• hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      Genuinely finding out about her for the first time from here. What kind of loser do you have to be to keep up with pop culture this much out of sheer hate of trans people?

    • Kuori [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      lol ah of course he was being transphobic. i was seriously sitting here going "uhhhh a white dude named kim? that's rough stuff buddy"

        • Kuori [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          i'm extremely guilty as charged, actually tbh i don't really pay a whole lot of attention to the music world in general. i just put on my lo-fi doot doots and call it a day. :blob-no-thoughts:

          can't lie though, learning about this girl via benny boy getting super mad about her racking up a win is pretty good and i'm feeling pretty validated in my choices

        • Kuori [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          yeah that's also totally fair. i had heard enough about sam smith in passing to be relatively sure they were white (e: a comrade has informed me they are nonbinary, my b) but this tweet was literally my intro to kim petras lol

          • emizeko [they/them]
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            2 years ago

            he's promoting her either intentionally or unintentionally, hard not to wonder if there's a way to hire Ben Shapiro to hate you as a way of marketing yourself. not that I really suspect that here, but it's an untapped market and we know what happens to those

            • Kuori [she/her]
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              2 years ago

              REAL shapiroheads know he's available to anyone who can afford his rates (as this is the only fair way to determine who is in need of a service, of course) HOWEVER he demands contract negotiations take the form of a formalized debate

              you are required to participate if you want him to work his magic.

    • TillieNeuen [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Ah. I'd never heard of Kim Petras before, so I didn't even pick up on the misgendering. I was thinking more about why Ben made a point of saying they're white.