Anyone listening to Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers? CW: on that bad boy, lots of use of transphobic/misogynistic language, discussion of sexual assault and violence, inter-familial violence, etc.
My (cishet white male) comrade friends (also cishet white guys) and I have been thinking about the album since it came out. Personally, I think he wrote that song to express to transphobes (possibly it's particular expression in parts of the black community where perhaps the f slur is more common than the circles I'm personally in?) that trans people are people by contrasting his prior dehumanization of them in deadnaming, misgendering, dropping the f slur, and not truly thinking of them as their actual (not birth) gender. I'm pretty sure he became a Christian in the last few years, which I think explains the particular importance of choosing his trans family members over organized religion. Idk. I wanted to talk about the album because I like what I think he's doing, trying to humanize people in an age where dehumanization is always easier to communicate, but my friends and I might also be reading too much of our own abolitionist perspectives into this rather complex, deeply personal work. I don't think he's trying to be transphobic or homophobic, but it's also not music I would play around people that might be hurt by it, y'know? Just like I'm not going to bump We Cry Together at a stoplight.
Anyone listening to Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers? CW: on that bad boy, lots of use of transphobic/misogynistic language, discussion of sexual assault and violence, inter-familial violence, etc.
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My (cishet white male) comrade friends (also cishet white guys) and I have been thinking about the album since it came out. Personally, I think he wrote that song to express to transphobes (possibly it's particular expression in parts of the black community where perhaps the f slur is more common than the circles I'm personally in?) that trans people are people by contrasting his prior dehumanization of them in deadnaming, misgendering, dropping the f slur, and not truly thinking of them as their actual (not birth) gender. I'm pretty sure he became a Christian in the last few years, which I think explains the particular importance of choosing his trans family members over organized religion. Idk. I wanted to talk about the album because I like what I think he's doing, trying to humanize people in an age where dehumanization is always easier to communicate, but my friends and I might also be reading too much of our own abolitionist perspectives into this rather complex, deeply personal work. I don't think he's trying to be transphobic or homophobic, but it's also not music I would play around people that might be hurt by it, y'know? Just like I'm not going to bump We Cry Together at a stoplight.