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| The U2 singer seems to have missed what happened for women in 2017 | |
| Sun 31 Dec 2017 00.05 GMT | |
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| U2’s Bono has been criticised for telling Rolling Stone magazine that rock music has become “too girly”. In fairness, Bono wasn’t decrying female musicians per se – it was more a comment on how youthful “rage” was his creative fuel. However, he perhaps needs to stop describing what sounds like being driven, or politicised, as “rage” – in this climate, privileged white men “raging” isn’t a great look. | U2’s Bono has been criticised for telling Rolling Stone magazine that rock music has become “too girly”. In fairness, Bono wasn’t decrying female musicians per se – it was more a comment on how youthful “rage” was his creative fuel. However, he perhaps needs to stop describing what sounds like being driven, or politicised, as “rage” – in this climate, privileged white men “raging” isn’t a great look. |
| Moreover, the way Bono deploys it, “girly” becomes synonymous with inferior and weak, just as that tedious sub-playground craze for calling people and things “gay” suggested that homosexuality was inferior and weak. And just as Lewis Hamilton mocking his young nephew for wearing a princess dress (Hamilton has since apologised) displayed an attitude that any male wearing female clothing was… you guessed it, inferior and weak. | Moreover, the way Bono deploys it, “girly” becomes synonymous with inferior and weak, just as that tedious sub-playground craze for calling people and things “gay” suggested that homosexuality was inferior and weak. And just as Lewis Hamilton mocking his young nephew for wearing a princess dress (Hamilton has since apologised) displayed an attitude that any male wearing female clothing was… you guessed it, inferior and weak. |
| Finally, if Bono thinks “girlies” (musicians, actors or anyone else) haven’t been all about the “rage” this year, then where has he and his fly shades been, post-Weinstein? All over the arts and beyond, in 2017 women have given men masterclasses in the kind of righteous rage that doesn’t require a drum roll for introduction. | Finally, if Bono thinks “girlies” (musicians, actors or anyone else) haven’t been all about the “rage” this year, then where has he and his fly shades been, post-Weinstein? All over the arts and beyond, in 2017 women have given men masterclasses in the kind of righteous rage that doesn’t require a drum roll for introduction. |
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