"I want to live in a world where I can be moved by art and music and literature without having to come up with elaborate apologies for that work or for its creators," Jennifer Finney Boylan, a transgender activist and author, wrote on Wednesday. Boylan urged listeners to scrap iconic artists and songs, including Don McLean's "American Pie" and the Rolling Stones' "Brown Sugar," if the artists have personal flaws or their lyrics are not sufficiently "inclusive" or "just."
Boylan's puritanical approach to popular culture comes as transgender people and activists have agitated for cancelling the comedian Dave Chappelle. In his recent standup special on Netflix, The Closer, Chappelle likened transgenderism to wearing blackface and said "gender is a fact."
Boylan said in the column that removing a work from an artist's repertoire might not go far enough. In response to Keith Richards's confusion about the Stones' recent decision to cut "Brown Sugar," a song about slavery, from future performances, Boylan said: "If the Stones don’t know why the song has to go, does simply removing it from their tour sheet go far enough?"
Go fuck yourself with an old shovel handle, you delicate-feelinged control freak.
5 comments:
Poor deranged little thing doesn't know which bathroom to use, but is sure about the correct meaning of often complex artistic productions. "It" would probably appreciate the pure propaganda/art that came out of Nazi Germany or the Bolshevik Conquest.
I agree with you, oohrah.
Shit is going to hit the fan with these douche bags one of these days.
American Pie? The thought police in action.
How is it any of her business what artists choose? I'm sick of having to justify my preferences to asshats like her.
And every time some clown like this announces "We should get rid of any song/book/play/movie/artist who bothers me", it makes more people decide "Screw you assholes." Which, said assholes may be amazed to discover, does not help their cause.
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