Billy Bragg and not a Billy Bragg trender.

I feel more like myself when I talk down to women, fortunately I haven't had to pretend to be working class and I've joined a union.

Does The Red Flag belong to trans Bragg's? I'd like to hang one out of my bedroom window to signal my home is a safe space for other trans Braggs.

I want to see a trans drag Bragg flag.

That's Billy Bindweed mate

🤣🤣🤣

I dress up as Billy Bragg and perform at a club on Saturday nights. I'm a Bragg artist.

Damn. I wondered why I could never get it to sing.

Braggadocio talking.

I draw stuff in chalk on walls and then write glowing reviews about my own work. I call it Bragg Art.

Are you confusing Billy Brag with a willy brag?

Quite scruffy? Like cake and folk music in plodding 4/4 time? Maybe you could identify as a Braggamuffin.

I'm non-billybraggary

Billy Bragg Gruff

Billy plays guit-aaaaar