Howard Donald (Take That) dropped fr9m Nottingham Pride after liking transphobic tweets

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Such as "only women menstruate"

https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.sky.com/story/amp/howard-donald-take-that-star-dropped-from-nottingham-pride-festival-after-anti-lgbtq-twitter-likes-12904325

He did also like some tweets by Andrew Tate but that's less problematic apparently.

He is now taking time to "educate himself". Good luck with that then!

Yes, they have always been clear that most of the early stuff happened at gay clubs and Nigel I assume did that deliberately.

According to India, they're a biological, straight woman, complete with cervix. What does India know of gay clubs?

Maybe India asked Jonathan?...

Hmm.
I remember Take That playing the club in my home town before they were famous (and before I was old enough to go!) And the sixty form girls being very excitable.
Take That owe their success to women who are now middle aged. But that's not a cool thing to say.

Sixth not sixty 😳

In the early days Take that struggled to get the teen market. They were then put out to the gay clubs and did photoshoots in leather to appeal to the gay crowd to get some money rolling in while the label tired to repackage them for teenage girls. After that they started playing schools.

No one is suggesting it’s not cool to say they owe their success to middle aged women, just inaccurate.

From what I understand the gay crown went off them years ago so it’s just middle aged women keeping them going now.

The devil himself?

Is believing in the devil (a gendered one at that) part of the gender identity religion?

Good to know!

How is it inaccurate to say that they owe their success to their core sales base?

In my opinion this is just the misogyny of the LGBT activists at play again. Take That were one of a number of boy bands who were successful in the 90s, filled the gap left by Bros splitting (as Boyzone did when TT split).

To imply they wouldn't have been successful if they hadn't played gay clubs is just bollocks IMO.

It's like being back in the middle ages with Henry VIII having jesters and fools performing his vicious politics and everyone having to figure out what to cheer and boo at a drunken party on pain of having your head on a stake if you have the wrong expression on your face.

It’s not an implication it’s simply fact.

It’s not misogynist to to state facts but it’s homophobic to put out lies claiming that TT didn’t market themselves to the gay audience after their first attempt at the teenage girl audience failed. Their first single was released for the gay market.

But like I explained to you in the previous message it’s purely the middle aged woman audience keeping them going now.

That's not the same as saying LGBT audiences were responsible for their success tho, as I W claimed.

Take That also played gigs at school assemblies if I remember rightly, so I imagine a lot of their success was down to hormonal teenagers, myself included! If they had been relying on ‘the gay pound’ to make them big then they would never have been as successful as they were/are. They’d maybe end up more like the Village People who did market themselves to gay men.

And I assume that the person who people think is behind this is NMS?

Nope it's a fan

Love this

Ah right, not much of a fan then are they?! 😁

He's too big to be playing a mediocre Pride event anyway. Go and count your millions with JKR Howard.

I'm assuming the Julie Bindel library cancellation was the Notts connection?

'Cancelling' is a construct that doesn't exist.

He had his opinions, you have yours, I have mine. Should I confirm to yours?

Good to find someone who understands the context of their words!

Fenlandia · 17/06/2023 19:07

I keep seeing references to onions in his socks. What does this mean, is it some mad conspiracy theory shit?

I've no idea, isn't it meant to keep colds and flu at bay?

My favourite moment of all time on Twitter was Rachel McKinnon/Veronica Ivy saying to Martina, "Don't you know who I am?" and listing "her" sporting achievements. To. Martina. Navratilova.

They're going to use that as the new dictionary definition of chutzpah