Posted on 08/25/2023 6:43:00 PM PDT by DoodleBob
In the wake of his comments about transgender people, rock singer Alice Cooper has lost a sponsorship deal with a cosmetics company. It is common knowledge that the 75-year-old, also known by his given name, Vincent Damon Furnier, is best known for his signature black eye makeup, flamboyant costumes, and horror-themed props such as fake blood and guillotines. There was a plan for him to collaborate with Vampyre Cosmetics on a makeup collection named after him, but the company dropped him due to comments he made in an interview with the music website Stereogum, which led to a fallout between the two parties.
"In light of recent statements by Alice Cooper we will no longer be doing a makeup collaboration. We stand with all members of the LGBTQIA+ community and believe everyone should have access to healthcare. All pre-order sales will be refunded," Vampyre Cosmetics posted on its official Instagram page. As part of the interview, per Rolling Stone, Cooper was asked to elaborate on his thoughts regarding gender and sexuality in light of the fact that he had made some fairly progressive statements about bisexuality and pansexuality in 1974. "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," he 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 telling him, 'Yeah, you're a boy, but you could be a girl if you want to be.'"
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Vampyre Cosmetics (@vampyrecosmetics) Cooper expressed concern about unidentified factors exerting pressure on kids or adolescents, adding, "You're still trying to find your identity, and yet here's this going on, saying, 'Yeah, but you can be anything you want. You can be a cat if you want to be." He added later: "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. 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. OK, so that's a fact. You have these things here. Now, the difference is you want to be a female. OK, that's something you can do later on if you want to. But you're not a male born a female." "I find it wrong when you've got a 6-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,'" he said in the interview. "I mean, if you identify as a tree ... 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."
After Cooper's comments regarding trans kids and their parents, the interviewer pushed back on Cooper's statements, arguing that parents were trying to listen to their children and find doctors who would be able to provide them with appropriate care, not encouraging doubt in them. Unfortunately, Cooper's response about bathrooms was one of the classic talking points. "Well, I can see somebody really taking advantage of this, though," he said. "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?"
While these myths about 'bathroom predators' have been comprehensively debunked, an increasing number of anti-trans bathroom laws are coming into effect, said to put transgender people at more risk of harm. The "School's Out" singer hasn't been the only rocker sharing anti-trans sentiments recently. It was reported in May that Kiss guitarist Paul Stanley called gender-affirming care a "sad and dangerous fad," making similar statements to Cooper's about children "playing" with gender instead of understanding their own identities. In response to Stanley's comments, Twisted Sister lead singer Dee Snider said, "there was a time where I 'felt pretty' too. Glad my parents didn't jump to any rash conclusions." Since then, both artists have retracted their comments.
The song “School’s Out for Summer” came out when I was 12. It became mandatory to play it before every single summer after that. I’ll have to ask my Grandson if he’s heard of it.
Another song of his I really loved was “Only Women Bleed”. He should do a re-release of that one!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIrI0MPBUic
“Vampyre Cosmetics”
Well I guess that nobody can boycott them if nobody uses them.
Alice Cooper is a Christian
Got Santana to say he’s sorry. At their age they should have nothing to apologize for.
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So true why kiss ass in your 70’s?? Especially when you are well off.
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That cosmetics firm will go bust before Alice.
Just saw him here at our beautiful Palace Theater in Louisville KY May 10. It was just like you said, filled the theater with fans of all ages. Funnily enough, Christian rock band STRYPER was playing at the Mercury Ballroom next door at the same time (traffic was fun lol) Before that, we saw him at Louder than Life festival last Sept. He also just released a new studio album just yesterday, 'Road'
A guy that calls himself “Alice” is not a serious person.
Alice is his stage name.
Like Meat Loaf.
Like John Paul Jones.
Like Ringo.
Like Prince.
Like Bob Dylan.
Like Newtoidaho and DoodleBob.
They are not owned by vampires? Cultural appropriation.
We stand with all members of the LGBTQIA+ community and believe everyone should have access to healthcare.
It's not access to healthcare , its access to "Your Children", that they are after...
"Sounds like in FR terms she was “not guilty” LOL"
Sounds like "Miss Crabtree", in the "Little Rascals"
Hey capydick, which one were you?
One of his best…
You’re something that never should have happened
You even make your grandma sick
You’d poison a blind man’s dog and steal his cane
You’d gift-wrap a leper and mail him to your aunt Jane
You’d even force-feed a diabetic a candy cane
You can go to hell
75-year-old Alice could set a bag of his own feces on fire in front of the White House and he would still sell out 15,000-seaters. I’m not entirely too sure he didn’t do this on purpose, hell one of the backdrops is “Banned In Texas!”
Alice will get the last laugh at the great white throne judgement.
He knows God is listening.
You need never worry about that.
Most of his fortune comes from real estate investments.
Hell be just fine.
They underestimate the devotion of Alice’s Sick Things.
They’ll come to regret this.
They want everyone to “express their truth “ unless it conflicts with their demonic agenda.
Funny they announced this on their FB page.
Dumb idea, that.
On Alice’s FB page a poster said “y’all ain’t canceling Alice Cooper. Sorry. :D” and to that someone else replied “Only women bleed”.
Alice is fine.
Like Iggy Pop…or Salamander.
The name change was a business branding move, and a smart one at that.
I lost a lot of my vintage AC concert tees in the house fire, amongst them, three Alice Cooper Goes To Hell shirts.
People kept telling me “ you should be grateful you got out alive” but the fire was fairly contained and none of us was in mortal peril.
I still mourn the loss of my tees that I’ll never be able to afford to replace.
The records of my life and everything I’ve ever been was up in that room.
Man sorry to hear about that. I have an old Welcome to My Nightmare shirt but I foolishly wore the heck out of it back when I was stoOpid. Ain’t worth a nickel now except to me. I too lost a bunch of albums but it was during a move from Hawaii back to Ohio. Back then I just re-upped my Columbia House record subscription and got 12 new albums for a dollar, 😆!!
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