Posted on 09/01/2023 10:27:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A popular rockstar just got canceled for sharing the same views as a majority of Americans.
On Friday, the gothic makeup brand Vampyre Cosmetics dropped a collaboration with legendary rock artist Alice Cooper over the singer’s recent comments about transgenderism.
During a mid-week interview with Stereogum, the performer joined his celebrity peers Paul Stanley and Dee Snider in sharing concerns about the contemporary transgender craze.
“I’m understanding that there are cases of transgender, but I’m afraid that it’s also a fad,” Cooper said. “And I’m afraid there’s a lot of people claiming to be this just because they want to be that.”
“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,'” Cooper said.
Vampyre Cosmetics responded to the comments with a statement the following day.
“In light of recent statements by Alice Cooper we will no longer be doing a makeup collaboration,” the company wrote. “We stand with all members of the LGBTQIA+ community and believe everyone should have access to healthcare.”
Vampyre was preparing to debut a new collection with “the undisputed Godfather of Shock Rock.” The makeup company started taking preorders on Aug. 14. Last week’s statement clarified all sales will be refunded.
With Cooper’s net worth reportedly at $50 million, the cosmetic line needed the partnership with “the original makeup disruptor” far more than he needed them. The impulsive cancellation is a bad business decision for a company that might want to expand — and stupid in light of public opinion.
There’s nothing remotely controversial in Cooper’s comments on transgenderism. A series of polls out this spring found the pendulum swinging away from support for permanent transgender medical interventions for kids.
A Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation poll in May found that an overwhelming majority of adults, nearly 7 in 10, oppose puberty blockers for children aged 10 to 14. Nearly 6 in 10 oppose cross-sex hormones for 15- to 17-year-olds.
Fifty-five percent of Americans also told Gallup it is “morally wrong” to “chang[e] one’s gender.”
Another poll last fall from Summit.org with McLaughlin and Associates found that 75 percent, or 3 in 4 Americans, agreed the transgender movement has “gone too far.”
[RELATED: Support For Transgenderism Is Cratering]
If Vampyre Cosmetics were interested in expanding its products to a broad audience, the company might have stayed silent over the few headlines generated from Cooper’s interview. Corporations, however, too often seem to forget that not saying anything is an option. But Vampyre Cosmetics is clearly playing to a different audience — the same one that terrorized state capitols in Tennessee, Montana, Kansas, Kentucky, Florida, Oklahoma, and Missouri for the sake of child access to irreversible transgender procedures.
Cooper didn’t say anything that was remotely disparaging of trans people. The singer simply questioned the left’s proclivity to affirm child gender dysphoria — or simply to cultivate confusion. In other words, he committed thought crimes.
Meanwhile, transgenderism is the only area of modern medicine where the patient guides the so-called treatment. The compassionate standard of care for anorexic teens, for example, is not to “affirm” body dysmorphia by calling patients fat and recommending them for liposuction. The response is intensive therapy to guide the patients to reality.
This is getting confusing.
Dog bit me on the leg today, the cat clawed my eye...
Who knew that one day, Alice Cooper would be making sense, and Government, Medicine, Academia, and Law Enforcement would NOT.
Agreed. This is confusing, it makes my eyes bug out, my tail stand up and I ain’t even in heat for a month.
One thing is for certain……..he doesn’t give a rip.
I know polling has limitations. But overwhelming majorities oppose all this transgender business in these polls.
And yet, the people who run this company just prove again that cancel culture is real. Sometimes the liberals say it’s a figment of our imagination.
They also issue a statement which makes no sense. They say they want all LGBT etc to have access to health care. Nobody is denying anyone healthcare. None of us want to deny healthcare to anyone.
Holy cow - if cosmetics companies are hiring the likes of Dylan Mulvaney and Alice Cooper to promote demand, they must really be desperate.
i am no longer going to by my mascara from them.
More like he cancelled them.
Saw him the other day in Raleigh. Great show along with rob zombie.
The seriously mentally ill and delusional people who truly believe a man can magically change into a woman have been running the government for the past three years; now they’re taking over corporate America. I suggest this is not a “good thing” for our society or for our Republic, and I’ll likely be labeled a “hater” by the seriously mentally ill and delusional as they appear to have become a “protected class”.
Legend has it that he used the name of a 17th century witch named Alice Cooper for his band's name and later changed his name (Vincent Damon Furnier) legally to Alice Cooper.
“We stand with all members of the LGBTQIA+ community...”
...which means they also agree it’s ok to tell a 6 year old boy he can be a girl if he wants to be. And to have perv trannies reading to kindergartners while on their laps and on and on.
This is getting confusing.
Alice married in 1976 and his wife, Sheryl, still performs with him on stage. She is a dancer and choreographer when they met. He is far more traditional than many would guess. His close friends going back included Groucho Marx and Jack Benny.
He’s done fine for like 60 years and I doubt he will lose much sleep over this deal.
That name was originally the name of the band, and he went under his real name Vince Furnier.
Their contact number is 213-952-7999
Tried to call but its incessantly busy. Guess they’ve been getting a lot of calls.
Hes been fairly conservative for a long time. His "Alice" persona is a stage act. He's pretty up front about that.
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