Posted on 08/25/2023 12:58:15 PM PDT by Red Badger
Rock icon Alice Cooper ripped irreversible gender reassignment surgeries for children as a “fad” and trashed “woke” culture in a new interview.
The comments are the third from a high-profile rocker this year and the second to come from an iconic musician whose act at least partially included gender-bending.
In a wide-ranging interview with Stereogum about the state of his career and his ongoing touring, Cooper was asked about radical gender ideologies that are targeting young people.
The 75-year-old didn’t mince words while he shared his strong opinions on the “absurd” subject.
“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,” Cooper said in the interview, published Wednesday.
He said he viewed it as “wrong” when adults use the curiosity and sometimes confusion that comes with being young to push children into making life-altering decisions.
“I find it wrong when you’ve got a six-year-old kid who has no idea,” Cooper said. “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.’”
The singer then summed up the entire gender movement.
“It’s getting to the point now where it’s laughable,” he said. “If anybody was trying to make a point on this thing, they turned it into a huge comedy.”
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I hope he doesn’t apologize to the outrage crowd! Never apologize to the outrage crowd!
He helped bring this nonsense along. He and other old liberals are now appalled at the Frankenstein monster they stitched together.
Yes, my first thought too. The likes of him and david bowie were on the leading edge of this fad.
Like ‘normal’.........................
A few other classic rockers have come out against the transgender craziness recently. A couple of the KISS guys and Dee Snyder IIRC.
What has the world come to when Alice Cooper becomes the voice of reason?
He is a strong Christian.
https://alicecooperechive.com/articles/images/sm/time-1977-06-27.jpg
Check this one out if you can.
Alice knew how to separate kids from their money. Just do something that irritates their parents.
Good for him!
Yeah he hedged quite a bit. There is nothing comical about minor genital mutilation.
Dee Snyder is a flaming trans homo supporter
Cooper has always been mostly right leaning/Conservative.
Joey Ramone, as well, when he was alive
Boomer generation: I can’t believe I wore bell bottoms!
Gen X: I can’t believe I wore my hair that way!
Millennials: I can’t believe I was goth!
Generation Z: I can’t believe I cut my dick off!
Alice Cooper’s a dude?
how is that NOT confusing to children?
Alice Cooper was originally the name of the band................
I have to disagree at least with respect to Alice Cooper. I don’t recall he was ever into the “gender bending” type of thing.
David Bowie was another thing, and I never could bring myself to accept his work because of it. Sure, I listened to a few songs, but Bowie’s music was not something I ever wanted to dig into because his lifestyle repelled me.
I never got that vibe from Alice Cooper. He was more into the outrageous kind of things that a rocker of his day would use to poke at people to get a reaction, but homosexuality was not one of those things that I recall.
He had a song I remember called “I Love The Dead” which fell into that category. As teenagers, we heard that song and didn’t think he was actually supporting performing sex acts with dead people, we thought it was hilariously shocking, and was obviously intended to shock people. Even in that day, it seemed all showmanship to me.
I didn’t feel that way about David Bowie, Elton John, or Freddy Mercury. I felt they really were pushing their homosexual agenda, it wasn’t just “showmanship”.
That’s my opinion, I know others might feel differently, but I didn’t see him as one of those on the leading edge of this, the same way I saw those others.
LOL...sad, but LOL.
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