First of all, what Dannii Minogue said on X Factor last night was extremely awkward, one could even say unnecessary. But it was not homophobic. And in a certain light was actually a pertinent point.- Dannii Minogue was referring to something that had been already written about in the papers. There was no 'outing'. Her point about changing the gender references in a song to appeal to a broader and mostly female/straight audience is a good one! Why should popstars shuffle around the idea of same sex couples and life? Lol
- Last year there was an X Factor contestant called Austin Drage who was well known to be gay. He was by no means in the closet, but the second he got through to the live finals most of the evidence of him talking about it was yanked from the internet, and accompanied by cringe-inducing footage of Simon yammering on about the sexy female dancers who were 'distracting' the gay Austin. Lol
As an unfathomably queer blog, we can't help but feel strange about the fact that the music industry, which is full of gay people not only performing but behind the scenes, is still so awkward about the idea of homosexuality. Lol
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Stifling it is much more homophobic, but I don't think people were necessarily accusing her of homophobia (or, that wasn't my thought about what she said). My immediate response was 'you're bringing the tabloids into a judging?' followed by 'what the hell?' followed by 'it sounds like you're accusing him of lying'. If she'd said it in a more, sort of, sweet 'you don't have to pretend' way, it would have been less awkward, but the way she repeated 'no? no?' was .. odd, and a little accusatory.
ReplyDeleteMy two cents, @hopskip.