After calling transgenderism a “fad,” rock icon Alice Cooper was given the boot by a cosmetics brand that markets spooky and gothic-themed makeup.
The 75-year-old rocker’s comments were made during an interview Wednesday with the music site Stereogum.
When Cooper was asked as someone who has played around with gender expectations early on about some of the comments his “theatrical” rock peers like Paul Stanley and Dee Snider have made about gender-affirming care for kids, Cooper said the woke’s obsession with the topic has gotten out of control to the point of being “laughable.”
Transgender Talk Confusing for Youngsters
“…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. “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 [by] telling him, ‘Yeah, you’re a boy, but you could be a girl if you want to be.'”Cooper continued:
“I think that’s so confusing to a kid. It’s even confusing to a teenager. You’re still trying to find your identity, and yet here’s this thing going on, saying, ‘Yeah, but you can be anything you want. You can be a cat if you want to be.’ I mean, if you identify as a tree… And I’m going, ‘Come on! What are we in, a Kurt Vonnegut novel?’ It’s so absurd, that it’s gone now to the point of absurdity.”
The rock legend and devout Christian, whose hits include “School’s Out” and “Welcome to My Nightmare,” had his brand partnership deal with Vampyre Cosmetics canceled, according to a New York Post story. The company sells its products in 130 stores, mostly concentrated in the New Orleans area.
“In light of recent statements by Alice Cooper, we will no longer be doing a makeup collaboration,” the company wrote on Instagram in announcing it was cutting ties with Cooper over his comments.
Who’s Making the Rules?
In this week’s interview, Cooper also criticized “the whole woke thing,” asking, “Who’s making the rules? Is there a building somewhere in New York where people sit down every day and say, “Okay, we can’t say ‘mother’ now. We have to say ‘birthing person.’ Get that out on the wire right now. Who is this person that’s making these rules? I don’t get it. I’m not being old-school about it. I’m being logical about it.”Desire for Gender Non-Conformity Has Reached Laughable Level
He said the desire to “respect” others’ gender non-conformity has gone too far.“It’s getting to the point now where it’s laughable. If anybody was trying to make a point on this thing, they turned it into a huge comedy…” he said. “…I respect people and who they are, but I’m not going to tell a seven-year-old boy, ‘Go put a dress on because maybe you’re a girl,’ and he’s going, ‘No, I’m not. I’m a boy.’”
Cooper said that biological reality is a fact that cannot be rationalized away.
“So I say let somebody at least become sexually aware of who they are before they start thinking about if they’re a boy or a girl. A lot of times, I look at it this way, the logical way: If you have these genitals, you’re a boy. If you have those genitals, you’re a girl,” Cooper said. “There’s a difference between “I am a male who is a female, or I’m a female that’s a male” and wanting to be a female. You were born a male. Okay, so that’s a fact. You have these things here.”
He also noted how the situation will soon spiral out of control, with women getting hurt in the process.
“A guy can walk into a woman’s bathroom at any time and just say, ‘I just feel like I’m a woman today’ and have the time of his life in there, and he’s not in the least bit… He’s just taking advantage of that situation. Well, that’s going to happen. Somebody’s going to get raped, and the guy’s going to say, ‘Well, I felt like a girl that day, and then I felt like a guy.’ Where do you draw this line?”
