That answer is ‘no.’
The song A Natural Woman by Aretha Franklin is being bashed by LGBTQ critics as ‘offensive,’ with one organization in particular saying the tune helps perpetuate harmful anti-trans stereotypes.
It’s a song. It’s a classic. If people are offended, then that is their choice. To demand that it be banned is a step too far. Although, we are already a march too far with this stuff. Time for a fightback before it is too late. Time to start saying ‘no’ and mean it.
Leading the charge to have the song nixed is the Norway-based Trans Cultural Mindfulness Alliance (TCMA), a group that started formed earlier this year and has since made its presence known with a series of polarizing posts on social media.
Just tell them to fuck off. What can they do if everyone tells them where to go? Refusal is a powerful tool. Remember, these maniacs are the minority, so telling them to fuck off won’t affect the bottom line.
In the time since, statements made by the organization – which seeks to open a chapter ‘in each European country and North America’ – have spawned outrage, including its January 20 request to pull Franklin’s song from streaming platforms like Spotify and Apple Music.
Okay, it’s a request, not a demand, which is a change. The appropriate response being: ‘Thankyou for your request,. Having given it due consideration. No. Now jog on.’
‘There is no such thing as a “natural” woman,’ the organization went on to declare, before claiming the song has already ‘helped inspire acts of harm against transgender women.’
Name them. Each and every incident. Go on. And, yes, there is such a thing as a natural women. She has XX chromosomes and primary and secondary female sexual characteristics.
Apparently this group isn’t a parody, even if it does seem that way. The tolerance towards this behaviour needs to come to a swift end. Every demand, every request, needs to be met with a firm refusal. It’s the only way it will stop.
As I mentioned on another post recently. Tim Pool has been discussing the old ‘date me or you’re transphobic’ nonsense. These people want to deny us our own choices.
For the record, I will never date a trans person. This is because sexuality is immutable. I am attracted to women. Not blokes and that is what a transwoman is – a bloke. Women don’t have penises and I am not, under any circumstances going to date one. Ever.
Yet another circumstance where the most useful reply’s second word is “off”.
How long before Helen Reddy’s “I am woman” is in their sights?
Don’t give ’em ideas.
They’ll go for Santana first, with “Black Magic Woman”
Hits the racism card as well.
Black Magic Woman is a Fleetwood Mac song, written by Peter Green.
Didn’t know the Santana song was a cover.
You learn something every day.
Early Fleetwood Mac.
I just popped over to Spotify and added the song to my playlist. If enough people do that I think that it will send a fairly unambiguous message.
That’s an answer, of course.
Now that’s a bloody good idea!
Many people think this is a very good parody account, and that could still turn out to be true. Either way, it helps highlight the utter madness of the trans activist movement
I know. It has the hallmarks of a parody, but Poe’s law applies.
Speaking of Spotify and bansturbation in general, I see that all of Joni Mitchell’s stuff is still available there. I seem to recall that she was going to pull all of her music from the platform if they didn’t pull some song that she had decided to take offence at. So, is she full of crap and had no intention of following through with her threat? Or, did she find that once the rights to stream the songs had been signed over she couldn’t legally take them back again?
Wasn’t that the Joe Rogan podcast she was objecting to? Along with that twat Neil Young.
Neil Young’s stuff is still there as well, I just checked.
I get fed up by the interuptions while I am liustening to these so didn’t watch it all the way through.
However,my view is simple. I can accept something. I may not like it and not want to do it myself nor would I campaign to have them banned because I don’t like it..
I see fluorescent green, pink, yellow cars. I accept them. Don’t like them so I won’t have one.
I see people having tattoos. I accept them. I don’t like them so I won’t have one.
I see a gay person. I accept them. I am indifferent to them. I don’t want to be one myself and won’t go out with one.
Why don’t they understand that acceptance does not mean participation?
Because they don’t want acceptance. They want submission.
There are some real women I wouldn’t want to “date”. Telling me I’m transphobic because I’ve added pretend women to the list of people don’t want to “date” is ridiculous.
‘Mindfulness Alliance’ is presumably the new term for Thought Police. O’Brien would be so proud!
Dear Mr Longrider
The lyrics are here:
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/arethafranklin/youmakemefeellikeanaturalwoman.html
The poof, fagott, fairy, pansy, ponce and “Somdomite” bansturbaters have had a go at The Pogues’ Fairytale Of New York, said nobodies objecting to the f-word in the late Kirsty MacColl’s lines:
You scumbag, you maggot
You cheap, lousy faggot
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/pogues/fairytaleofnewyork.html
A while back Mr Alexander presented the top 30 Christmas songs with The Pogues’ offering at number 3. The f-word was deleted.
Pointless.
DP