"Goddess Energy", my hat
Boy George was once a pioneer of gender non-conformity. Together with Steve Strange, Marylin and the other ‘Blitz kids’ of the New Romantic crowd, he was at the forefront of a pop culture that subverted gender norms, eschewed traditional masculinity and was characterised by an uber-glamourous and lavish style of dress.
These days he’s become the absolute epitome of male entitlement, sneering at and dictating to women.
Earlier in the week, he made a snarky remark about JK Rowling, apparently referencing her courageous stance against gender ideology. He then demonstrated some Olympic level doubling-down when people tried to explain to him that women are perfectly entitled and have every reason to defend our sex-based rights and spaces.
His response was depressingly familiar. Women should be ‘kind’, he decreed. That’s how he likes them.
And, of course, when women tried to explain the issues to him, instead of listening, he determined they were ‘talking absolute tripe’.
He also made this jaw-dropping pronouncement; that trans women are not a threat to women or female spaces.
George, ‘trans women’ (or trans-identified males as we more accurately describe them on this site) are not just a ‘threat’ to female spaces, they eradicate them with their presence. Because a male, even one in a dress, is not female. You of all people should know that.
His comment about ‘goddess energy’ would be absolutely hilarious were it not indicative of all the weary tropes that men (and, sadly, some women) impose upon us to define our womanhood. It’s a ‘feeling’, it’s having a ‘female soul’, it’s femininity, it’s being submissive and now, apparently, it’s ‘goddess energy’.
I suspect George’s goddess, a far cry from the Venus of Willendorf (above), is an overtly glamourous creature, high-heeled, rouged, manicured and perfectly coiffured. It’s a safe bet that when he says ‘goddess energy’, he really means adherence to stereotypical femininity. That’s how George seems to define womanhood. How incredibly sad that a once-iconic trailblazer of gender non-conformity is now upholding the very stereotypes he once defied.
He talks loftily of ‘critical thinking’ but I doubt George has ever given a moment’s thought to the basis of female oppression. The women and girls who die in menstruation huts, who are raped, who are forced into sexual slavery, who suffer domestic violence, who are forced into child marriage, who die in childbirth, who are denied education and independence, who are trafficked and prostituted, who suffer FGM… Their fate is the result of being born female into a society controlled by and for men. It has nothing to do with ‘goddess energy’.
Being a woman is a biological reality.
As for George’s breath-taking assertion that ‘trans people are not a threat to women’, it demonstrates very clearly that, like so many men who wade into this debate, he hasn’t bothered to acquaint himself with even the most basic facts.
Women should never have to justify our need for female-only spaces but, were reason required, protecting ourselves from male violence is more than sufficient. Men, as a class, pose a threat to women, as a class. That is an unequivocal fact and male offending patterns are not altered by ‘gender identity’.
Men are a risk to women and, however they ‘identify, it’s impossible to tell which are harmless and which are not. So basic safeguarding means we exclude all males from women’s spaces. George and his woke-bros may call that ‘unkind’ but, by doing so, they reveal their contempt for women’s safety and women’s boundaries.
George, would you care to cast your eye over this list and explain how, exactly, Karen White, Katie Dolatowski, Jessica Winfield, Tara Desousa, Janiah Monroe, Kristen Lukess, Lisa Hauxwell, Laken McKay, Aliea Rose Brown, Paula Witherspoon, Davina Ayrton, Johanna Wolf, Marie Dean, Rachel Smith, Jessica Brennan, Paris Bregazzi, Chloe Thompson, Rachelle Mikhnevich, Christopher Hanbrook, Marcia Walker, Denen Anderson, Michelle Winter, Melissa Wilson, Barbie Kardashian, Jessica Smith, Kadence Pinder, Beth Hannay, Leah Harvey, Julie Marshall, Sherry Dawn Barrett, Blaine Maney, Amber Thorden, Wolfgang Schmidt, Jorven Seren, Magdala Johannson, Steven Hayes, Jacinta Brooks, Alexander Eshawn Lions, Ashley Winter, Dakota Nieves, Steph Ricciardi, Vicky Green, Ella Davies, Melissa Adis, Madilyn Harks, Jessica Marie Hann, Michelle Martinez, Nicole Summers, Shauna Patricia Smith, Tanner Young, Synthia China Blast, Allison Woolbert, Nur Ahmed, Vyvyenne Ward, Chloe Thompson, Laura McCann, Lisa Jones, Claire Goodier et al are ‘carrying themselves with grace’ and showing ‘respect for the goddess energy’?
Final word to Marilyn. Unlike George, he understands how to truly defy gender norms.
That picture above - He is turning into Boy George Galloway.
Brilliant riposte from Marilyn!! "coming from someone who dresses like Widow Twanky" 😂😂😂