1980: Journalists and teachers were among my role models and beacons of sanity. And the guys in KISS were symptoms of the decline of civilization.
2023: One of the guys from KISS is a beacon of sanity:
And our “journalists” are signs of the decline of civilization:
I didn’t see that coming…
…more than about 30 years ago.
(Note to Soledad O’Brien: Your comparison would make sense if Paul Stanley’s parents had seen him at age six, standing in front of a mirror holding a tennis racket for a guitar, and hustled him into makeup and a leather pants suit).
Stanley never pretended to be a woman.
The stupidity level of our elites is off the scale.
Somehow I am reminded of “Bloom County” and the strip about the Banana Jr. 6000 computer. If you didn’t buy one for your child, they were going to end up wearing leather and fishnet stockings like Gene Simmons.
But that said, I think it speaks volumes that the lead singer of Kiss is telling the alphabet community that they’re so far out, it scares him because doing those things to kids violates his moral code.
As an observer of the KISS Army from its inception, I can assure you that none of their fans were experiencing gender dysphoria. If you wanted that, you had Bowie, Sweet, and/or the New York Dolls.
Soledad (b. 1966) is old enough to know this, by the way.
I think it was Auron MacIntyre who said something like, however much you hate the media, it’s not enough.
O’Brien has always been a shallow thinker who thinks she’s witty. As MP demonstrates she’s not very bright and not very funny either. Fortunately for her, her audience is just like her.
Driscoll at Instapundit luvs to post her “it takes a village” video (which I can’t find right now) and that probably reaches the upper echelons of her ability to think.
The members of KISS wearing stage makeup and costumes is more akin to Drag. When they aren’t performing, they still wear normal clothes.
To be analogous to gender transition surgery, they’d have to have their make-up permanently tattooed on their faces and only ever dress in costume.
Ms. O’Brien is even more vapid than Katie Couric.
I donno, D… androgeny yes, gender dysphoria? HELL NO! If that were so, then is Buster Pointdexter a man pretending to be a woman pretending to be a lounge lizard?
SSC, I want someone to tell Gene Simmons that he suffers from gender dysphoria and then see what happens.
I donno, D… androgeny yes, gender dysphoria? HELL NO! If that were so, then is Buster Pointdexter a man pretending to be a woman pretending to be a lounge lizard?
I always thought Poindexter was a man pretending to be a woman pretending to be a lounge lizard but unsure whether to be August Darnell or Bryan Ferry or Louis Prima.
I’m guessing, JPA, that it would be even more hilarious if you asked that question to Shannon Tweed.
I once read an rock-n-roll inside account that claimed that David Bowie (& Joan Jett) had purposely and deliberately began crafting the images that they would one day be known for in high school. They tried out various looks & personas and altered them based on feedback from their peers.
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Stanley is about to learn that Left religion has no concept of forgiveness.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1653459539117613057
Amy Klobuchar has introduced legislation to crack down on the import and trafficking of the kits used to convert a gun semi to full automatic.
Possession of a kitted out gun is already illegal, and this law is not enforced because it would put the wrong people in jail.