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Alice Cooper Claims Being Trans Is a Fad, Loses Deal With Cosmetics Company (www.advocate.com)

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Article by Advocate about another aging rock star, in this case Alice Cooper, being an intolerable bigot who lost touch with a world that is progressing beyond his limited imagination

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[–] HellAwaits@lemm.ee 108 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (43 children)

“I’m understanding that there are cases of transgender, but I’m afraid that it’s also a fad, and I’m afraid there’s a lot of people claiming to be this just because they want to be that,” he replied. “I find it wrong when you’ve got a six-year-old kid who has no idea. He just wants to play, and you’re confusing him telling him, ‘Yeah, you’re a boy, but you could be a girl if you want to be.’”

“Well, I can see somebody really taking advantage of this, though,” he said. “A guy can walk into a woman’s bathroom at any time and just say, ‘I just feel like I’m a woman today’ and have the time of his life in there, and he’s not in the least bit… He’s just taking advantage of that situation. Well, that’s going to happen. Somebody’s going to get raped, and the guy’s going to say, ‘Well, I felt like a girl that day, and then I felt like a guy.’ Where do you draw this line?”

So basically just regurgitating the same tired, talking points and offering zero thoughts of his own.

[–] Nutterthebutter@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

So if this is all what he said he's not against trans people. He's voicing his concerns towards what's going on. The headline is misleading and comments here are now outraged by taking what he says out of context as well.

[–] simplify@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

It's transphobic.

[–] JungleJim@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

But nobody is pretending to be a trans to get into a woman's bathroom. Also, rape is already illegal. Meaning he's getting worked up over imaginary ideas of what a repressed minority MIGHT do but haven't that is already illegal. And even if they DID, in no way shape or form is rape in a public restroom legally defensible because the attacker feels like they should've had the same private parts as the victim. It's all just stupid.

*Several edits and wording adjustments.

[–] Dekudibusei@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That's what I thought as well.

[–] lingh0e@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

His comments are literally regurgitated anti-trans talking points. It's not out of context to call them ignorantly bigoted.

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