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Btw, returning to topic ... don't you think anyone should give Dylan a white Sisters sticker for his guitar ... ...
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Ben Christo wrote:Ace weekend playing Hills of Rock, Bulgaria! Blagodarya to such a great festival team & to all of you wonderful folk for making it so memorable.
With Gibson, Kemper Amps, PICKME-custom_DE & Rotosound Music Strings, playing my custom BC Firebird, created by 'Ravey' Dave Creffield.
#thesistersofmercy #sistersofmercy #thiscorrosion #templeoflove #lucretiamyreflection #floodland
Pic: the awesome Dimitar Aleksov Photography
— in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Ben Christo wrote: Ready to rock Rock Your Brain Festtonight, with my good man Sir Dylan Smith! #thesistersofmercy #sistersofmercy #lucretiamyreflection #floodland #visionthing #templeoflove with Gibson, Rotosound Music Strings & Kemper Amps. PIC: the brilliant Виктория Вучева
— in Sélestat.
Exactly. Like i say: pondlife. Veering towards actual human vermin at times. By no means all of that FB-SOM group are bad people but as you say; the idea that ANY fans of MY FAVOURITE BAND could be so .......CUNTISHLY IGNORANT makes me rather fuckking mad.Fallon wrote: ↑16 Oct 2023, 09:04 Given that the last thing the rather shameful "Do non-binary and/or non-confirming people exist and if so, are they human beings?" bad-faith 'debate' needs is another basically-white, basically-straight, basically-male person weighing in, I'll keep it fairly superficial:
Beats the absolute hell out of me how anybody could be a fan of The Sisters Of Mercy, or take even the most passing interest in Andrew Eldritch's perspective on things, or claim to 'get it' on any meaningful level at all, and still think that it's okay to query or concern oneself with another's gender identity beyond "I hope that person's gender identity makes them feel alright and happy and comfortable and I hope they're getting by".
But the other really silly thing about all this, is that I don't really think that Kai's look has anything to do with their sex or gender in the first place, beyond the fairly classic glam rock tradition of treating it like a playground to mess about in?
I'm not a fan of Esprit D'Air at all - I actually think they're quite dreadful, I'm sorry to say - but I did know that Kai was Japanese, and I did find them to be fairly recognisably participating in a movement called Visual Kei. That's a movement where individual mileage varies, but I became aware of it through my love of speed metal many years ago, because some of those Visual Kei bands (notably the famous X Japan) play a style of music I like.
Far be it from me to suggest that one can't be both visual kei and gender non-conforming/non-binary - indeed its a community which has long functioned as a safe haven for people who aren't your old-fashioned men-who-are-male and women-who-are-female - but I have to say, it genuinely never occurred to me that there was a conversation to be had about Kai's gender.
Wait till these folk learn that David Bowie was basically a bloke.
Lee, if there weren't a few dimbulbs kicking around, we'd be deprived of rants like the one above, so frankly I'm glad they're out thereeastmidswhizzkid wrote: ↑16 Oct 2023, 04:58 My Heartland and FB-SOM are diametrically opposed. as far apart as 2 things can be when they share & are joined by a common thing that both presumably recognise as being the thing it is but definitely would describe all and every thing aboiut that thing differently. When i say HL & FB-SOM i mean of course the section of the Sisters fanbase indiginous to each place. HL is to FB-SOM what The Sisters are to ....everyone else. ok, bad analogy...
We're the Camambert to their knob cheese. We're the 24 hour orgy of Sex n Drugs n Rock n Roll to their 2 minute shame-wank listening to the shipping forecast on a broken AM radio with a bent aerial and dying batteries. We are the Holiday Of A Lifetime on a seductive Pacific island to their being fitted-up with a suitcase full of smack at bangkok airport and finding yourself on deathrow in a Thai jail.
We are the Miracle of Existence in all its beauty and wonder to their uncooked shellfish piella followed by s**t your guts out for 3 hours whilst simultaneously spewing up anything that hits your stomach, so you end up torn between the agony of vomitting non-stop or not drinking water and therefore dry-retching in agonising and endless misery. you get the picture.
I'm a member of the FB group too Lee. Though I contemplated leaving it yesterday. Some of the comments about Kai were deplorableeastmidswhizzkid wrote: ↑16 Oct 2023, 09:41 fair enough, but i can rant until the verry stars burn out and not have to interact with amoeba. I use twatter a lot (footy manily) so lesser pondlife on FB are a doddle ...but Sisters pondlife???? shudder!
i'm sort of enjoying snaring the bigots and dragging them out into the glare of their peer-groups disdain.Gothicbiff wrote: ↑16 Oct 2023, 11:34I'm a member of the FB group too Lee. Though I contemplated leaving it yesterday. Some of the comments about Kai were deplorableeastmidswhizzkid wrote: ↑16 Oct 2023, 09:41 fair enough, but i can rant until the verry stars burn out and not have to interact with amoeba. I use twatter a lot (footy manily) so lesser pondlife on FB are a doddle ...but Sisters pondlife???? shudder!
... ...eastmidswhizzkid wrote: ↑16 Oct 2023, 11:49i'm sort of enjoying snaring the bigots and dragging them out into the glare of their peer-groups disdain.Gothicbiff wrote: ↑16 Oct 2023, 11:34I'm a member of the FB group too Lee. Though I contemplated leaving it yesterday. Some of the comments about Kai were deplorableeastmidswhizzkid wrote: ↑16 Oct 2023, 09:41 fair enough, but i can rant until the verry stars burn out and not have to interact with amoeba. I use twatter a lot (footy manily) so lesser pondlife on FB are a doddle ...but Sisters pondlife???? shudder!
i just posted "i dont care what gender Kai is but i would be on it like a car bomnnet -hot as f**k! "
that will disturb a few i think.