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   Chronic-Yonic :flag_lesbian: (chronic-yonic@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 28-Apr-2025 20:51:42 JST Chronic-Yonic :flag_lesbian:

   And this is wrong how, exactly, George?

   Which is...

   ...true, George. You weren't a terrific student in biology class, were you?

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     EatKnitSleep (eatknitsleepagain@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 28-Apr-2025 20:51:41 JST EatKnitSleep

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     @Chronic-Yonic Let's not forget who George really is.
     
     'Boy George was today sentenced to 15 months in jail for falsely imprisoning a male escort by handcuffing him to a wall and beating him with a metal chain.'
     
     https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/jan/16/boy-george-sentenced-handcuffing-male-escort
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     KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 28-Apr-2025 20:57:55 JST KeepTakingTheSoma

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     @EatKnitSleepAgain @Chronic-Yonic I know this article is over 10 years old.
     
     I used to admire him, and others in the 1980s, for confronting norms of dress. We all knew he was a man, but plenty of girls dressed like him. It was fine. We enjoyed it. Being gay in the 1980s became less and less of a *thing* with every day that passed.
     
     I wonder if people who like to wear their identity as a proxy for character, especially one which at one point felt like a forbidden or oppressed one, have a tendency to feel invincible by virtue of their perceived victimhood. It seems to be a trend among the *most marginalised* groups.
     Just a thought.
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     Chronic-Yonic :flag_lesbian: (chronic-yonic@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 28-Apr-2025 20:58:20 JST Chronic-Yonic :flag_lesbian:

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     @EatKnitSleepAgain Oh yeah, I remember that. A fucking perv, George is. No wonder he defends troons, they have a lot in common.

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     EatKnitSleep (eatknitsleepagain@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 28-Apr-2025 20:58:28 JST EatKnitSleep

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     @Chronic-Yonic Bullying women on the internet is such an easy way for men like him to look kind without actually being kind. Said exactly the same thing yesterday about Neil Gaiman, who has also tweeted about JKR being awful just for giving a shit about women.
     
     I'm coming to the conclusion that if a man with a high profile attacks JKR online, he's probably abused someone IRL. Maybe their publicists/managers tell them to do it as an easy piece of reputation repair?
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     KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 28-Apr-2025 20:58:47 JST KeepTakingTheSoma

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     @EatKnitSleepAgain @Chronic-Yonic Words are cheap.
     Deeds come at a cost.
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     HebrideanHecate (hebrideanhecate@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 28-Apr-2025 21:08:46 JST HebrideanHecate

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     @Chronic-Yonic @EatKnitSleepAgain He gets very angry with anyone who brings that up and goes on a mad blocking spree, apparently!

     God, my mother loathed him, she used to start muttering about creeps and perverts when he came on TV 😆

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     KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 28-Apr-2025 21:10:55 JST KeepTakingTheSoma

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     @HebrideanHecate @Chronic-Yonic @EatKnitSleepAgain My parents just laughed and rolled their eyes at some of the worst excesses of 1980s Top of the Pops. For them, it had all been done before in the 60s and 70s. We all know a fashion fad when we see it.
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     HebrideanHecate (hebrideanhecate@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 28-Apr-2025 21:20:41 JST HebrideanHecate

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     @KeepTakingTheSoma @Chronic-Yonic @EatKnitSleepAgain I think her 6th sense was pinging about him.

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     HebrideanHecate (hebrideanhecate@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 28-Apr-2025 21:20:41 JST HebrideanHecate

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     @KeepTakingTheSoma @Chronic-Yonic @EatKnitSleepAgain Because she thought Adam Ant was astonishingly good looking, his outre look didn't bother her.

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     KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 28-Apr-2025 21:21:01 JST KeepTakingTheSoma

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     @HebrideanHecate @Chronic-Yonic @EatKnitSleepAgain I had a boyfriend who dressed like Adam Ant.