Against Me! - New Wave

"WHUT" is a perfectly understandable instant reaction for straight white dudes with little tg experience who barely dug to the Against Me albums they loved so much (hell, I'm basically one). Posting your instant reaction on a semi-professional news website is less so.

Yeah, I think that's my main problem with that post - even if your reaction is "WHUT" it isn't an appropriate way of writing about it.

yeah i mean i shared the link with just a "!" because i was surprised by the news but didn't want to try expressing that surprise in words bcz i knew there was no way to do it well

i guess breihan didn't have that compunction

bcz i knew there was no way

do it well

How nice that selling out enables her to afford such an elaborate operation.

My excuse for missing the heads-up in "The Ocean" is that, the way New Wave is paced, I'm done by "Americans Abroad."

if you save up long enough, maybe you can get an operation that allows you to go fuck yourself

xp

Also "Born On The FM Waves" is one of the awesomest songs of the 2000's.

xp I meant that in the most supportive way possible while still frustrated at my own uninsured situation..

her inimitable bleat of a voice.
her inimitable bleat of a voice.
her inimitable bleat of a voice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_0mDkN-TB4

people are apparently really having trouble expressing their support without coming off as total d-bags!

Stereogum dude is more of a d-bag than me. I'm happy for Tom Gabel and I'm not sure why I immediately thought of health insurance.

esp when you presumably don't know what his situation is, aside from being an ex-sire recording artist

How nice that selling out enables her to afford such an elaborate operation.

There wasn't any mention of surgery. Just female hormones and electrolysis.

my mistake! i take it back.

i def hear the uninsured concern

health insurance rarely pays for sex change operations

my city's health plan started paying for those a decade ago for city employees

but you live in San Francisco. That's not typical at all.

i'm curious whether they pay for cosmetic surgeries as well (which many might argue this is)

what's up poliopolice

Ah shit, yeah, I didn't even think of the American thing. Over here you can get operations on the NHS if you've lived as the other gender for about three years. Though apparently the process can be incredibly frustrating.

unfamiliar w/ band, but looks like he was a cute boy so pourin' one out.

inimitable bleat of a voice

she was, sorry

xp

this is the first cool thing about against me, that's for sure

good for her!

oh m@tt when will you know the joys of Reinventing Axl Rose

I think this is awesome.

Over here you can get operations on the NHS if you've lived as the other gender for about three years.

honest question: how do you prove this?

you show your paystubs

I would recommend reading the columns A Transgender Journey by Juliet Jacques - it's a personal account, and obviously people have different experiences, but it's very well written and covers a lot of the bases of what you need to go through.

trying to recall the last time someone's music career was damaged by coming out of the closet

How's Ricky Martin these days?

Clay Aiken doing OK? I think so, right?

Martin came out in 2010 (way later than he should have imho) well after his career had peaked and he'd basically retired.

Aiken's on Broadway iirc, where they don't tolerate homosexuals

Martin's coming out so late into his career slough is precisely what was wrong.

how about the village people?

what about them?

what's up Poliopolice

were they ever even IN the closet to begin with? that was 35 years ago, and even 5 yo me knew they were gay.

Martin's coming out so late into his career slough is precisely what was wrong.

yeah his gay following was huge, I doubt it would have damaged his career to come out sooner - probably would have boosted it tbh

Hey Dayo! How's it hanging?

Ted Haggard seems to have lost a lot of followers

unfamiliar w/ band, but looks like he was a cute boy so pourin' one out.

Hate to admit it, but this was sort of my first thought too.

and how was Ted Haggard's music career going pre-outing?

That photo of Tom and his wife is cuet.

How's Ricky Martin these days?

― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Thursday, May 10, 2012 7:25 AM Bookmark

his album last year debuted at #3, so quite alright

my co-columnist at the voice actually wrote something pretty informative recently about how no out gay artist has never had a #1 album in the US: http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2012/05/adam_lambert_gay_pop_star.php

stop dividing the LBGT community by preferring Rufus Wainwright's music, ship!

interesting piece (i'm not finished with it yet) but that little factoid kinda says more about how charts are weird than about homophobia in the record-buying public imho

lol alfred